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Event | April 12, 2008

EFF at LugRadio Live USA 2008

EFF will have a booth at the LugRadio Live USA 2008 Exhibition http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/start Saturday April 12th and Sunday 13th April 2008 Top floor of the Metreon Theater Metreon 101 4th St # 500 San Francisco, CA 94103

Deeplinks Blog by Peter Eckersley | March 27, 2008

Comcast Reduces Discrimination, Plans To End It Altogether

Last month, shortly before the FCC held its first hearing in an investigation of Comcast's interference with BitTorrent and other P2P protocols, we noticed that Comcast was no longer injecting forged TCP RST packets in the simple tests we had been running on its cable network. Those...

Deeplinks Blog by Tim Jones | March 27, 2008

Letters To The Editor: People Speak Out On Surveillance

With Congress in the middle of recess, surveillance issues have receded from the front pages. But look a few pages further in, and you'll find signs that the issues are very much on the minds of ordinary Americans: Jerry Moe of Brown Deer, Wisconsin, in The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: ...

Deeplinks Blog by Peter Eckersley | March 25, 2008

PrivacyFinder.org: Search, but with Privacy

The level of privacy offered by search engines is generally woeful. Last year, the three big players (Google, Yahoo! and MSN) made some improvements by limiting the duration for full retention of logs about who has searched and what they've searched for. That means that after a year or...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 22, 2008

Global minilinks for 2008-03-22

Antigua Says It Will Start Ignoring US CopyrightsWTO gave Antigua the right to ignore US IP rights as part of a judgement over online gambling bans. Now the small country is threatening to begin its data haven status, starting in April. France's Olivennes Law in Final Negotiations (Google...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | March 21, 2008

minilinks for 2008-03-20

FISA Attacks Fail to Sway CT RepresentativeRep. Joe Courtney has a good video explaining why he opposes telecom immunity, despite being attacked on the issue. Republican Opposes Telecom ImmunityA Republican candidate in North Carolina says he wants telephone companies held accountable. Facebook Expands Privacy FeaturesFacebook is making...

Deeplinks Blog by Tim Jones | March 20, 2008

Talk Back to the House

It seems somehow appropriate that the House's awesome vote to hold phone companies accountable for illegal spying would happen at the onset of a week dedicated to government transparency. Few things need transparency more than secret government surveillance law, and so we've rebuilt Stop The Spying.org to...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | March 20, 2008

Hollywood's Record Year Shows MPAA's Piracy Folly

To hear the MPAA tell it, Hollywood faces a mortal threat from something vaguely defined as "piracy." The danger is supposedly so great that the MPAA has been lobbying Congress for help -- all the while inflating their numbers to exaggerate the amount of filesharing on college campuses. But...

Deeplinks Blog by Eddan Katz | March 20, 2008

Computers, Freedom, Privacy - and Policy

For the first time, U.S. technology policy has taken a front-row seat in this election year. If you had the candidates' ear, what would you tell them to do in regards to our digital world? Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) is a conference whose interests have tracked those...

Deeplinks Blog by Fred von Lohmann | March 20, 2008

Monetizing File-Sharing: Collective Licensing Good, ISP Tax Bad

Last week at SXSW, music industry veteran Jim Griffin broached the idea that file sharers pay a small fee through their ISPs in exchange for unlimited file sharing. There is a great deal to recommend an idea like this (as we've been saying since 2004), but there's a...

Event | March 28, 2008

Emily Berger speaks at Ann Arbor Film Festival

Work Gallery - 1pm Friday, March 28, 2008 306 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Like many artists, those working in film, video and new media need protection for their creative work. Yet many also need access to sample, reference and illustrate using the work of others. In the...

Press Release | March 20, 2008

EFF Urges Court to Rule National Security Letters Unconstitutional

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with the National Security Archive urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to strike down the National Security Letter (NSL) provision of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The federal surveillance law, as expanded by the PATRIOT Act, allows the FBI to use...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | March 18, 2008

AT&T Whistleblower on Immunity for Telecoms

Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who came to EFF with evidence of government spying, eloquently explained to PBS NOW this weekend why Congress should reject immunity for telecoms taking part in the spying. If you missed it, you can watch the show online. Fortunately, a majority...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 18, 2008

Three Strikes, Three Countries: France, Japan and Sweden

The music and movie industries have been making a concerted attempt to introduce a "three strikes" rule for Net users in many countries simultaneously — pressuring ISPs to throw their customers offline, possibly permanently, if the rightsholders report that they have been infringing. The response by national ISPs and...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | March 18, 2008

How Surveillance Hurts Free Speech

Sunday's LA Times has a great opinion piece by political writer Julian Sanchez, situating the current debate over FISA reform within the long and sordid history of illegal surveillance in the US. Going back to the '20s, Sanchez reviews multiple occasions when authorities have used spying powers...

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EFF at LugRadio Live USA 2008

Comcast Reduces Discrimination, Plans To End It Altogether

Letters To The Editor: People Speak Out On Surveillance

PrivacyFinder.org: Search, but with Privacy

Global minilinks for 2008-03-22

minilinks for 2008-03-20

Talk Back to the House

Hollywood's Record Year Shows MPAA's Piracy Folly

Computers, Freedom, Privacy - and Policy

Monetizing File-Sharing: Collective Licensing Good, ISP Tax Bad

Emily Berger speaks at Ann Arbor Film Festival

EFF Urges Court to Rule National Security Letters Unconstitutional

AT&T Whistleblower on Immunity for Telecoms

Three Strikes, Three Countries: France, Japan and Sweden

How Surveillance Hurts Free Speech

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