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Event | February 23, 2015

Research Without Borders Fair Use Panel

To mark Fair Use Week, EFF Director of Copyright Activism Parker Higgins will join a panel on fair use in art and photography as part of Columbia University's ongoing "Research Without Borders" series.

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Eva Galperin | February 19, 2015

Russian Researchers Uncover Sophisticated NSA Malware

Over the weekend Russian IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab released a report about a new family of malware dubbed "The Equation Family". The software appears, from Kaspersky's description, to be some of the most advanced malware ever seen. It is composed of several different pieces of software, which Kaspersky...

Deeplinks Blog by Joseph Bonneau, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Peter Eckersley | February 19, 2015

Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on its Recent Laptops

News broke last night that Lenovo has been shipping laptops with a horrifically dangerous piece of software called Superfish, which tampers with Windows' cryptographic security to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against the user's browsing. This is done in order to inject advertising into secure HTTPS pages, a feature most users...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | February 18, 2015

Innovation Act Needed More Than Ever As Patent Trolls Roll On

Patent trolls are still at it. A new report from Unified Patents, found that 449 patent cases were filed in district court in January 2015—a 36% increase over January 2014. The growth was fueled largely by patent trolls, who filed more than half of the month’s cases. This...

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Raynor v. State of Maryland

Should police should be allowed to collect and analyze “inadvertently shed” DNA without a warrant or consent, such as swabbing cells from a drinking glass or a chair? That’s the question in Raynor v. State of Maryland, where the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled this sort of DNA collection did...

Press Release | February 18, 2015

EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection

San Francisco - People have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy when it comes to their genetic material, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues in an amicus brief filed this week with the Supreme Court of the United States.
EFF is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments in...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | February 18, 2015

Success! General License Allows Export of Communications Tools to Sudan

Fighting against the sanctions regime for the right to information and innovation can sometimes feel like a cat and mouse game, but today, citizens of Sudan are like the cats that got the cream. After years of campaigning from Sudanese and international activists alike, a success: The Office of...

Press Release | February 17, 2015

Anonymous Companies Fighting National Security Letters Back Twitter’s NSL Battle

San Francisco - Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for information known as national security letters (NSLs) are backing Twitter's lawsuit over its rights to publish information about NSLs it may have received. The companies—a telecom and an Internet company—are represented by the...

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Twitter v. Holder

Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for information known as national security letters (NSLs) are backing Twitter’s lawsuit over its rights to publish information about NSLs it may have received. The companies—a telecom and an Internet company—are represented by EFF.
Twitter filed...

Press Release | February 17, 2015

Photo Hobbyist Attacked by Patent Bully

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), together with Durie Tangri LLP, is defending a photo hobbyist against an outrageous patent suit from a company that claims to hold the rights to online competitions on social networks where users vote for the winner.
“It’s part of our job...

Event | March 19, 2015

Sunshine Week Happy Hour Presenting the Foilies

Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, and Muckrock for a Sunshine Week happy hour. At the event, we will announce the dubious winners of "The Foilies," share tales of Freedom of Information Act shenanigans, and even file public records live on site.
EFF investigative researcher...

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Garfum v. Reflections By Ruth

EFF, together with Durie Tangri LLP, is defending a photo hobbyist against an outrageous patent suit from a company that claims to hold the rights to online competitions on social networks where users vote for the winner.EFF’s client runs Bytephoto.com, which has hosted user-submitted photos and run competitions for the...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | February 16, 2015

EFF Calls on Syrian Government to Release Human Rights Defenders

EFF has joined seventy human rights and free speech organizations in calling on the Syrian government to release Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghrer, three free speech activists who were arrested on February 16, 2012 in a raid on the offices of the Syrian Center for Media...

Event | April 18, 2015

Digital Search & Seizure: Burning Issues After Riley v. California

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury will be discussing constitutional challenges to electronic searches and seizures following the US Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Riley v. California at the Northern California Association of Law Librarians 2015 Spring Institute.

Event | April 17, 2015

Understanding New Surveillance Tools: Cell Phone Tracking, Stingrays, Hemisphere & More

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury will be discussing legal challenges to cell phone surveillance at the National Defender Investigator Association (NDIA) National Conference.

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Research Without Borders Fair Use Panel

Russian Researchers Uncover Sophisticated NSA Malware

Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on its Recent Laptops

Innovation Act Needed More Than Ever As Patent Trolls Roll On

Raynor v. State of Maryland

EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection

Success! General License Allows Export of Communications Tools to Sudan

Anonymous Companies Fighting National Security Letters Back Twitter’s NSL Battle

Twitter v. Holder

Photo Hobbyist Attacked by Patent Bully

Sunshine Week Happy Hour Presenting the Foilies

Garfum v. Reflections By Ruth

EFF Calls on Syrian Government to Release Human Rights Defenders

Digital Search & Seizure: Burning Issues After Riley v. California

Understanding New Surveillance Tools: Cell Phone Tracking, Stingrays, Hemisphere & More

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