Today, together with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression, EFF submitted an amicus brief in Lee v. Tam. Our brief discusses an unusual but important question: are registered trademarks government expression? It is important to get the dividing line between government and...

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, and 10 other technology company leaders trooped to Trump Tower in New York this week, where the President-elect told them they were “amazing” and said, “I’m here to make you folks do well.” He pledged to do “anything we...

For the sixth day of the 12 Days of 2FA, we turn to Twitter. Twitter calls its two-factor authentication system “Login Verification,” but the idea is exactly the same: signing in from a new browser will require something you have (like your phone) as well as something...

Imagine being convicted for logging into your spouse’s bank account to pay a bill, a roommate’s broadband account after service has gone down, or a sick friend’s Facebook page. In these cases, if you happen to receive an individualized message or popup banner stating that only legitimate account holders are...

New Law Will Help Preserve Net Neutrality and Privacy at the Local Level

San Francisco EFFers: you did it! Thanks in part to your phone calls and tweets to the Board of Supervisors, the Board unanimously passed an ordinance last night that will address the problem of landlords...

Should IP rights be enforced via shadow regulations that aren’t vetted or endorsed by users? According to a just-released report, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) thinks they should. We disagree.
We’ve written here about the danger posed by Internet regulation done through private agreements. These agreements,...

Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)—the leading Mexican digital rights organization—has released the 2016 ¿Quién defiende mis datos? report, which evaluates how well Mexican telecommunications companies protect their customers’ privacy. R3D’s second annual report examines publicly-available policies from eight of the biggest telecommunications companies: AT&T,...