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Litigation can always take twists and turns, but when EFF filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group in 2007 on behalf of Stephanie Lenz, few would have anticipated it would be ten years until the case was finally resolved. But today , at last, it is. Along the way, Lenz v. Universal helped strengthen fair use law and brought nationwide attention to the issues of copyright and fair use in new digital movie-making and sharing technologies. It all started when...
The Supreme Court handed down a landmark opinion today in Carpenter v. United States , ruling 5-4 that the Fourth Amendment protects cell phone location information. In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court recognized that location information, collected by cell providers like Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, creates a “detailed chronicle of a person’s physical presence compiled every day, every moment over years.” As a result, police must now get a warrant before obtaining this data. This is a...
Today we’re announcing the launch of STARTTLS Everywhere , EFF’s initiative to improve the security of the email ecosystem. Thanks to previous EFF efforts like Let's Encrypt , and Certbot , as well as help from the major web browsers, we've seen significant wins in encrypting the web . Now we want to do for email what we’ve done for web browsing: make it simple and easy for everyone to help ensure their communications aren’t vulnerable to mass surveillance. Note...
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