Press Releases: May 2015

EFF To Testify At Hearings To Expand DMCA Exemptions for Car Repair, Old Video Games, Jailbreaking, and Video Remixes

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. - Experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will testify at public hearings held by the U.S. Copyright Office this week and next, urging officials to grant and expand critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The exemptions will secure the right to...

EFF Hails Court Ruling Rejecting NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Phone Records

San Francisco - A federal appeals court today ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of phone records is illegal, saying Congress didn't authorize collection of a ''staggering'' amount of information on Americans. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturns...