Last week, a spokesman for the Pakistani Ministry of Information Technology announced that Pakistan was blocking access to Twitter because the site had not removed links to a competition on Facebook to post cartoon images of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Why Twitter and not Facebook? The spokesman went on...
ACLU loses FOIA Case Asking For Torture Evidence In a disappointing ruling for government transparency advocates, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held the government could keep secret “cables describing waterboarding; a photograph of a detainee, Abu Zubaydah, taken around the time that he was subjected to...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a judge today to block a reality TV star's attempts to censor critical comments about her company on a popular online fashion blog.
Corri McFadden, star of the VH1 show "House of Consignment," filed suit against Purseblog.com in a California...
EFF has asked a judge today to block a reality TV star’s attempts to censor critical comments about her company on a popular online fashion blog.
Corri McFadden, star of the VH1 show “House of Consignment,” filed suit against Purseblog.com in a California federal court after a commenter accused...
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals.
EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues, they are marred by an ugly set of restrictions on what...
Television networks are having a busy month trying to stamp out new TV-watching technology, including telling a court that skipping a commercial while watching a recorded show is illegal. Yesterday, Fox, NBC, and CBS all ...
Lino and Mario Bocchini, creators of the Brazilian parody website Falha de São Paulo, are currently appealing a court order that froze their domain two years ago. In September 2010, Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo filed a lawsuit against the Falha seeking financial compensation for mimicking their layout...
EFF and an array of civil liberties organizations are engaged in a pitched battle against the privacy-invasive legislation Congress is pushing under the guise of promoting “cyber security.” Everyone agrees that network security is important, but a thinly disguised mass surveillance bill won’t help address the needs of our country...
You may remember that EFF’s client, Kyle Goodwin, asked the court to return the legal files he lost when Megaupload was seized last January. Since then, we’ve been to court, both for a hearing and a mediation, and nothing has changed. The key problem: the government has...
UK Data Breaches Were an Inside Job Privacy advocates in the United Kingdom got the unfortunate opportunity to say “we told you so” last week, following revelations that nearly 1,000 civil servants working at the UK government’s Department for Work and Pensions had been disciplined for accessing citizens’ private...
Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze, Maira Sutton | May 23, 2012
Senator Ron Wyden yesterday introduced a bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate demanding access to draft texts of international trade agreements under negotiation by the Office of the United States Trade Representative such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) that carry provisions that could severely choke off users'...
CIA Still Claims Its Drone Program is "Secret" Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported the Obama Administration may finally lift the legal veil of secrecy surrounding the CIA’s covert drone program. The ACLU has been involved in a lawsuit over the US government’s constitutional authority to target American...
Eurovision Song Contest Sets Stage for Online Protest Last Thursday, Azeri hackers calling themselves Cyberwarriors for Freedom temporarily took down four different websites for the Eurovision Song Contest, which is being hosted by Azerbaijan this week. Hackers replaced the home pages with an Azeri-language message demanding that President...
San Francisco - Today the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) release "From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond." The paper outlines the current state of U.S. government collection of biometric information and the problems that could arise from these...
