EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Find Section 702 Surveillance Unconstitutional
As Congress considers reforming Section 702, the NSAâs warrantless surveillance authority, EFF and ACLU are asking a federal court of appeals in New York to find this surveillance unconstitutional....
View ArticleWhat if You Had to Worry About a Lawsuit Every Time You Linked to an Image...
A photographer and a photo agency are teaming up to restart a legal war against online linking in the United States.read more...
View ArticleThe USA Rights Act Protects Us From NSA Spying
A new bill introduced today in the Senate provides necessary protections from NSA surveillance programs. The USA Rights Act, introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and eleven...
View ArticleNo Warrantless Searching of Our Emails, Chats, and Browser Data
Congress is poised to vote on extending or reforming NSA surveillance powers in the coming weeks, and one issue has risen to the forefront of the fight: backdoor searches. These are searches in which...
View ArticleNew DOJ Policy on Gag Orders Is Good, But the Courts Could Have Done Better
The Department of Justice is making significant changes to its policy for seeking gag orders under Section 2705 of the Stored Communications Act. These orders routinely accompany search warrants,...
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Proposal to Restrict Technical Assistance Demands Before Secret Surveillance...
As we detailed yesterday, a bill introduced this week by Sens. Ron Wyden and Rand Paul would represent the most comprehensive reform so far of Section 702, the law that authorizes the government to...
View ArticleOakland Privacy and the Fight for Community Control
Many groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance work to ensure that their neighbors have the tools they need to maintain control of their information. Others devote their efforts to community...
View ArticleCertbot Development Livestream (Halloween Edition!)
UPDATE: Tune in to the livestream here!read more...
View ArticleIt's Time for Congress to Pass an Open Access Law
The public should be able to read and use the scientific research we paid for. Thatâs the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, or FASTR (S. 1701, H.R. 3427)....
View ArticleTwitterâs Ban on Russia Today Ads is Dangerous to Free Expression
Freedom of speech âpresupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will...
View ArticleA Win for Music Listeners in Florida: No Performance Right in Pre-1972...
Another court has ruled that the public still has the ability to play old music that almost everyone believed they lawfully had the ability to play. The Florida Supreme Court, following in the...
View ArticleEFF Files Brief in Support of Ability to Challenge Bad Patents at the Patent...
The Patent Office doesnât always do the best job. Thatâs how Personal Audio managed to get a patent on podcasting, even though other people were podcasting years before Personal Audio first applied...
View ArticleWho Speaks for The Billions of Victims of Mass Surveillance? Tech Companies...
Two clocks are ticking for US tech companies in the power centers of the modern world. In Washington, lawmakers are working to reform FISA Section 702 before it expires on December 31st, 2017. Section...
View ArticleStupid Patent of the Month: Bad Patent Goes Down Using Procedures at Patent...
At the height of the first dot-com bubble, many patent applications were filed that took common ideas and put them on the Internet. This monthâs stupid patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,738,155 (âthe...
View ArticleThis Weekend: Celebrate the Life and Work of Aaron Swartz at the Internet...
On November 4 and 5, the Internet Archive will host the Fifth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon. Aaron would have turned 31 on November 8. The late activist, political organizer, programmer, and...
View ArticleDo Not Track Implementation Guide Launched
Today we are releasing the implementation guide for EFFâs Do Not Track (DNT) policy. For years users have been able to set a Do Not Track signal in their browser, but there has been little guidanceÂ...
View ArticleEFF to ICANN's Registrars: Don't Pick Up the Censor's Pen
All this week, EFF is at the annual general meeting of ICANN, the global multi-stakeholder regulatory authority for Internet domain names and IP addresses. Our focus during this meeting is on speaking...
View ArticleEFF to ICANN's Registries: Don't Pick Up the Censor's Pen
This week EFF is in Abu Dhabi to deliver a message to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and to its contracted domain name registries and registrarsâdon't pick up the...
View ArticleEFF to ICANN: Don't Pick Up the Censor's Pen
EFF is at ICANN's 60th meeting in Abu Dhabi this week. Along with other members of ICANN's Non-Commercial Users Constituency, we are here to stand up for the rights of ordinary Internet users in the...
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