This is a guest post from Yana Welinder and Stephen LaPorte, Legal Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.* If you have comments on this post, you can contact Yana and Stephen on Twitter.
Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary...

We’ve written before about the appalling state of access to public court records, recently made dramatically worse by the decision of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AO) to effectively terminate electronic access to documents on PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), the fee-based system administered by the...

Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we'll take on...

We’ve been closely watching the trial in the Eastern District of Texas between podcasting patent troll Personal Audio and CBS. Today we heard disappointing news: after five days of trial, a federal jury found Personal Audio’s podcasting patent valid and infringed by CBS. The jury awarded $1.3 million in...

Today is the last day to file comments at the FCC in the net neutrality debate. Right now, before you even finish reading this, go to our tool at DearFCC.org and tell the Commission why the future of the open Internet matters to you.
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Today EFF Staff Technologist Jeremy Gillula is speaking at an FTC workshop on big data and its impact on privacy, prompted by the recent reports on big data by the White House as well as the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Our major...

In the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the 13 Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we'll take on a different part...