Electronic Frontier Foundation Stories

EFF Opposes America's Proposed TikTok Ban 67
EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire' 16
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28
EFF Proposes Addressing Online Harms with 'Privacy-First' Policies 32
EFF, Cory Doctorow, Others Speak in Commemoration of Aaron Swartz Day 64
'Public Resource' Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use 66
EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy 16
EFF Says California Cops Are Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Anti-Abortion States 240
US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents 110
Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant 79
EFF Warns US 'Deserves Stronger Spyware Protections Than Biden's Executive Order' 31
'The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute For Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation' 76
GitHub and EFF Back YouTube Ripper In Legal Battle With the RIAA 20
San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader 114
Aaron Swartz Day Commemorated With International Hackathon 27
Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let's Encrypt, Dies at 43 35
Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections For Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post 105
'Toward a Future We Want to Live In' - EFF Celebrates 32nd Birthday 25
Court Rules DMCA Does Not Override First Amendment's Anonymous Speech Protections 45
It's Back: Senators Want 'EARN IT' Bill To Scan All Online Messages 212
Are Social Media Companies Censoring Us? Is It Ever Justified? 398
NBC: 'You Probably Don't Need to Rely on a VPN Anymore' 166
EFF Board of Directors Removes 76-Year-Old John Gilmore 243
With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension 48
Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters 29
Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple's Plans To Scan Messages and iCloud Images 55
EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program 57
'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months 98
EFF Argues 'If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access' 89
PayPal Shuts Down Long-Time Tor Supporter With No Recourse 152
College Student Sues Proctorio After Source Code Copyright Claim 35
Proctorio Sued For Using DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 43
EFF Partners With DuckDuckGo 42
Privacy Advocate Confronts ACLU Over Its Use of Google and Facebook's Targeted Advertising 20
Richard Stallman's Return Denounced by the EFF, Tor Project, Mozilla, and the Creator of Rust 640
Accused Murderer Wins Right To Check Source Code of DNA Testing Kit 167
EFF, Cory Doctorow Warn About the Dangers of De-Platforming and Censorship 231
Are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft 'Digital Warlords'? 66
EFF Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Account of the Fight to Save .ORG 46
Edward Snowden Urges Donations to the EFF 99
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating 82
Facebook's Criticism of Apple's Tracking Change Called 'Laughable' by EFF 46
Aaron Swartz's Memory Honored with Virtual Hackathon 30
EFF Launches New Podcast: How to Fix the Internet 76
HP Replaces 'Free Ink for Life' Plan With '99 Cents a Month Or Your Printer Stops Working' 193
EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL 49
Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras 84
What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230? 519
Court Upholds Public Right of Access To Court Documents 19
Twitter Accused of Obliterating Its Users' Privacy Choices 102
What Happens When Tech Companies Offer to Fight Coronavirus With Digital Surveillance? 55
EFF: .Org Sale 'Threatens Instability and Dysfunction' 26
Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department 135
Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? 128
EFF Defends Bruce Perens Victory Against 'Open Source Security' in Appeals Court 30
EFF Files Amicus Brief In Google v. Oracle, Arguing APIs Are Not Copyrightable 147
Internet Pioneers Fight For Control of .Org Registry By Forming a Nonprofit Alternative 17
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
EFF Challenges Ring's Spokesperson Shaq To A Discussion About Police Surveillance 64
EFF Wins Access To License Plate Reader Data To Study Law Enforcement Use 62
Judges Begin Ruling Against Some Porn Purveyors' Use of Copyright Lawsuits 39
Google's Plans for Chrome Extensions 'Won't Really Help Security', Argues EFF 35
EFF Warns Proposed Law Could Create 'Life-Altering' Copyright Lawsuits 117
EFF Argues For 'Empowerment, Not Censorship' Online 62
Privacy-Focused Android Q Still Lets Advertisers Track You 63
Redditor Allowed To Stay Anonymous, Court Rules 131
Censorship 'Can't Be The Only Answer' To Anti-Vax Misinformation, Argues EFF 313
EFF: Facebook Should Notify Users Who Interact With Fake Police 'Sock Puppet' Accounts 100
The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan 204
Larry Lessig Will Headline Friday's 'Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain' Event 21
Electric Scooter Rental Service Bird Sent a 'Notice of Claimed Infringement' To a News Site For Reporting On Lawful Re-use of Scooters 114
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location 60
EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities 24
EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling 132
EFF To Japan: Reject Website Blocking 41
Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE 677
EFF Sues To Invalidate FOSTA, An Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law 89
EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure 58
Facebook Inches Toward More Transparency and Accountability 32
EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems 110
The EFF Hosts a 'John Perry Barlow Symposium' Next Saturday 14
North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes 214
New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police 248
FBI Paid Geek Squad Repair Staff As Informants 205
Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement 149
EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive 'Piracy' Filters 55
EFF Founder John Perry Barlow Has Died At Age 70 61
EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware 35
Calls to Action on the Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Aaron Swartz 151
Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules 82
EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS 214
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities 98
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
EFF Beats 'Stupid' Patent Troll In Court 70
Hollywood's International War on Kodi Plugins And Video-Streaming Boxes 57
EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization 221
Americans Plan Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week 110
ISPs Claim a Privacy Law Would Weaken Online Security, Increase Pop-Ups 86
EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor 108
'Podcasting Patent' Is Totally Dead, Appeals Court Rules 30
HP Patents 'Reminder Messages' 68
Let's Encrypt Criticized Over Speedy HTTPS Certifications 207
American ISPS Are Now Fighting State Broadband Privacy Proposals 74
The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains 111
Zillow Drops Complaint Against Blogger After Backlash Over Copyright Claim 118
EFF Launches New AI Progress Measurement Project 48
EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants 147
EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard' 158
DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow 191
EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students 84
Troll With 'Stupid Patent' Sues EFF. EFF Sues Them Back 68
London Police Ink Shadowy Deal With Industry On Website Takedowns 23
EFF Issues April Fool's Day Newsletter 21
Maryland Legislator Wants To Keep State University Patents Away From Trolls 52
Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court 102
Hey CIA, You Held On To Security Flaw Information -- But Now It's Out. That's Not How It Should Work 246
Three Privacy Groups Challenge The FBI's Malware-Obtained Evidence 118
The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles 502
Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws 225
Interviews: Ask Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst A Question 167
2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic 91
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? 225
EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook 75
Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale 17
Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco 18
EFF Suggests Halloween Costume To Protest Facial Recognition Databases 65
Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones 432
EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills 195
Senator Questions The Declassification Policies of America's National Intelligence Office 28
EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence 250
Senator Urges Colleagues to Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking 41
Google, Apple, Mozilla, and the EFF Support Microsoft's Fight Against Gag Orders 55
How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data 217
US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter 348
EFF Accuses T-Mobile of Violating Net Neutrality With Throttled Video 57
EFF Asks FTC To Demand 'Truth In Labeling' For DRM 122
'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny 11
Malware Linked To Government of Kazakhstan Targets Journalists, Political Activists and Lawyers, Says Report 23
Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law 110
EFF Is Suing the US Government To Invalidate the DMCA's DRM Provisions 93
EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership 101
Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules 165
As It Searches For Suspects, The FBI May Be Looking At You 90
Court Slams Record Companies in New Vimeo/DMCA Ruling 23
Thousands of Email Addresses Accidentally Disclosed By Let's Encrypt 81
Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP 231
FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos 125
EFF Warns of Harsher CFAA 44
Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records 157
EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee 32
EFF Announces Certbot Client For Let's Encrypt 29
Humble Bundle Announces 'Hacker' Pay-What-You-Want Sale 52
Court Troubled By Surveillance Excesses At FBI, NSA 81
EFF Sues DOJ For Access To Secret Court Orders On Decryption 62
EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code 252
EFF's Cindy Cohn On Why 'Code Is Speech' Is Key To Apple vs. FBI 102
How Shari Steele Plans To Take Tor Mainstream 94
NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years 56
EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China 143
Malvertising Campaign Used a Free Certificate From Let's Encrypt 123
EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data 227
Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award 127
EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 63
Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director 33
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
EFF launches Site To Track Censored Content On Social Media 39
EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" 67
SIgn Of the Times: Calif. Privacy Protections Signed Into Law 41
EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy 232
EFF: DMCA Hinders Exposing More Software Cheats Like Volkswagen's 166
EFF Releases Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers 136
EFF and MuckRock Need Your Help Tracking Biometric Surveillance 19
EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing 75
Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games 111
Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims 141
Patent Issued Covering Phone Notifications of Delivery Time and Invoice Quantity 60
New Privacy Threat: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection 140
After EFF Effort, Infamous "Podcasting Patent" Invalidated 58
The DEA Disinformation Campaign To Hide Surveillance Techniques 46
'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple 116
ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules 153
USPTO Demands EFF Censor Its Comments On Patentable Subject Matter 71
EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car 292
EFF Questions US Government's Software Flaw Disclosure Policy 18
DuckDuckGo Donates $100,000 Among Four FOSS Projects 36
Patent Trolls On the Run But Not Vanquished Yet 56
Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing 154
EFF: Hundreds of S. Carolina Prisoners Sent To Solitary For Social Media Use 176
DMCA Exemption Campaign Would Let Fans Run Abandoned Games 157
DEA Hands MuckRock a $1.4 Million Estimate For Responsive Documents 136
Site Launches To Track Warrant Canaries 159
Hundreds Apply For FAA Drone Licenses 90
EFF Unveils Plan For Ending Mass Surveillance 282
EFF Takes On Online Harassment 189
EFF: Apple's Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App For iOS 220
Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance 440
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption 245
Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted 260
EFF Hints At Lawsuit Against Verizon For Its Stealth Cookies 81
The Fight Over the EFF's Secure Messaging Scoreboard 63
EFF Begins a Campaign For Secure and Usable Cryptography 96
EFF Rates Which Service Providers Side With Users 16
Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger 72
Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims 63
Judge Allows L.A. Cops To Keep License Plate Reader Data Secret 108
Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll 63
EFF's Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters 82
EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA 78
EFF Releases Wireless Router Firmware For Open Access Points 56
Australian Police Use Telcos For Cell "Tower Dump" of All Connected Users' Data 60
Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi 112
EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement 184
NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law 245
A Year After Snowden's Disclosures, EFF, FSF Want You To Fight Surveillance 108
EFF Tells Court That the NSA Knowingly and Illegally Destroyed Evidence 269
Federal Court Pulls Plug On Porn Copyright Shakedown 136
ACLU and EFF Endorse Weaker USA Freedom Act Passed By Committee 107
Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking 219
Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? 312
Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll 126
L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation 405
US Drops Link Sharing Charges Against Barrett Brown 40
3 Reasons To Hate Mass Surveillance; 3 Ways To Fight It 120
With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? 279
Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional 324
EFF Says Mark Shuttleworth Is Wrong About Trademark 103
Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance 234
Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling 162
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 307
Trove of NSA Documents and FISC Opinions Declassified Thanks to EFF Lawsuit 110
EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network 301
9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals 207
Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear 242
"Smart Plates" Could Betray California Drivers' Privacy 262
EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI 333
Yahoo Receives Special Recognition For Fighting For User Data Privacy 58
Federal Judge Rejects State Secrets Claims: EFF Case To Proceed 146
Inside the Electronic Frontier Foundation 98

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