2014 has seen a flurry of events surrounding the issues of privacy and security when it comes to mobile devices. Here are some highlights.
EFF started the year by releasing HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox for Android. Before, HTTPS Everywhere could only protect web browsing on desktop platforms,...

EFF submitted an amicus letter to the California Supreme Court urging the justices to review a case that has significant implications for the free speech rights of anonymous online speakers under California law.

EFF wrote the amicus letter in support of an anonymous defendant (Doe 1) who created a website...

It's been a mixed year for open access but we've seen some real victories and a steady march toward a comprehensive federal open access policy.
We entered January with a bad taste still in our mouth: the previous month, the academic publisher Reed Elsevier sent thousands of...

Back in January, Congress held a hearing on the state of fair use, as part of a year-long review of all things copyright that, in 2015, may lead to real legislative proposals. Among the witnesses was Professor Peter Jaszi, who had good news for the Committee: “[F]air use...

After a banner year for shedding light on the NSA’s secret surveillance programs in 2013, the pace of disclosures in 2014—both from whistleblowers and through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits—slowed significantly.
But that’s not because all the secrets of NSA surveillance have been revealed.
In fact,...

Last year, EFF took a huge step toward eliminating a highly problematic government surveillance tool—national security letters (NSLs). EFF clients won a major victory when a district court found that the NSL gag provision, which allows the government to bar recipients from speaking about NSLs without judicial...

At the end of last year, patent trolls were filing more suits than ever before. At the same time, efforts to restore sanity to the patent system were in full swing. The House of Representatives had overwhelmingly passed the Innovation Act and it seemed legislative...