Tracking Protection Lists: A privacy enhancing technology that complements Do Not Track
Yesterday, Microsoft released version 9 of Internet Explorer, which includes two significant new privacy features: Tracking Protection Lists (TPLs) and a Do Not Track (DNT) header that allows users to request that websites not track them. We've written about the virtues of the Do Not Track header...
EFF Lets the Sunshine In
This week marks the seventh annual Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. As our little way to celebrate, EFF has recently posted nearly nine thousand pages of government documents to our site. For the majority of these...
EFF Urges Judge to Reject Dangerous New Copyright Troll Strategy
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an Illinois judge to quash subpoenas issued in a "reverse class action" lawsuit accusing thousands of people of illegally downloading pornography, and urged the court to dismiss the case. In a friend of the court brief filed Tuesday, EFF argued...
Spend an Evening with the EFF Activism Team Discussing Privacy and Government Surveillance
UPDATE (3/24/11) -- Unfortunately, it looks like there will not be live-streaming video for this event. However, it will be recorded and broadcast at a later date. We'll let you know the details so you can watch it later.
On the evening on March 24, 2011, EFF...
EFF Seeks Cooperating FOIA Reviewers
Are you an EFF member or supporter interested in helping out on EFF’s Freedom of Information Act cases and connecting with EFF’s FOIA attorneys? Are you looking for ways to volunteer with EFF but perhaps don’t live near our offices? EFF is setting up an email list to connect you...
A Privacy Emergency: Consumer Rights at Risk in Next Generation 911
The federal government is working on revamping America's 911 service, with a project called Next Generation 911. The goal is to create a framework that will allow consumers to contact critically important emergency services through multiple means — including text message, photos, and email — in order to improve...
Sunshine Week: Do Open Government Laws Still Matter in the Era of WikiLeaks?
March 14-18, 2011 is “Sunshine Week”—a week to focus on the importance of open government and how we can ensure accountability for our leaders at the federal, state and local levels.In the year since Sunshine Week 2010, the world of open government has been rocked by the WikiLeaks leaks....
Court Rules Against Privacy in Battle Over Twitter Records
Alexandria, VA - A federal magistrate judge in Virginia ruled today that the government can collect the private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to WikiLeaks, and that those users and the public can be prevented from seeing some of the documents that the...
Have You Benefited from Public Access to PubMed?
April 7, 2011 marks the third anniversary of a groundbreaking policy that has dramatically improved access to a trove of medical and scientific knowledge. Whenever the National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocates taxpayer money for scientific research, the much-heralded NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the fruits of that...
Government Surveillance in a Digital World: An Evening with the Electronic Frontier Foundation
UPDATE (3/24/11) -- Unfortunately, it looks like there will not be live-streaming video for this event. However, it will be recorded and broadcast. We'll let you know the details so you can watch it later.
Join EFF Activists Richard Esguerra and Rainey Reitman as they discuss "Government Surveillance in a...
