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...
Help EFF Topple a Troll
EFF Declines to Endorse OECD Draft Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making
EFF has joined with a coalition of more than 80 global civil society groups which have declined to endorse a set of Internet Policy Principles presented today in Paris by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). EFF and the other members of the OECD’s Civil Society...
Tor Challenge Level 3: Video Achievement
At the beginning of June, EFF issued its Tor Challenge, calling on individuals and organizations to set up Tor relays to strengthen the Tor network and help Internet activists all over the world. Then we added the Poster Challenge, offering a Molly Crabapple poster to anyone who set...
Tor Video Challenge Contest Rules
EFF's Tor Video Challenge is a contest (Contest) to create instructional short videos (Videos) showing how to set up a Tor relays on different operating systems or environments. All entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on July 5th, 2011. Prizes will be awarded to the creators of the best videos in each of the six categories, according to these Official Rules.
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Key Warrantless GPS Tracking Case
In a move that could have a profound impact on Fourth Amendment law, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider a question that has split the nation's appeals courts: can the police install and use a GPS tracking device to follow a person's movements around the clock every day for...
