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New FCC Chairman Begins Attacks on Internet Privacy

UPDATE: 3/2/17 Updated to include which types of consumer data were impacted by these changes.
Your ISP knows a lot about who you are and what you do online. Their records just got a whole lot less secure.
Newly minted Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai just granted...

EFF at the TACD Annual Forum

EFF is presenting on net neutrality and trade at this multi-stakeholder event which brings together the consumer movement from both sides of the Atlantic to define a consumer agenda for trans-Atlantic markets: safeguarding protections and making p rogress in times of political change.

Canadian International Pharmacy Association AGM

EFF will be presenting at the Canadian International Pharmacy Association AGM on how Shadow Regulation is used to censor the Internet, not only to remove listings for Canadian pharmacies, but also against targets of allegations of copyright infringement, political leaks, and other forms of "problematic" expression.

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An Illinois Court Just Didn’t Get It: We Are Entitled to Expect Privacy In Our Smart Meter Data, Which Reveals What’s Going On Inside Our Homes

Cities across the country are switching to wireless smart meters. You may even have one in your home. Utility companies say the new technology helps consumers monitor their energy use and potentially save money. But smart meters also reveals intimate details about what’s going on inside the home. By collecting...

Property Rights In The Digital Age

Join EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow for a panel discussion on the limits of ownership in the digital age. You can learn more about the event, and RSVP here: https://righttorepairdigitalage.splashthat.com/
Other panelists include: Alden Abbott, Deputy Director of Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage...

THE MORAL CHARACTER OF HACKING

Offensive hacking is fun! Unfortunately there is no good way to do it without going to jail or working for the government. In this talk Cooper Quintin, EFF Staff Technologist, will give some reasons that you might not want to work for the government and offer some fun and inspiring...

Bernstein Institute for Human Rights Annual Symposium 2017

Governments around the world are cracking down on the space civil society needs to protect fundamental rights and freedoms. This year's annual Bernstein Institute for Human Rights conference will provide a rich analysis of the measures governments are using to silence dissent, while also examining legal strategies used by human...

Data Brokers: Don’t Let Your Data be Used For Human Rights Abuses

EFF, Amnesty International, Color of Change, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and our other coalition partners are urging data brokers to take a stand against government surveillance and discrimination based on religion, national origin, and immigration status.
As explained in a joint statement released today, data brokers collect...

Fair Use as Consumer Protection

Talking about fair use often means talking about your right to re-use existing copyrighted works in the process of making something new - to make remixes and documentaries, parodies, or even to build novel Internet search tools. But now that copyright-protected software is in almost everything (including our cars, our...

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Copyright Law Versus Internet Culture

Throughout human history, culture has been made by people telling one another stories, building on what has come before, and making it their own. Every generation, every storyteller puts their own spin on old tales to reflect their own values and changing times.
This creative remixing happens today and...

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Neal v. Fairfax County Police Department

In 2017, EFF urged the Supreme Court of Virginia to protect the state's residents from a police surveillance database created with automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Fairfax County Police Department uses ALPRs that read every license plate that goes by, and stores the records for up to a year. Harrison...

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