Last month, EFF and I scored a major victory for video game archiving, preservation and play – we got an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for some archival activities related to video games.
Before I throw a bunch of shade, I want to emphasize that the...

Everybody knows we here at EFF are big fans of Do Not Track (an HTTP header users can have their web browsers send to websites, indicating that they don’t want the websites to track them). That’s why we developed Privacy Badger, a browser extension that blocks third parties...

Preliminary Injunction Cannot Bar Respublika From Using “Stolen” Kazakhstan Emails in Its Reporting
The Republic of Kazakhstan has been blocked from using the U.S. court system to censor one of its most vocal and effective critics. In a victory for free speech rights, United States District Judge Edgardo...

Affirming his previous ruling that the NSA’s telephone records collection program is unconstitutional, a federal judge ordered the NSA to cease collecting the telephone records of an individual and his business. The judge further ordered the NSA to segregate any records that have already been collected so that they...

Last month, Chinese security researchers uncovered a security vulnerability in an Android software library developed by the Chinese search giant Baidu, and when it comes to security vulnerabilities, this one’s a whopper. It allows an attacker to remotely wreak all sorts of havoc on someone’s phone, from sending fake...

EFF is pleased to announce that our client, Chris Roberts, is now in the possession of all of his digital devices that had been held by the FBI since April 2015.
Earlier this year, Mr. Roberts was detained for tweeting about airplane network security. When he landed in...