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FEATURED UPDATE
You might have noticed something unusual when you visited the EFF website today: our site was “blocked” unless you shelled out for “premium” Internet access. As part of the day of action to support net neutrality , we decided to imagine what might happen if FCC Chairman Ajit Pai caves to industry pressure and abandons the net neutrality rules the FCC adopted just two years ago. If you don’t want to live in that future, it’s time to take action...
FEATURED UPDATE
San Francisco, California—While many technology companies continue to step up their privacy game by adopting best practices to protect sensitive customer information when the government demands user data, telecommunications companies are failing to prioritize user privacy when the government comes knocking, an EFF annual survey shows. Even tech giants such as Apple, Facebook, and Google can do more to fully stand behind their users. EFF’s seventh annual “Who Has Your Back” report, released today, digs into the ways many technology...
FEATURED UPDATE
In the United States, everyone – even people accused of offensive conduct – has the right to communicate anonymously, and that right should never be infringed without due process. Our Constitution guarantees this, whether your speech is popular or distasteful. At the same time, people who have been harmed by an anonymous speaker also have a right to seek justice, and, where necessary, that process can include unmasking the speaker. Following a rash of bogus defamation lawsuits designed primarily to...
Pull the Plug on Internet Spying Programs
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Every day, the U.S. government sweeps up the emails, text messages, and other online communications of millions of innocent Americans. Congress has a chance to rein in this unconstitutional spying when a key surveillance authority expires at the end of this year.
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Privacy Badger
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Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that...
Surveillance Self-Defense
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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices...
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Notice to the W3C of EFF's appeal of the Director's decision on EME
Dear Tim, Jeff, and W3C colleagues On behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I would like to formally submit our request for an appeal of the Director's decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions as a W3C Recommendation, announced on 6 July 2017 . The grounds for this appeal are...
We Must Keep the Internet Free and Open. EFF, Tech Giants, Startups and Internet Users Tell FCC: Don’t Sell Out Net Neutrality To Appease ISPs
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition of user advocacy groups and major technology companies and organizations joined forces today to protest the FCC’s plan to toss out net neutrality rules that preserve Internet freedom and prevent cable and telecommunications companies...
Today’s the Day: Let's Save Net Neutrality
You might have noticed something unusual when you visited the EFF website today: our site was “blocked” unless you shelled out for “premium” Internet access. As part of the day of action to support net neutrality , we decided to imagine what might happen if FCC Chairman...
The Death Knell is Tolling for Shipping & Transit LLC
Second court recommends awarding legal fees to defendant hit with patent troll’s lawsuit A court in the Southern District of Florida has recommended (PDF) that prolific patent troll Shipping & Transit LLC pay a defendant’s legal costs. This is the...
Californians: Demand That Your Legislature Restore Your Broadband Privacy Rights
Three state Senate committees will hear and vote on A.B 375 next week, legislation that will restore your broadband privacy rights. Earlier this year, Congress voted to repeal federal privacy rules that kept your ISP from selling information about who you are and what you do online without...
Stalemate Continues in Negotiations Over European Copyright Filters
This week is an important one in the ongoing negotiations over new copyright rules in Europe—which will have reverberations all over the world. As you may recall , the negotiations centre around two worrisome proposals being pushed by publisher and music industry lobby groups for inclusion in a new...
Requiring Judicial Review for Every Gag Order Is a Simple Way to Have Our Backs: Apple Does but Google and Facebook Fall Short
As a civil liberties organization, it’s our job to evaluate how tech companies handle our most private data and to encourage them to do better year over year. Our Who Has Your Back report is designed to do both, which is one reason we revisit the report’s criteria...
AT&T, Verizon, Other Telco Providers Lag Behind Tech Industry in Protecting Users from Government Overreach, EFF Annual Survey Shows
San Francisco, California—While many technology companies continue to step up their privacy game by adopting best practices to protect sensitive customer information when the government demands user data, telecommunications companies are failing to prioritize user privacy when the government comes knocking, an EFF annual survey shows. Even tech giants such...
New Research Estimates Value of Removing DRM Locks
Note: We’ve been in touch with a group of economists at the University of Glasgow who are investigating the market value on interoperability. Just in time for “Day Against DRM,” here are some of their initial conclusions. My co-authors and I at the University of Glasgow are investigating how...
Third Circuit Declares First Amendment Right to Record Police
The First Amendment protects our right to use electronic devices to record on-duty police officers, according to a new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Fields v. Philadelphia . This right extends to anyone with a recording device, journalists...
