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Event | July 16, 2015

EFF Anniversary Minicon

As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, EFF is hosting a minicon that will include a security training, a capture-the-flag event, and a series of panels discussing the future of EFF issues in security, copyright and user control and online activism and speech.
Security Training
EFF Activist...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | July 6, 2015

Caving to Government Pressure, Visa and MasterCard Shut Down Payments to Backpage.com

Visa and MasterCard confirmed that they have cut off payment services for Backpage.com, an online platform for people to advertise goods and services. This was in response to public pressure from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who wrote to executives at both of the payment processors urging them to...

Press Release | July 6, 2015

Tuesday Court Hearing Over Absurd Copyright Claim in Family Home Movie

San Francisco - On Tuesday, July 7, at 9 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge an appeals court in San Francisco to confirm that Internet users—from Ms. Lenz to remix artists to scholars to documentary filmmakers—have real protection against baseless content takedowns.
Lenz v. Universal is often...

Event | July 8, 2015

Let's Encrypt: Uma Autoridade Certificadora Gratuita e Automatizada

Seth Schoen will speak at Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL) in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, on "Let's Encrypt: Uma Autoridade Certificadora Gratuita e Automatizada".
Centro de Eventos PUC
Porto Alegre, RS
Sala 41D
http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/549

Event | July 8, 2015

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

Digital initiatives for social causes are everywhere these days—from laptops in education to social media for political activism. In Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan associate professor and former Microsoft computer scientist, draws on his years of experience in India...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | July 2, 2015

EFF Launches Badge Hacking Contest for DEF CON 23

UPDATE: Judging will take place in the Contests and Events main hall at Bally's at 5 PM on Saturday, August 8, 2015.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is proud to present the DEF CON 23 Badge Hack Pageant (1337 skills required, swimsuit optional). Now is the time to bring out...

Whitepaper

Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests

We live digital lives—from the videos shared on social networks, to location-aware apps on mobile phones, to log-in data for connecting to our email, to our stored documents, to our search history. The personal, the profound, and even the absurd are all transcribed into data packets, whizzing through the fiber-optic...

Deeplinks Blog by Alison Dame-Boyle | July 1, 2015

EFF Is Turning 25 and We Want to Celebrate With You

We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and we're thrilled to be celebrating a quarter-century of fighting for digital rights.We're kicking off this milestone in two ways: a membership drive and a party and minicon in San Francisco on July 16. We're asking people to donate and become members because...

Deeplinks Blog by Sarah Myers West | July 1, 2015

Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, rainey Reitman | July 1, 2015

Same Old FISA Court? Thoughts on the Opinion Extending Mass Surveillance for Six More Months

The first line of the opinion issued earlier this week by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) reauthorizing the NSA’s mass surveillance of telephone records is telling: “‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,’ well, at least for 180 days.” The court’s observation...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | June 30, 2015

EFF Stands With Innovative Developers in the Wake of Oracle v. Google

The Supreme Court’s refusal to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google means that court’s decision will stand for now. EFF, along with leading computer scientists and copyright practitioners, thinks the Federal Circuit got it wrong: the legal precedents that the Federal Circuit refused to follow,...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | June 30, 2015

Padmapper and 3Taps Settle Suit with craigslist over Use of Real Estate Facts

Padmapper and 3Taps ended their three-year legal fight with craigslist on Monday, agreeing to stop using classified ad data from craigslist on their own sites. 3Taps has also agreed to pay craigslist $1 million on the condition that craigslist donate the money to EFF. While we’re pleased...

Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar, Maira Sutton | June 30, 2015

As Diego Stands Trial, Show Your Support for Open Access

UPDATE 06/30/2015: The hearing has been postponed and will proceed in October. Thanks to everyone who helped us raise awareness today.

"Access to knowledge is a global right."
These are the words of student Diego Gomez, who begins his trial in Colombia today, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Michael Barclay | June 29, 2015

Bad News: Supreme Court Refuses to Review Oracle v. Google API Copyright Decision

Sadly, today the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google. Oracle claims a copyright on the Java Application Programming Interface (API), and that Google infringed that copyright by using certain Java APIs in the Android OS. The Federal...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | June 29, 2015

Stupid Patent of the Month: Wetro Lan Sues Entire Network Security Industry With Expired Garbage Patent

Like all of the patents we highlight in our Stupid Patent of the Month series, this month’s winner, U.S. Patent No. 6,795,918, is a terrible patent. But it earns a special place in the Pantheon of stupid patents because it is being wielded in one of most outrageous trolling...

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EFF Anniversary Minicon

Caving to Government Pressure, Visa and MasterCard Shut Down Payments to Backpage.com

Tuesday Court Hearing Over Absurd Copyright Claim in Family Home Movie

Let's Encrypt: Uma Autoridade Certificadora Gratuita e Automatizada

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

EFF Launches Badge Hacking Contest for DEF CON 23

Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests

EFF Is Turning 25 and We Want to Celebrate With You

Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria

Same Old FISA Court? Thoughts on the Opinion Extending Mass Surveillance for Six More Months

EFF Stands With Innovative Developers in the Wake of Oracle v. Google

Padmapper and 3Taps Settle Suit with craigslist over Use of Real Estate Facts

As Diego Stands Trial, Show Your Support for Open Access

Bad News: Supreme Court Refuses to Review Oracle v. Google API Copyright Decision

Stupid Patent of the Month: Wetro Lan Sues Entire Network Security Industry With Expired Garbage Patent

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