As expected, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the petition to appeal Judge Walker's Order Denying the Government and AT&T's Motions to Dismiss in our case against AT&T for its illegal cooperation and collaboration with the government's spying program. Granting the petition allows the...

E-voting machines in Broward County, Florida failed to start on time this morning, significantly delaying voting. The Election Protection Coalition (which includes EFF) is talking to the governor about keeping the polling places open longer. The Coalition is also considering legal action to that end. We will update...

Polls are opening around this country, but early voters are already facing significant delays due to voting machine problems. Machines have reportedly failed to turn on or have abruptly stopped working.
If you run into any problems, call 866-OUR-VOTE and make sure that...

As America goes to the polls, EFF's own podcast, Line Noise, returns with an interview with Representative Rush Holt, the politician behind the "gold standard" of e-voting reforms - a plan to introduce voter-verified paper records, public source releases, and random audits to all US electronic voting machines.
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The Department of Homeland Security today published a notice in the Federal Register disclosing the existence of a "new system of records" -- the Automated Targeting System (ATS) -- that assigns "risk assessments" to millions of U.S. citizens who seek "to enter or exit the United...

Come support EFF and hear DRM-free tunes from Calabash Music this Sunday at Little Baobab in San Francisco.
Calabash Music is a leading online distributor of music from around the world, providing its entire catalog in MP3 format and splitting sales revenue 50-50 with artists. Local DJ...

Hoping for a quiet, orderly election day? Dream on. In recent days -- a full week before most Americans go to the polls -- election observers have already reported problems with electronic voting machines:
Selections made on Diebold touchscreen voting machines in Florida have registered for...