For the third day of the 12 Days of 2FA, we’ll look at how to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on Yahoo. After Yahoo disclosed the largest known data breach in the history of the Internet in September, 500 million compromised users have been advised to change...

News Media Alliance’s Call to Weaken Protections Is Dangerous
When copyright law and the First Amendment come into conflict, the First Amendment must win. The fair use doctrine—the idea that there are certain ways that you can use a piece of copyrighted work regardless of whether you have the...

For the first few days of the 12 Days of 2FA, we’ll focus on two-factor authentication for email. When you forget or lose your password, services will often email you to confirm your identity and reset it. This makes email the golden key to all of your other...

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multi-stakeholder community that discusses a broad range of Internet issues, and seeks to identify possible shared solutions to current challenges. This year was the first year in which the spotlight fell on the use of trade agreements to make rules for the...

Enabling two-factor authentication—or 2FA for short—is among the easiest, most powerful steps you can take to protect your online accounts. Often, it’s as simple as a few clicks in your settings. However, different platforms sometimes call 2FA different things, making it hard to find: Facebook calls it “login...

UPDATE August 29, 2017: Uber has announced a roll back of the post-ride tracking and that it will re-enable iOS users to use the “While Using” location privacy setting. As we explained in the post below, there are many legitimate reasons that a rider would want privacy in their...

Sirius XM Satellite Radio's recent settlement with ex-members of the 60s rock group The Turtles over royalty payments for old recordings has the potential to solidify the dominant position of big music services like Sirius XM, at the expense of new music services, independent and Web-based radio stations, and the...

The federal government just got new hacking powers with virtually no debate, including in Congress. But the fight isn’t over.
It’s not too late to debate—or even reverse—the update to federal rules governing search warrants, which now lets investigators use one warrant to search an untold number of computers...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a hard decision to make: a coalition including the world's top research institutions; organizations supporting blind users on three continents; security firms; blockchain startups; browser vendors and user rights groups have asked it not to hand control over web video to some of...

One country’s government shouldn’t determine what Internet users across the globe can see online. But a French regulator is saying that, under Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten,” Google should have to delist search results globally, keeping them from users across the world. That’s a step too far, and would conflict...