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Though the owners of major sites often have the resources to fend off or even prevent such attacks, smaller sites—such as those belonging to small independent media or human rights ...
A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot...
... Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has opened a web site designed to help you keep the government from get its grubby mitts on your hard-drive today...
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... au trafic légitime.
Bien que les propriétaires de sites majeurs aient souvent les moyens de repousser ou même de prévenir ces attaques, les sites mineurs, tels que ceux appartenant aux médias indépendants ou aux ...
Less than a week after this month's launch of CrimsonConnect.com, a student-driven portal created as an alternative to the University's my.harvard....
Army personnel who monitor online security believe that official service Web sites are doing a good job protecting sensitive information despite a...
... monitor online security believe that official service Web sites are doing a good job protecting sensitive information despite a recent ... showed results of the AWRAC’s review of Army-run Web sites and soldiers’ blog sites between January 2006 and January 2007. ...
This page lists some types of sites that the Senate Judiciary Committee's September 2010 draft COICA bill might take offline, along with some...
This page lists some types of sites that the Senate Judiciary Committee's September 2010 draft COICA bill ... such as Dropbox , MediaFire and Rapidshare : these sites allow users to upload anything, and do not police files unless they ... a balance between copyright enforcement and freedom for sites to innovate. Under COICA, the Department of Justice (DOJ) could decide ...
Army researchers found security violations on official service Web portals at nearly 40 times the rate of soldiers’ blogs, according to documents...
... tracking and troubleshooting of soldier’s personal sites...
“This shows that bloggers seem to be doing a good job keeping sensitive material off their sites,” said Marcia Hofmann, EFF attorney and spokeswoman. “It appears that ...
In the five years since he co-founded RateMDs.com, a site where patients rate their doctors, John Swapceinski has been threatened with lawsuits at...
... our efforts.
Free Speech
Docs Threaten Review Sites With Copyright Suits ...
Newly released documents show government agencies have engaged in domestic spying through popular social networking websites such as Facebook and...
... agents to befriend petitioners on social networking sites to monitor them for unlawful activity.
Knowing “what the ... out EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense project.
Sites like Facebook and Twitter provide users with a place to share personal ...
The Internet has made it possible for every citizen with a gripe against a company to broadcast their feelings far and wide online. But that doesn't...
Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks is getting legal help to fight an attempt to keep it offline.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the...
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the...
According to a post by Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Marcia Hofmann on Dec. 22, a WikiLeaks mirror was shut down by its host, SiteGround, as...
... account.
Terms Of (Ab)Use
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks Mirror Sites Lose Web Hosting Services ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday launched a new online tool that tracks changes in the Terms of Service agreements of 44 Web sites like...
... tracks changes in the Terms of Service agreements of 44 Web sites like Google, eBay, Amazon, Craigslist and Facebook...
Most people ... Surveillance Self-Defense project.
Privacy
Web sites' terms of service changes tracked ...
In a bold and welcome move to protect users, Google announced on Wednesday that they have started prioritizing sites offering HTTPS (HTTP over TLS)...
... announced on Wednesday that they have started prioritizing sites offering HTTPS (HTTP over TLS) in their page ranking algorithm. Google's ... Lab tool .
This move to protect end users and reward sites taking steps to ensure the privacy and security of their visitors fits ...
The world's largest website name registrar, Network Solutions, is blocking web surfers from accessing an anti-Islam site - prompting concerns that...
Faced with saber-rattling by Universal Music Group (UMG), online video sharing network Veoh has requested a federal judge to rule that its business...
... its YouTube property, the legal landscape for such Web 2.0 sites could be substantially altered. "Google has basically been following the ...
Last week, the Department of Justice Inspector General's office released a damning report documenting the FBI abusing its powers under the PATRIOT...
Beware of Gregory from Oakland. He is not single. Rather, he is married, and cheats on his wife Saturday nights before church, no less. Not only that...
... down through his or her IP address, Opsahl says.
Sites uncover online dating web of lies ...
The numbers confirm the anecdotal evidence: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is...
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The presentation discusses "Operation in Our Sites," ICE’s no-longer-new domain name seizure strategy for "Taking Aim to ... defined different techniques for blocking “blacklisted” sites. Each would interfere with the Internet's domain name system ( DNS ), ...
San Francisco - Apple has retracted its legal threats against public wiki hosting site Bluwiki, and, in response, EFF is dismissing its lawsuit...
The creators of videos that have been improperly removed by YouTube and other Internet service providers after allegations of copyright violations...
... legal disputes within the year."
Videos Pulled From Web Sites Draw Suits ...
It's simple these days to find vast amounts of free real estate information online, including photos of houses for sale, value estimates and recent...
Because copyright and trademark lawyers have had such itchy trigger fingers when it comes to issuing DMCA takedown notices, there’s a lot of...
Regardless, Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who focuses on privacy, said the message of Please Rob Me...
Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, said the “tragedy is that thousands of blogs will be...
But “as part of a long-running court battle with Google, adult publisher Perfect 10 claims that forwarding its infringement notices to the online...
In one message, Mr Dotcom said he was working with lawyers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which campaigns on digital rights issues, to get...
New York – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in an emergency hearing and a written filing this week to block the...
May 2009
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why....
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why....
...
Be noncommercial — no ads, no links to commercial sites, no affiliate links, no Café Press T-shirt sales, no fundraising if you ...
Minnesota officials have ordered 11 internet service providers to block all computers in the state from accessing nearly 200 online gambling sites...
... in the state from accessing nearly 200 online gambling sites...
Last year, Kentucky officials seized 141 domain names used by some of the world's biggest internet betting sites. That seizure was blasted by civil liberties groups, including the ...
Everybody who religiously reads those terms-of-use documents that Web sites and services ask us to accept -- then re-reads them after every announced...
... who religiously reads those terms-of-use documents that Web sites and services ask us to accept -- then re-reads them after every announced ... group -- monitors the terms-of-service rules of 58 sites and services, using open-source software to scan for revisions, then ...
The contracts typically limit patient comments for five years from the last doctor’s visit and they imply that breaking the terms could land the...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of California, Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have filed a lawsuit against six government...
... seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance.
Knowing “what the ... out EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense project.
Sites like Facebook and Twitter provide users with a place to share personal ...
Say you create a Web site poking fun at a company that irks you. But since you’ve identified it by name and used its logo, it slaps you with a...
...
No Downtime for Free Speech
Tips for Gripe and Parody Sites on Avoiding Lawsuits ...
Danish Police Accidentally Block 8,000 Sites
For years, Denmark has continued to block websites hosting sexually abusive images of children. In a...
For years, Denmark has continued to block websites hosting sexually abusive images of children. In a...
Danish Police Accidentally Block 8,000 Sites
For years, Denmark has continued to block websites hosting ... including Google and Facebook. Visitors to the blocked sites were met with a page stating that the sites had been made inaccessible by the country's High Tech Crime Unit.
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Time Warner Cable says access to a Web site that has been posting blog entries about an officer-involved shooting in Oceanside was temporarily...
When copies of a fake New York Times and an accompanying Web site started making the rounds on the morning of November 12, many people believed that...
Canary Watch was created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), NYU's Technology Law & Policy Clinic and other privacy advocate groups. So...
... advocate groups. So far, it's only tracking a handful of sites, including secure cloud platforms like Rsync.net and Spider Oak, along with social/news sites Tumblr, Reddit and Pinterest. The EFF points out that most folks ...
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of...
... its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing ... ISPs have received orders to block a list of major news sites and system administrators have been instructed to take the servers ...
EFF has a long-term mission to encrypt as much of the Web as possible — in fact, to encrypt all of it. We have been making quite a lot of...
... to ensure that HTTPS Everywhere doesn't interfere with the sites it protects. But from time to time, the HTTPS versions of sites are buggy. If you see a page that seems to be broken because of HTTPS ...
Kentucky officials must return 141 gambling domain names they seized last year in a bid to block internet betting within state borders, an appeals...
... state shouldn't trump the rights of others to access sites that are perfectly legal elsewhere. In friend-of-the-court briefs filed ... Kentucky to take control of any domain name if it pointed to sites that were deemed illegal in that state.
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. ...
Concerned about your privacy when you use online dating sites? You should be. We recently examined 8 popular online dating sites to see how well they...
Concerned about your privacy when you use online dating sites? You should be. We recently examined 8 popular online dating sites to see how well they were safeguarding user privacy through the use of ...
Proponents of the latest disastrous IP bill , the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) insist it only targets the “worst of the worst”: so-called “rogue”...
... oversight. One very possible outcome: many of the lawful sites you know and love will face new legal threats.
As we’ve explained ... their payment providers or ad networks. In many cases, these sites are dependent on the revenue from those payments and ad networks for ...
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