Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

EFF has been fighting for years for the principle that if you bought it, you own it. The first sale doctrine – the law that allows you to resell books and that protects libraries from claims of copyright infringement – is crucial to consumers. Unfortunately, first sale has been under threat in the digital realm.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman is circulating a proposal for new FCC rules on the issue of network neutrality. The proposal embraces a standard that could allow ISPs to charge companies for preferential treatment, such as charging web-based companies like Netflix or Amazon to reach consumers at faster speeds.

Published on April 25, 2014. President Obama is on a diplomatic tour of Asia this week and one of his top priorities is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement that includes restrictive copyright enforcement measures that pose a huge threat to users’ rights and a free and open Internet. In particular, he’s seeking to […]

Narenji (“Orange”) was Iran’s top website for gadget news, but now it’s gone. Narenji’s front page is stuck in time as it was on 3 December, when the entire team was rounded up by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and thrown into jail.

In countries where homosexuality remains taboo or punishable by law, it makes sense for LGBTQ people to explore their sexual identity online. But the Internet is increasingly becoming a risky place for exploration.

EFF has long advocated for websites to support HTTPS instead of plain HTTP to encrypt and authenticate data transmitted on the Internet. However, a recently discovered catastrophic bug, nicknamed “Heartbleed,” has critically threatened the security of some HTTPS sites since 2011.

Last February, the Colombian media revealed that the country’s intelligence service carried out widespread surveillance of key NGOs, journalists, and leftist politicians, including their own governmental team responsible for negotiating a peace agreement with the Colombian guerilla.

The FISA Transparency and Modernization Act, meant to end the collection of all Americans’ calling records using Section 215 of the Patriot Act would actually create an entirely new government “authority” to collect other electronic data.