Join EFF in Demanding a Digital Upgrade to 25-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Law
The year was 1986. Top Gun was the top movie, Super Mario Bros. 2 was the hot videogame, practically no one had ever heard of email, and mobile phones were clunky and expensive novelties the size of a brick.
On October 21st of that year, the President signed...
Announcing the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
Righthaven's Losing Streak Continues in Colorado
In what is becoming a well-settled pattern, Righthaven again finds itself on the losing end of a motion, with its case thrown out and owing the defendant – here, Leland Wolf, proprietor of the It Makes Sense Blog – costs and attorneys' fees for bringing a baseless...
Who's Looking Over Your Digital Shoulder? A Reader Privacy Quiz for Californians
Books are books whether we read them in a library or on a Kindle or iPad, but California laws are lagging when it comes to protecting reader privacy in the digital age. That's why EFF is a supporter of the Reader Privacy Act, a bill that has passed the...
Who's on the Intelligence Oversight Board? Government Won't Say
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) demanding records of who is on the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) -- the presidentially appointed, civilian panel in charge of reviewing all misconduct reports for American intelligence agencies.
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LISA: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference
This year marks the 25th LISA. It continues to be the meeting place of choice for system, network, database, and other computer administrators and engineers from all over the globe.
Register Today:
https://db.usenix.org/events/lisa11/registration/
7th International Conference of Information Commissioners: Access to Information: A Pillar of Democracy
EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch works on open government, transparency and privacy issues as part of EFF’s FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. She is speaking on "Radical access: The challenges and opportunities presented by WikiLeaks and the radical release of information."
This event is being held...
Stop the Piecemeal: Obama Administration Should Fully Free Communications Tech Exports to Syria (& Companies Should Help)
EFF has long complained about export restrictions by the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Commerce that deny citizens access to vital communications tools. In the past, this has affected, among others, Zimbabwean activists trying to obtain hosting providers, Syrian businesspeople networking on LinkedIn, and ordinary Iranians...
Government Violates Free Speech Rights with Domain Name Seizure
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court in an amicus brief today to order the return of two domain names seized by the U.S. government in violation of the First Amendment.
The domain names -- Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org, owned by Spanish company Puerto...
Senate Committee Agrees That Violating Terms of Service Shouldn't Be a Crime
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a trio of data security and data breach notification bills. One of the bills, which was sponsored by Committee Chairman Senator Leahy, includes a crucial amendment [pdf] to clarify that it's not illegal under the notoriously vague Computer Fraud and Abuse...




