Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Victory in the U.S. for net neutrality
A reclassification of broadband Internet gives the FCC the authority to enact (and enforce) narrow, clear rules which will help keep the Internet the open platform it is today.
Big Brother is listening: On smart TVs, users’ rights and security
As the devices in our homes get “smarter,” are they also going to spy on us? That question has led to one sentence in Samsung’s SmartTV privacy policy getting a lot of attention lately.
Obama announces new privacy rules for NSA data collection
The world’s personal information will “only” be retained for five short years. And that’s if the U.S. government decides you’re not under suspicion.
7 things to love about reddit’s first transparency report
Lots of companies publish transparency reports, but not all of them do a good job. EFF took some time to look at exactly what reddit’s report included and was impressed by what it found.
Game plan for ending global mass surveillance
What about the 96% of the world’s population who are citizens of countries other than the U.S. – asks EFF – and who are not protected from warrantless surveillance.
U.S. journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in federal prison
Barrett Brown will serve time for posting a link to hacked credit card information when he was working as an independent journalist.
Security is not a crime – unless you’re an anarchist
Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stated that the use of their email service is a practice, he believes, associated with terrorism.
U.S. Senate working to fast track passage of TPP
Deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been negotiated in almost complete secrecy, enabling these agreements to include extreme copyright and other digital policy provisions.