Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Windows 10: Forget about choice and privacy
Microsoft’s strategy for user adoption of Windows 10 has trampled on essential aspects of modern computing.
New cybercrime law is fundamentally flawed
IFEX members protest the impact on free expression of the overly broad bill, adopted on 12 August.
Malware linked to government of Kazakhstan targets journalists, political activists, lawyers
“The use of malware to spy on and intimidate dissidents beyond their borders is an increasingly common tactic employed by oppressive governments,” said Eva Galperin, Global Policy Analyst at EFF and one of the report’s authors.
Lawsuit filed in U.S. challenges law restricting research and remixes
The intent behind Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to create legal backing for the software that adds restrictions to “content” like music, movies, and books. However, with the introduction of software to everyday items like tractors and lightbulbs, it now hampers security research on these items.
Leading press freedom group and IFEX member should be granted access to UN bodies
Civil society groups ask ECOSOC to reconsider granting valued press freedom group and IFEX member, The Committee to Protect Journalists, consultative status at the UN.
Open letter on the financial crisis facing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
On 23 May, the IACHR reported that severe financial problems have forced it to cancel its July and October sessions and all trips planned for this year and, if new funding cannot be secured by mid-June, will lead to the non-renewal of the contracts of 40 per cent of its staff
Three years later, Snowden leaks have changed how the world sees NSA surveillance
Three years ago today, the world got powerful confirmation that the NSA was spying on the digital lives of hundreds of millions of innocent people.
WhatsApp blockade in Brazil could be taste of more censorship to come
Just one day before a parliamentary commission is expected to recommend making such measures an explicit and permanent part of Brazilian law, Brazilians are getting a taste of what it feels like when ISPs can be ordered to block Internet sites and services.