The Ultimate Test of Internet Law Expertise
Eleven teams, comprised of the Bay Area's sharpest legal minds from law firms, universities and technology companies, faced-off last Tuesday at EFF's annual pub quiz trivia night. At stake: the coveted EFF Pub Quiz Cup and a year's worth bragging rights. The competition was fierce, with each team diving deep...
EFF Denounces Flawed E-Verify Proposal that Would Trample on Worker Privacy
Congress is considering a bill that would federalize E-Verify, creating a single, government-controlled database of highly sensitive, detailed information about every legal worker in the United States. EFF joined the ACLU, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Liberty Coalition, and dozens of other civil liberties and labor groups...
EFF at Bioneers: "The New Media Revolution and Political Expression"
Join the EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression, along with journalist Nora Barrows-Friedman for a panel discussion (moderated by Mother Jones' Steve Katz) on the use of new media to fight political repression.
About Bioneers (October 14-16, 2011, http://bioneers.org/conference): Attend Bioneers to explore the forefront of positive change...
This Week in Internet Censorship: Arrests of Twitter Users and New Filtering
Pakistan
In Pakistan, where substantial online and offline censorship already exist, reports have emerged that users of the ISP Mobilink must add proxy 10.215.2.32 port 3128 to browse the Internet, resulting in censorship of key words and phrases in search engines, as well as several individual web pages,...
"The Impact of Technology on Social Change: A Double-Edged Sword" - ACS and ACLU Luncheon
Join the American Constitutional Society for Law and Policy and the ACLU of Northern California
for a discussion on "The Impact of Technology on Social Change: A Double-Edged Sword, featuring Jillian York, EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression; Ebele Okobi-Harris, Director of Business & Human Rights Program, Yahoo!;...
DEF CON 19 Getaway Contest - DAYS LEFT!
With only a few days and a 4th of July weekend left, our second annual DEF CON Getaway Contest is getting down to the wire! Thirty-seven participants have raised nearly $4,500 — but it's not over!You have until 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 to...
Why EFF Supports CSISAC's Decision Not to Endorse the OECD Communique on Internet Policy-Making Principles
Yesterday we reported that EFF and the other civil society members of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (CSISAC) had declined to endorse a draft Communique on Internet policy-making principles produced by the OECD. Since then, the OECD and...
EFF Files Comments with PTO in Support of Streamlining Reexamination Procedures
p>Along with Professor Mark Webbink, Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, today EFF filed comments in response to the Patent Office's Proposals on Streamlined Patent Reexamination Proceedings.We applaud the Patent Office's (PTO) efforts to streamline the reexamination process, which can be...
Thousands More Does Dismissed in Copyright Troll Cases -- But the Trolls Are Trying New Tactics
The copyright trolling world has been hopping in the past several weeks, and some developments seem to bode well for the protection of due process. All in all, we’ve seen the number of total Does sued rise to over 190,000, and we estimate that the number of Does remaining after...
Righthaven Cheerleader Wanted by Irony Police
Sherman Frederick is the former CEO of Stephens Media, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal, and one of Righthaven’s biggest cheerleaders. When the litigation campaign of Stephens Media's copyright enforcer Righthaven first got underway, Frederick famously wrote “So, I'm asking you nicely once againdon't steal our...
