Canada’s C-11 Bill and the Hazards of Digital Locks Provisions
While copyright owners claim that they need anti-circumvention laws to address copyright infringement, twelve years’ experience with the U.S. DMCA provisions demonstrates that overbroad digital locks laws can wreak havoc on lawful, non copyright-infringing activities, stifle free speech and scientific research, and harm innovation and competition. The issue is that...
EFF Urges Court to Reject Record Labels' Effort to Rewrite Copyright Law
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of libraries and public interest groups have asked an appeals court to affirm the downsized copyright damage award in Capitol v. Thomas-Rasset – the first individual file-sharing case to go to trial.
Juries in this long-running case have...
Don’t Let the U.S. Pressure Canada into Repeating The Same Mistakes
In countries across the world, content copyright industries have been lobbying for laws that would break the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement. Such regulations could terminate user access to the Internet on an allegation of copyright infringement, enact website blocking powers that would make parts of the global...
The Heartbreaking Truth About Online Dating Privacy
Hey OkCupid – How about some SSL Love?
For the hundreds of thousands of users searching for that special someone through one of the largest free online dating sites, the love fest may be coming to an end. OkCupid is putting users’ privacy in danger by failing to support secure access to its entire website through HTTPS. Every...
Comparing Privacy and Security Practices on Online Dating Sites
Concerned about your privacy when you use online dating sites? You should be. We recently examined 8 popular online dating sites to see how well they were safeguarding user privacy through the use of standard encryption practices. We found that the majority of the sites we examined did not take...
Six Heartbreaking Truths about Online Dating Privacy
Millions of people are using online dating sites to search for love or connection, but users should beware: many online dating sites are taking short cuts in safeguarding the privacy and security of users. Whether it’s due to counter-intuitive privacy settings or serious security flaws, users of online dating profiles...
EFF's 22nd Birthday Bash Sponsored by Humble Bundle
Mark your calendar for the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual birthday bash! Join us Thursday, March 8, for live music, socializing, and fun to celebrate 22 incredible years of defending digital civil liberties. Reunite with EFF community members, and meet supporters who are passionate about free speech, tech innovation, and...
A Better Path for Apps: Respecting Users and Their Privacy
Earlier this week, a Singapore-based iOS software developer made a startling discovery while working with the popular social-networking app Path: in the course of every new account creation, Path uploads the new user’s entire iPhone address book to their servers. To its credit, Path responded quickly, with its CEO...
India’s Downward Spiral
How India is losing its footing on free expression.
The world’s biggest democracy is a formidable power in the IT sector. With software exports comprising approximately ten percent of India’s total GDP and a technology sector that employs more than 2.5 million people, India is poised to become a...
