2010 Trend Watch Update: Social Networking Privacy
At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a promise to revisit our predictions at the end of the year. Now, as 2010 comes to...
Genachowski Wins on Net Neutrality, Sort of
After a down-to-the-wire push, the Federal Communications Commission this week approved by 3-2 its long-awaited regulatory proposal on net neutrality. We haven’t finished combing through the actual rules document, all 200 pages of which were just released today, but nonetheless the summary documents gave us some important hints about...
What is Traitorware?
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a...
2010 Trend Watch Update: Books and Newspapers
At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a promise to revisit our predictions at the end of the year. Now, as 2010 comes to...
Sending Money Overseas for the Holidays? The Government Wants to Know.
What do an online donation to the International Red Cross, a bank transfer to family members living in Vietnam, and a payment sent through PayPal for an expensive rug in Turkey have in common? The government wants to know about them. And, if new rules proposed by the Financial...
Urdu: Say No to Online Censorship
خفیہ حکومتی رازوں سے پردہ ۱ٹھانے والی ویب سائیٹ "وکی لیکس" کی حالیہ اشاعت نے حکومتی معلومات تک رسائی کے حق کی بحث کو مزید بھڑکا دیا ہے. یہ بحث اور اس کے نتیجے میں ایسی معلومات شائع کرنے والی ویب سائیٹس اب مسلسل حکومتی دباؤ کا شکار ہوتی جا رہی ہیں.
Chilling Effects Supporters Fight Back Against Perfect 10 Challenge
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other founders and participants in the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse urged an appeals court in an amicus brief filed Tuesday to reject an adult entertainment publisher's attempts to block Google's contributions to the online copyright resource. Durie Tangri LLP represented EFF and...
Wikileaks Mirror Taken Down: Host Buckles Under Demands from Upstream Provider
Wikileaks isn't the only site struggling to stay up these days because service providers are pulling their support. It appears that at least one person who wants to provide mirror access to Wikileaks documents is having the same trouble.
Recently we heard from a user who mirrored the...
Case Closed? Court Issues Final Judgment in NSA Spying Case, Al-Haramain v. Obama
Yesterday, following on his ruling this Spring that the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity's lawyers in 2004 violated federal surveillance law, Judge Vaughn Walker in the Northern District of California federal court issued his final order in the case of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama. The...
2010 Trend Watch Update: Congress
At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a promise to revisit our predictions at the end of the year. Now, as 2010 comes to...
