EFF's Intellectual Property Director, Corynne McSherry, will speak at a conference entitled "Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: The Copyright Alert System" at UC Hastings's Mary Kane Hall.

This year's symposium, the 6th in the series, will explore the IP implications of the shifting divide between content creators and providers through the lenses of game development, fan fiction writing, and 3D printing and home fabrication. EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn will deliver the keynote address.

EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian C. York, will speak about digital activism and social media.

Since the beginning of the War on Terror, the Department of Justice has increasingly relied on opinions drawn up in secret by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to justify policies including extraordinary rendition, the use of torture, the killing of Americans abroad, searches under the Patriot Act, and warrantless...

The EFF has been engaged in a series of projects to encrypt the entire Web, retiring the insecure HTTP protocol, and ensuring that "HTTPS" actually delivers what it promises. These projects include HTTPS Everywhere, the SSL Observatory, Sovereign Keys, and efforts to persuade major sites to deploy HTTPS. In this...