Late last week, a group of four peers on Britain's House of Lords attempted to insert the entirety of the “Snoopers' Charter”—the Internet surveillance bill that was savaged by a Parliamentary overview, and abandoned by the UK's current coalition government—into a new counter-terrorism bill.
Under an incredibly...

You may have heard that the Patriot Act is set to expire soon. That’s not quite the case. The Patriot Act was a large bill, as were the reauthorizations that followed in 2005 and 2006. Not all of it sunsets. But three provisions do expire on June 1st: Section 215,...

UPDATE: In October 2016, the D.C. District Court held that Backpage.com cannot preemptively challenge the constitutionality of the SAVE Act under the First Amendment. Because the company asserted that its intention is not to host ads for illegal sex trafficking, but rather ads for legal adult services, Backpage does...

With your support, EFF has helped raise the bar in ongoing discussions about how to better protect users against the abuse of their rights through DRM. Our submission [PDF] to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at an Expert Group Meeting on Consumer Protection...

El 28 de enero se celebra el día Internacional de la protección de datos. La celebración tiene como propósito llamar la atención de la ciudadanía acerca de las mejores prácticas para defender nuestros derechos fundamentales frente a la vigilancia desmedida y descontrolada llevada a cabo por la policía y los...

The 911 system has a problem. As people switch from landlines to mobile phones, more and more 911 calls come from wireless devices. But under current FCC E911 (Enhanced 911) regulations, carriers are only required to provide 911 dispatchers with a mobile phone’s location to within 300 meters, and aren’t...