EFF in the News
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a post up today about some additional activity by the U.S. Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. Attorney’s offices that have taken part in the seizure of 82 domains claiming that they were engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and illegal copyrighted works.
Hotz today posted a screengrab of a receipt showing a $10,000 payment to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet privacy and digital rights advocacy organization which also supported Hotz during his suit.
Digital rights activist group Electronic Frontier Foundation recently examined twelve different companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, among others, looking at how they responded to government requests for user data.
Interview with International Rights Director Katitza Rodriguez.
Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon are most willing to throw users under the bus when it comes to privacy, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I’ve really enjoyed the Humble Bundle model — you get a nice bundle of software (productivity apps, games, stuff from indie developers) for a good price, and a chunk of it goes toward causes like the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child’s Play.
“Even if we could absolutely be sure that all of the infected Coreflood botnet machines were running the exact code that we reverse-engineered and convinced ourselves that we understood,” said Chris Palmer, technology director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “this would still be an extremely sketchy action to take.
rs Technica reports that the proposal, which was presented by the San Francisco Police Department to address an increase in violent incidents in close proximity to the city's clubs, has already met with disapproval from civil liberties groups such as PrivacyActivism, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (which compares the proposed rules to a "police state"), the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, IP Justice, Beat the Chip, Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, Patient Privacy Rights, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. T
I’ve really enjoyed the Humble Bundle model — you get a nice bundle of software (productivity apps, games, stuff from indie developers) for a good price, and a chunk of it goes toward causes like the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child’s Play.
"We are deeply disappointed in the San Francisco Entertainment Commission for considering such troubling, authoritarian, and poorly thought-out rules," warns the Electronic Frontier Foundation, PrivacyActivism, and eight other groups in a letter sent to the Commission.
