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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Great news! Senators Sanders and Brown ask the White House to make the "ACTA" Internet censorship treaty text public. http://eff.org/r.3cZ

Kenton A. Hoover
Kenton A. Hoover
They can ask...
8 hours ago
Matthew Stinar
Matthew Stinar
This is badly needed.
7 hours ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation The Emptywheel crew continues to dig through our mountains of newly-released telco immunity lobbying documents.

Rahul Jain
Rahul Jain
Thank you!
Yesterday at 10:20am
Robert
Robert
Your labor of love is another generations freedom.
Yesterday at 10:45am
Alex
Alex
keep up the good work
Yesterday at 1:05pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Tiburon, CA to photograph every vehicle license plate entering and leaving town

Source: eff.org
TIBURON, Calif.(KCBS) -- The town council unanimously approved a police program that will photograph the license plate of every vehicle entering and leaving town.
David
David
We are moments away from a license plate scrambler. I feel it!
Yesterday at 3:41pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation "For those waiting for the new White House to make good on its vow to
bring transparency to the executive branch, it was another
disappointing brush with Obama opacity..."

Source: www.washingtonpost.com
As the first congressional investigation of the Fort Hood massacre began Thursday, a curious collection of witnesses assembled in the committee room.
Nicole Paluszek
Nicole Paluszek
:( blah...
November 20 at 10:35pm
Joe
Joe
I don't even have the energy to make some passive aggressive "change" comment at this point. This is just shameful.
November 20 at 11:15pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition

Source: eff.org
This is the third in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement.Now that we've described the proposed settlement agreement's biggest potential upside for the public—expanded online access to books, particularly out-of-pr...
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation UK Action Alert: Stop the Pirate Finder General!

Source: www.eff.org
Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK's First Secretary of State, has applied for permission to grant himself (and future politicians) the power to re-write Britain's core copyright legislation with almost no Parliamentary debate, using fast-track secondary legislation. ...
Nicole Paluszek
Nicole Paluszek
Stop these orwellian psychopaths!
November 19 at 9:57pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF has a pretty good record of busting bogus patents.

Source: w2.eff.org
Tired of bogus software patents? So are we! To combat these annoying and often dangerous legal weapons, EFF has launched the Patent Busting Project to take down some of worst offenders.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent -- And We Need Your Help!

Source: eff.org
Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights.EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threate...
Nicole Paluszek
Nicole Paluszek
Put someone in a position of authority and they'll do whatever they can get away with. We need to draw the line and send the crooks packing.
November 19 at 10:07pm
Eric
Eric
After a quick look at the claims, I think one could easily argue that alt.binaries.porn is prior art.
November 20 at 5:49pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws

Source: www.boingboing.net
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.
mark
mark
Next will be the Handicapper General, I presume?
November 19 at 12:14pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Editorial on ACTA, the secret copyright treaty, by EFF's Eddan Katz

Source: www.edri.org
The negotiating partners of ACTA have announced that the next round of negotiations on ACTA will take place in Mexico in January and have promised to conclude the agreement in 2010. As the last edition ...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
November 19 at 11:29am
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation SF Weekly on San Francisco police seizures of DJ's laptops

Source: www.sfweekly.com
San Francisco News - The SF Weekly is the definitive source for San Francisco news coverage, politics, and blogs.
Nicole Paluszek
Nicole Paluszek
Time for everyone to send a clear signal to the state that we will not tolerate these violations of our constitutional rights!
Zero tolerance for police violence!
November 19 at 9:13am
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation TechDirt: Sony Pictures Having Its Best Box Office Year Ever... Still Blaming Piracy For Killing The Business

David Daigneault
David Daigneault
Well said, Dustin.
November 18 at 1:14pm
Nicole Paluszek
Nicole Paluszek
The moment you realize IP is a monopoly grant designed to keep power consolidated in big business, and not a genuine human right, you realize that "piracy" in the sense being used here doesn't really exist. It is IP that violates real people's real property rights, not "piracy".
November 19 at 9:07am
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation ACLU-NC’s new Demand Your dotRights site and video to take control of your personal privacy online!

Source: tr.im
When you browse through online stacks of information, you are leaving a trail that reveals a lot about you: interests, hobbies, habits, and concerns.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation Handy Chart Tracks PATRIOT Act Amendments

Source: www.wired.com
Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a
Peter K. Finke
Peter K. Finke
Thanks for sharing this. Let's hope we have turned the page on a very dark chapter of American history.
November 17 at 6:07pm
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation WaPo on ACTA's global DMCA: "Copyright overreach goes on world tour"

Source: eff.org
Some of the better ideas in the computing industry never make it into stores, and not because of expensive hardware, complex code or inadequate bandwidth. You can blame laws that keep otherwise desirable products off of the market.