A blog post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation makes the case that the United States is jeopardizing its position in the worldwide cloud-computing market by failing to provide the kinds of privacy assurances demanded by international laws.
Moreover, the authors contend that U.S. officials are speaking out of both sides of their mouths on the issue.
Most of us think of drones in the military context - they're being used over there to watch and kill enemy combatants - and, collaterally, innocent civilians. Your opinion of their use likely dovetails with your opinion of the wars. Read more
Could the Electronic Frontier Foundation - that bulwark of free speech -- possibly have caved in to the run-amok censors masquerading as British judges? Read more
Truste, a company focused on protecting online privacy and security, is defending itself against complaints from a privacy group about its role in the creation of a Tracking Protection List (TPL) for users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Web browser. Read more
What would copyright-infringing porn downloaders - and those wrongly accused of being such - do without the support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
I'll tell you what: They'd get their pants sued off ... and not in a manner that anyone but a copyright troll would consider fair or just. Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation this morning is trumpeting a legal victory in behalf of 670 anonymous file downloaders who stood to have their taste in pornography publicly revealed by an adult movie producer's questionable strategy and dragnet subpoena underlying a copyright lawsuit.
The EFF and other consumer rights advocates have been pushing back against these types of tactics that have come to be known as "pay-up-or-else" litigation.
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From today's EFF press release announcing that the lawsuit has been dismissed: Read more
Back in April 2008 I wrote about the curious case of UMG vs. Augusto, in which the music Goliath was suing an eBay David for auctioning promotional music CDs he bought up on the cheap from disc jockeys who received them unsolicited and free from UMG.
UMG argued that such resales are prohibited solely because UMG slapped labels on the CDs reading "promotional use only, not for sale." Read more
That enormous sigh of relief you heard yesterday was likely from 5,400 unidentified porn downloaders reacting to a West Virginia judge's ruling that an adult-film producer cannot force their unmasking in an effort to sue them for copyright infringement.
It's a case we first highlighted Nov. 29.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling the judge's decision "a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls." Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is leaping to the defense of adult video aficionados who have found themselves targeted by what the group says is a concerted effort by copyright trolls to cash in on the natural reluctance of porn watchers to be publicly identified. Read more
It was almost two years ago now that we wrote about the Electronic Frontier Foundation's attempt to bust a patent covering the distribution of music files over the Internet that is held by Seer Systems, a one-man band that vigorously disputes the EFF's description of its patent as bogus. Read more
A new plugin for Firefox from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and The Tor Project allows you to encrypt all of the information you send to popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites. This means any information you send will be encrypted in transit and fairly safe from snooping and sniffing. Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today warned that more than 80 percent of browsers reveal identifiable "fingerprints" that could allow a user's Web surfing to be tracked. The privacy watchdog urged that greater attention be paid to this by the public and policy makers. Read more
Online privacy is a hot topic and the accuracy and detail with which you can be tracked as you bounce from Web site to Web site should be an issue of great concern to both consumers and corporate IT.
Many people say they don't really care about being tracked, arguing that they have nothing to hide about where they browse and with whom they communicate, so nothing needs to be kept private.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation this morning is issuing a call to arms regarding what it calls a "loophole" in 'Net neutrality regulations being proposed by the Federal Communications Commission.
Today marks the FCC's deadline for initial public comment on that proposal.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today has aimed a demonstrably potent weapon -- the spotlight of public shame -- at those corporations and individuals who abuse copyright claims to stifle free speech.
From an EFF press release:
"Free speech in the 21st century often depends on incorporating video clips and other content from various sources," explained EFF Senior Staff Attorney and Kahle Promise Fellow Corynne McSherry. "It's what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does every night. This is 'fair use' of copyrighted or trademarked material and protected under U.S. law. But that hasn't stopped thin-skinned corporations and others from abusing the legal system to get these new works removed from the Internet. We wanted to document this censorship for all to see." Read more
A 12 million digit prime number, the largest such number ever discovered, has landed a voluntary math research group a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The number known as a Mersenne prime, is the 45th known Mersenne prime, written shorthand as 2 to the power of 43,112,609, minus 1 . A Mersenne number is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two, the group stated. Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has jumped into the Google Books controversy. The privacy watchdog group wants pressure put on Google to build significant privacy protections into its Book Search service. The group says the service gives Google access to new personal information. Read more
A wiki operator who was browbeaten by Apple's legal team into removing posts about circumventing the company's music-playback software tells me he is relieved that the iTunes proprietor has changed its tune and he'll be able to restore the disputed pages. Read more
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