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Back in 2007, Stephanie Lenz posted a video to YouTube of her children dancing and running around in her kitchen. Stephanie wanted to share the moment with her family and friends. But they weren't the only ones watching: a few months later, Univers...
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Tired of the endless unsolicited entreaties to
They can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text.- FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, September 27, 2010[W]e're in favor of strong encryption, robust encryption. The country needs it, industry need...
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California Northern District Court - Contract - Other Contract - Graf v. Zynga Game Network, Inc. - Justia Federal Dockets and Filings
The Las Vegas Review-Journal online copyright infringement lawsuit campaign sustained a setback Tuesday when a judge granted a real estate agent's motion for dismissal, ruling his posting of part of a Review-Journal story on his website amounted to fair use under copyright law.
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal, in its continuing series of excellent articles about online privacy, released a controversial story about Facebook apps transmitting identification information to outside advertisers — in clear violation of Facebook policies. In response, a number of other...
Electronic Frontier Foundation Android and iOS respect your geolocation settings. Check them!
Geotag, You're It! What Your Smartphone Might Be Saying Behind Your Back | Privacy Rights Clearingho
Snap a photo of a sunset with your iPhone and you can upload it to Twitter with a few clicks. But your smartphone might be transmitting more than a pretty photograph. It could be collecting and storing data about your real-time location – and then broadcasting that information when you upload photo...
Electronic Frontier Foundation Congratulations to EFF's 19th Annual Pioneer Award Winners!
Transparency Activist, Public Domain Scholar, Legal Blogger, and Imprisoned E-Voting Researcher Win.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce four winners of its 2010 Pioneer Awards: transparency activist Stephen Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; legal blogger Pamela Jones and the website Groklaw; a...
Telecommunications companies in recent years have begun new services and made system upgrades that create technical obstacles to surveillance.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Copyright Group Gets Sued by Competitor (NSFW)
Media Copyright Group, which represents various adult companies in a number of BitTorrent John Doe piracy lawsuits, has been hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit by a competitor, U.S. Copyright Group.
Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a judge in Washington, D.C., to dismiss copyright infringement claims against two defendants wrongfully ensnared in mass movie-downloading lawsuits.In an amicus brief filed Friday,...
Electronic Frontier Foundation Another major Facebook privacy fail: WSJ reports that all of the top 10 apps on the Facebook Platform are transmitting users' Facebook data to advertisers, while 3 of them are also leaking their users' *friends'* data. If you want to stop this from happening to your data, go into your Facebook privacy settings now, fo...llow the "Applications and Websites" link, and use the option to "turn off all platform applications". You won't be able to use any apps, but no app will be able to get your data.
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Many of the most popular applications on the social-networking site Facebook have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investiga...
EFF asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday to review its ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk, a decision that could undermine the rights of software buyers and other consumers.Last month, a three-judge panel held that copyright's first sale doctri...
While noting that it took seriously the concerns raised by EFF and others in an amicus brief, a federal judge in New Jersey in the case of U.S. v. Lowson yesterday decided to delay a decision on the thorny question of whether the government can use t...
