Press Releases: January 2012

Press Release | January 30, 2012

EFF Asks Judge to Prevent ‘Catch-22’ in Porn-Downloading Lawsuit

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to protect the identities of individuals sued in a mass copyright lawsuit involving pornographic materials.
In this case, adult film company Hard Drive Productions sued 1495 unnamed Internet users, claiming they illegally downloaded...

Press Release | January 23, 2012

Unanimous Supreme Court Ensures Americans Have Protections from GPS Surveillance

San Francisco - In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that Americans have constitutional protections against GPS surveillance by law enforcement, holding in U.S. v. Jones that GPS tracking is a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
In Jones, FBI agents planted a GPS device on a...

Press Release | January 18, 2012

Facebook Ploy to Criminalize Add-On Service Hurts Users and Innovation

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a district court judge Tuesday to block Facebook's attempts to criminalize an add-on service that helped users aggregate all of their social networking data in one place.
Power Ventures created a web-based tool to let users view information from different...

Press Release | January 12, 2012

EFF Demands Withdrawal of Bogus Time Zone Database Lawsuit

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has demanded the withdrawal of a bogus copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of a database of time zone information relied on by software engineers across the globe.
Last September, an astrology software company called Astrolabe filed the suit against Arthur...