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Felten, et al., v. RIAA, et al.

Recording Industry Cannot Gag Computer Scientists The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threatened security researchers from Princeton and Rice to stop them from publishing their study of a weak technological protection scheme for CDs called SDMI. EFF filed a lawsuit to protect the researchers' First Amendment right to publish...

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DVDCCA v Bunner and DVDCCA v Pavlovich

Code == Speech: Defending Publishers of DVD Descrambling Code The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA), a mouthpiece of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), sued dozens of people in venues across the country and around the world for publishing DeCSS, software code that decrypts the data on commercial DVDs...

Press Release | August 14, 2012

Government Faces New Warrantless Surveillance Battle After Losing Landmark GPS Tracking Case

San Francisco - A federal district court is poised to determine whether the government can use cell phone data obtained without a warrant to establish an individual's location. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) argue that this...

Event | September 6, 2012

CONSENT Policy Conference

CONSENT International Policy Conference: Perceptions, Privacy and Permissions:the role of consent in on-line services is the largest EU-supported multi-million Euro research project investigating consumer sentiment and privacy in on-line situations.
One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin | August 13, 2012

This Week In Internet Censorship: Activists Convicted in Oman, Malware in Nepal, and Wiretapping Bloggers in Russia

More Activists Convicted on Protest-Related Charges in Oman
The dozens of writers, activists, and bloggers who have been arrested on charges connected to their calls for greater freedoms in Oman in May and early June of 2012 have been brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced in recent weeks....

Deeplinks Blog by Parker Higgins | August 13, 2012

BART's Cell Phone Shutdown, One Year Later

In just a few hours, protestors are set to march to the headquarters of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to mark the anniversary of last year's cell service shutdown. A year ago this week, responding to planned protests throughout the BART system, the transit authority cut off cell phone...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | August 13, 2012

Victory for Speech: Facebook To Allow Marijuana Reform Ads

Responding to Outreach by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, Facebook Corrects Error and Affirms its Goal of Providing a Politically-Neutral Platform for Election Issues, Including Marijuana Reform
Last week, news outlets reported that Facebook was rejecting ads by advocacy groups working on marijuana policy reform. The...

Deeplinks Blog by Trevor Timm | August 13, 2012

This Week in Transparency: Congress Votes for Secrecy, Leak Hysteria, and a FOIA Request Fulfilled

Congress' Aversion to Transparency
While EFF has continually criticized the the Obama administration for their lack of transparency, it's becoming clear that as much—if not more—blame rests with Congress. As we explained recently, new "anti-leaks" legislation proposed in the Senate would restrict press freedoms, markedly increase government...

Deeplinks Blog by Carolina Rossini | August 10, 2012

Negotiations for a 2014 WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Are Back

As we noted last June, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Broadcast Treaty—which is a restrictive copyright treaty that aims to create and extend rights to signals of broadcasters and webcasters, and possibly creating serious problems for freedom of expression —is back. Although it has been revamped, it still...

Deeplinks Blog by Julie Samuels, Mitch Stoltz | August 10, 2012

Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results

Earlier this summer, we applauded Google for releasing detailed stats about content removal requests from copyright holders. Now that we know how they are going to use that data, we are less enthusiastic. Today, Google announced that it would use copyright takedown notices made under the DMCA...

Deeplinks Blog by Parker Higgins | August 9, 2012

Content Industry War on Sharing Claims Another Victim

LendInk, an innovative site dedicated to helping readers share their legally purchased ebooks with one another, has chosen to shut down in the face of legal intimidation. Despite the fact that the site was apparently operating within the terms of service of the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes &...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue, Kellie Brownell | August 9, 2012

Thanks for Supporting EFF in Las Vegas and Beyond!

We at the Electronic Frontier Foundation would like to thank everyone who took a moment to support our work this summer with a donation, a kind word, a name drop in your presentation, or a stop at an EFF talk at the Black Hat USA, Security BSidesLV, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | August 9, 2012

EFF to Jordanian Ministry of Information: Keep the Internet Open

Jordan is one of a handful of countries in the Middle East that does not censor access to websites.Historically, only one incident of blocking has been documented by the OpenNet Initiative; however, as the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reported in 2008, there are content restrictions...

Deeplinks Blog by Kurt Opsahl | August 9, 2012

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to--in other words granting them ownership of--every post. We were unhappily surprised to see this click-through demand, but are glad to see that craigslist has promptly removed it.
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Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Jillian C. York | August 8, 2012

Twitter Withholds Information from Police After Troll Threatens Murder? Not Quite

When New York Magazine reported that Twitter had declined an NYPD request for identifying information about a Twitter account that had allegedly been posting death threats since May, Harrison Weber at The Next Web titled his response: “Twitter Withholds Information from Police After Troll Threatens Murder.” While this...

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Felten, et al., v. RIAA, et al.

DVDCCA v Bunner and DVDCCA v Pavlovich

Government Faces New Warrantless Surveillance Battle After Losing Landmark GPS Tracking Case

CONSENT Policy Conference

This Week In Internet Censorship: Activists Convicted in Oman, Malware in Nepal, and Wiretapping Bloggers in Russia

BART's Cell Phone Shutdown, One Year Later

Victory for Speech: Facebook To Allow Marijuana Reform Ads

This Week in Transparency: Congress Votes for Secrecy, Leak Hysteria, and a FOIA Request Fulfilled

Negotiations for a 2014 WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Are Back

Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results

Content Industry War on Sharing Claims Another Victim

Thanks for Supporting EFF in Las Vegas and Beyond!

EFF to Jordanian Ministry of Information: Keep the Internet Open

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

Twitter Withholds Information from Police After Troll Threatens Murder? Not Quite

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