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EFF to the SEC: Get a Warrant
If the federal government wants to compel an online service provider, like Yahoo or Google, to turn over your email, they need a warrant. That's the industry-accepted best practice, implemented by nearly every major service provider . More importantly, it's what the Fourth Amendment requires. The Securities and Exchange...
Be Prepared: Summer Security Camp
EFF has just launched the Summer Security Camp , a two-week membership drive that challenges people everywhere to gather ‘round the online rights movement and prepare for the privacy and free speech challenges in their paths. Through the 4th of July, anyone can join EFF or renew...
Restoring Privacy Protections for Californians
Californians now have a chance to reclaim crucial online privacy protections. Earlier this year, Congress narrowly voted to repeal federal privacy rules that kept your ISP from selling information about who you are and what you do online without your permission. Today, California legislators are introducing new state legislation—the California...
Understanding Public, Closed, and Secret Facebook Groups
There are as many different uses for Facebook groups as there are Facebook users, from sports leagues to alumni groups to community movements. No matter how you use Facebook groups, you may be sharing locations, planning events, and exchanging contact information that you would rather not broadcast to the entire...
NSA Reneges on Promise to Tell Congress How Many Innocent Americans it Spies On
Lawmakers should know how the laws they pass impact their constituents. That’s especially true when the law would reauthorize a vast Internet and telephone spying program that collects information about millions of law-abiding Americans. But that’s exactly what the Intelligence Community wants Congress to do when it considers reauthorizing a...
EFF Sues DOJ For Records on Procedures for Ending NSL Gag Orders
San Francisco, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Justice Department today to obtain records that can shed light on whether the FBI is complying with a Congressional mandate that it periodically review and lift National Security Letter (NSL) gag orders that are no longer needed. The...
Liveblogging Today's Senate Intelligence Hearing on Section 702
The debate over expiring online spying powers is heating up. The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding an open hearing on Section 702, as enacted by the FISA Amendments Act, which is set to sunset at the end of the year. The House Judiciary Committee held its own ...
Puntos de seguimiento de impresión, de nuevo a las noticias
Varios periodistas y expertos se han enfocado , recientemente, en el hecho de que un documento escaneado publicado por The Intercept contiene pequeños puntos amarillos producidos por una impresora Xerox DocuColor. Esos puntos permiten determinar el origen del documento y la fecha de impresión, lo que podría...
Puntos de seguimiento de impresión, de nuevo a las noticias
Varios periodistas y expertos se han enfocado , recientemente, en el hecho de que un documento escaneado publicado por The Intercept contiene pequeños puntos amarillos producidos por una impresora Xerox DocuColor. Esos puntos permiten determinar el origen del documento y la fecha de impresión, lo que podría...
Printer Tracking Dots Back in the News
Several journalists and experts have recently focused on the fact that a scanned document published by The Intercept contained tiny yellow dots produced by a Xerox DocuColor printer. Those dots allow the document's origin and date of printing to be ascertained, which could have played...
