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Blue Spike v. Audible Magic

Blue Spike v. Audible Magic is a patent case in which EFF intervened in order to achieve greater public access to the proceedings.
In this case, Blue Spike accused Audible Magic of infringing various patents. The parties filed motions for summary judgment relating to various allegations made in the...

Press Release | November 30, 2016

CREDO Confirms It’s at Center of Long-Running Legal Fight Over NSLs

San Francisco - CREDO Mobile representatives confirmed today that their company was at the center of the long-running legal battle over the constitutionality of national security letters (NSLs), and published the letters the government sent three years ago.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has represented CREDO in this matter...

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Legal Case

2016 Internet Archive NSL

In this case, the Internet Archive pushed back against a formerly secret national security letter (NSL). Represented by EFF, the Archive informed the FBI that it did not have the information the agency was seeking and pointed out that NSL included misinformation about how to contest the accompanying gag order...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey, Dave Maass | November 29, 2016

Law Enforcement’s Secret 'Super Search Engine' Amasses Trillions of Phone Records for Decades

EFF Fights For More Disclosure About Hemisphere ProgramAlthough the government still hides too much information about a secret telephone records surveillance program known as Hemisphere, we have learned through EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits that police tout the massive database of private calls as “Google on Steroids"...

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MuckRock litigation

EFF helped online public records platform MuckRock successfully defend three lawsuits filed against it and one of its users over public records that allegedly contained trade secrets. This included vindicating MuckRock's First Amendment rights when a court repealed a previous order that required the platform to de-publish public records the...

Event | December 7, 2016

EFF BoF at the USENIX LISA16 Conference

Don't miss our Wednesday night EFF BOF! Join Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl, Systems Administrator Starchy Grant, and Membership Coordinator Maggie Kazmierczak for a candid Q&A about what we're doing at the intersection of tech and civil liberties.
EFF Birds of a Feather Session Wednesday, December...

Event

EFF at the Internet Governance Forum

All this week, EFF will be represented at a range of events at the Internet Governance Forum, including workshops and a main session on the nexus between the Internet and trade, as well as events on cybersecurity, encryption policy, access to knowledge, and the "right to be forgotten".

Event | November 30, 2016

Will Crime-Fighting Technologies Make Privacy Obsolete?

Powerful technologies from new surveillance systems to predictive algorithms are transforming the way law enforcement prevents and fights crime. They hold the promise of a much safer future, though they also threaten to encroach upon our privacy and to perpetuate biases against people based on their race or where they...

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