EFF to Council of Europe: Ensure Privacy, Transparency, and Freedom of Expression in Search Engines
This week the Council of Europe's expert committee on new media (MC-NM) met in Strasbourg to examine the comments received on the draft recommendation and proposal for guidelines for search engines.
In written comments, EFF urged the Council of Europe to revise its recommendation...
Documents Obtained by EFF Reveal FBI Patriot Act Abuses
In yesterday's Senate Judiciary Hearing, "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," FBI Director Robert Mueller testified about the Bureau's desire to extend three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act PATRIOT Section 215, authorizing secret court orders for the Internet and financial records of innocent Americans;...
"Operation in Our Sites" Moves Ahead
The numbers confirm the anecdotal evidence: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is stepping up intellectual propertyrelated enforcement, launching almost half as many cases in the past two months as it had in total in 2010. That’s according to ICE's own statistics,...
House Oversight Committee Investigates DHS FOIA Review Practices—EFF's Requests Were Singled Out
Today the House Oversight Committee held a hearing titled, “Why Isn't the Department of Homeland Security Meeting the President’s Standard on FOIA?” As we wrote last October, redacted DHS emails revealed the agency was targeting certain Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and certain FOIA requesters—such as activist...
Reader Privacy Act Introduced to Upgrade Book Privacy for the Digital Era
Sacramento, CA - California Senator Leland Yee has introduced the Reader Privacy Act of 2011 (SB 602), with backing from the California Affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The law would bring a much-needed upgrade to match Californians' reading habits. Under SB...
Judge Stays Discovery in OpenMind v Does
UPDATE: The Court in OpenMind Solutions v. Does 1 – 2925 heard oral argument on April 11, 2011. At the end of the hearing — during which the judge expressed some initial concerns with OpenMind's attempt to lump the defendants into a class action — the judge requested that...
White House Call-In Day: Demand PATRIOT Act Reform!
White House Call-In Day on April 5, 2011
Tell Obama: Keep Your Promises and Demand PATRIOT Act Reform!
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On April 5, 1792, President George Washington vetoed a bill -- the first time in U.S. history that the presidential veto was exercised. On the anniversary...
Mobile Carrier Delays Harm Internet Security
By delaying or even blocking security updates for mobile devices, mobile carriers put their users, their business, and the country’s critical infrastructure at unnecessary risk. Mobile security problems plague the entire software stack — the baseband, the kernel, the application frameworks, and the applications — and carriers continue to...
What Location Tracking Looks Like
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you?
It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives...
Where’s EFF? Why EFF Is Sometimes Quiet About Important Cases
When legal issues light up the Internet, people turn to EFF for answers. Whether it’s attacks on coders' rights, overreaching copyright claims online, or governments' efforts to censor or spy on people, we are often among the first to hear about troubling events online, and we're frequently the first place...
