Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance
This week, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott used recent terrorist threats as the backdrop of a dire warning to Australians that “for some time to come, the delicate balance between freedom and...
View ArticleCounter-Surveillance Success Stories to Inspire Digital Rights Advocates
Concerned European Internet users will descend upon Brussels on September 26 to participate in Freedom Not Fear 2014—a European week of action aimed to fight against a widespread surveillance state....
View ArticleEFF Wins Release of Warner Bros. Documents On Robo-Takedown System
A federal judge in Florida ruled Thursday that Warner Brothers Entertainment must release key information about its automated scheme to send copyright infringement notices to websites. The documents...
View ArticleEFF Wins Release of Warner Bros. Documents On Robo-Takedown System
A federal judge in Florida ruled Thursday that Warner Brothers Entertainment must release key information about its automated scheme to send copyright infringement notices to websites. The documents...
View ArticleSerial Litigant Blue Spike Wins September’s Stupid Patent of the Month
Blue Spike LLC is a patent litigation factory. At one point, it filed over 45 cases in two weeks. It has sued a who’s who of technology companies, ranging from giants to startups, Adobe to Zeitera....
View ArticleHow to Remove ComputerCOP
As EFF outlined in a special report, ComputerCOP is a piece of “Internet Safety” software of dubious value that law enforcement agencies around the country have distributed to families for free. One of...
View ArticleDear Facebook: Sorry is a Start. Now Let's See Solutions.
When it comes to Facebook’s real names policy, it’s really clear—something needs to change. Over the last few weeks, we’ve joined dozens of advocates in saying so. And in a meeting with LGBTQ and...
View ArticleKnowledge Should Not Be Trapped Behind A Paywall: Get Ready For Open Access Week
Open Access Week is less than a month away! Now in its eighth year, Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and...
View ArticleEU-US Trade Negotiations Continue Shutting out the Public—When Will They Learn?
Negotiators from across the Atlantic met this week in Chevy Chase, Maryland to continue discussing the terms of the EU-US trade agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)....
View ArticleHow CloudFlare Moved the Web Toward Ubiquitous HTTPS
EFF has a long running-mission to Encrypt the Web. To make the Web more secure, more private, and more censorship-resistant, we need to completely replace the insecure HTTP protocol with HTTPS. That...
View ArticleAdobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local...
View ArticleDEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals 15 Major Vulnerabilities
“I could take down the internet with that, and so could you.” Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer of CIA’s venture capital arm, didn’t mince words when he mentioned the security flaws in home...
View ArticleIn Hotfile Docs, Warner Hid References to “Robots” And Its Deliberate Abuse...
After months of delay, Warner has finally released documents detailing its notice and takedown practices. The documents were filed under seal in the now-defunct Hotfile litigation until a federal court...
View ArticleFor Shame: Gannett Abuses DMCA to Take Down Political Speech
Like clockwork, another news organization is abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s hair-trigger take down process to stifle political commentary just when that commentary is most timely. This...
View ArticleEFF to Court: A Trademark Is Not A Censorship Tool
Any organization that takes a stand on controversial issues can expect some criticism. And this criticism might involve someone commenting on the organization’s trademarked name or logo. For example,...
View ArticleNintendo Updates Take Wii U Hostage Until You "Agree" to New Legal Terms
When you buy a device, you expect to own it. You expect to be able to open it up, mess with it, and improve it. At the very least, you expect it to continue to work for its intended purpose. What you...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Users Want Copyright to Respect Creators, Free Expression,...
Canadian digital rights organization, OpenMedia, released a copyright report today that crowdsourced input from users from around the world. Their survey asked users to express their thoughts about...
View ArticleLatest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term...
Today Wikileaks published a new draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)’s intellectual property chapter. This draft text, from May 2014, gives us another look into the current state of...
View ArticleEFF Response to FBI Director Comey's Speech on Encryption
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech yesterday reiterating the FBI’s nearly twenty-year-old talking points about why it wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it....
View ArticleWhat Are You Doing For Open Access Week?
This Monday, October 20 marks the first day of Open Access Week, an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the...
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