What does the FBI want when it comes to the encryption “debate”?
At an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, FBI Director James Comey offered what he called the “good news” that it’s not a debate at all. In fact, he said, government and the tech...

It has been obvious for decades that copyright law is ill-matched for the opportunities and challenges created by the Internet. It's been equally obvious, however, that sensible copyright policies face huge practical barriers, in large part because few are willing to challenge the default assumption of copyright law that every...

Congress is in turmoil over the text of CISA, the controversial cybersecurity bill that the EFF community has been fighting against. The Hill reports that "it now appears the final language is unlikely to include notable privacy provisions" and "may confirm opponents’ worst fears."
This corroborates what we've...

In 1998, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent 5,718,632, on a method for avoiding “unnecessary wastage of time” in video games. What’s transpired in the 17 years since then can best be described as an unnecessary wastage of time.
Namco’s patent covers “auxiliary games” that a...

At EFF we put security and privacy first. This means working hard at keeping our members and site visitors safe, as well as the people who use the software we develop. We also dedicate staff time to advising security researchers, maintaining resources like our Coders' Rights Project, and ...

Multiple recent reports on serious security vulnerabilities in cable modems and routers paint a dire picture of the state of security of the devices that millions of users depend upon to connect to the Internet. Such vulnerabilities can be exploited to disable our access, snoop on our...