The EFF is going after Section 1201 of the DMCA which currently criminalizes any attempts to speak about legally acquired copyrighted material. If repealed, it would boost Right to Repair movement.
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GitHub has reinstated the youtube-dl repository after it received evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation showing that the project doesn't violate the DMCA as it was accused of doing.
The EFF has said that the recent Twitter breach further highlights the need for direct messages to be end-to-end encrypted. The firm, two years ago, told Senator Wyden it would add the feature.
ICANN has rejected the sale of PIR which runs .ORG to Ethos Capital. It comes after months of campaigning by non-profits who said the sale could lead to their financial exploitation.
The EFF and several other entities have penned a letter to ISOC to cancel to the sale of PIR, which controls .ORG domains, to Ethos Capital. They believe it would negatively affect NGOs.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new version of its Privacy Badger extension. The new update now stops Google from tracking links within Hangouts, Docs, and web searches.
In a bid to distribute ruleset updates in a more timely manner for HTTPS Everywhere, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has now separated them out from updates to the browser extension itself.
At the age of 70, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation John Perry Barlow has passed away in his sleep. Barlow always advocated for an open internet and was a supporter of net neutrality.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has decided it will leave the World Wide Web Consortium saying that the decision making process has been corrupted by corporate elements set on implementing DRM.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new update for its DNT enforcer, Privacy Badger. The release brings us a lot closer to seeing the add-on come to Firefox for Android, officially.
The World Wide Web Consortium has approved Encrypted Media Extensions, a new internet DRM standard which has many people concerned, though all major browsers have been supporting it for years.
Privacy, liberty, and accountability are not partisan issues, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as it set out its agenda to defend digital rights for the first 100 days of Trump's reign.
The European Court of Justice has set a precedent by ordering a public Wi-Fi provider to restrict access by requiring guest users to register with a password to prevent copyright infringement.
Microsoft sued the US Department of Justice back in April over gagging orders. Now several big players including Apple, Mozilla and the EFF have come out in support of the software company.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation called out Microsoft today for disregarding user choice and privacy in Windows 10. The organization calls out Microsoft's aggressive upgrade tactics, and telemetry.
Chelsea Manning has been allowed to receive Internet articles which the US Army had previously banned her from receiving. The EFF is still concerned about restrictions on internet content inmates get.
The EFF has done some research and determined that T-Mobile is throttling video traffic with their "Binge On" service in direct opposition to the United States' Net Neutrality rules passed in 2015.
Even though his ISP has closed its doors, Nicholas Merrill never stopped fighting his NSL gag order, and has defeated the FBI in federal court after 11 long years
If you thought the NSA was the only government agency spying on U.S. citizens, this news will be disheartening to you: The Department of Justice kept all of your phone records until the end of 2013.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Amnesty International are just two of the big backers behind Detekt, an open-source software program that detects spyware commonly used by governments.
In an effort to encourage companies to become more transparent and secure, the EFF has begun a "Secure Messaging Scoreboard" listing dozens of apps and their security features, or lack thereof.
Multiple tech giants, including Apple, Verizon and Cisco, have joined Microsoft in opposing the US government's requests for search warrants for data stored on overseas servers.
In the fourth 'Who Has Your Back' report into the privacy standards of companies online, Snapchat, AT&T & Amazon have been named as failing to provide adequate privacy protection for their customers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation created an extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger that looks for advertisers who ignore "Do Not Track" requests and throws them into a black hole.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come out against Microsoft's statements concerning the recent search through a person's Hotmail account, stating the company should have gotten a warrant first.
The internet has banded together to fight against mass surveillance. February 11th will be an international day of protest with banners and widgets strewn across popular websites such as Reddit.
A US District Judge has ordered the FBI to come clean on their efforts to access encrypted information and force manufacturers to build backdoors into their products, following a lawsuit from the EFF.
Kim Dotcom might be gearing up to launch his new venture, but the EFF's fight for Megaupload users' data is far from over, and now the government is saying that they don't really own their cloud data.
The “encryption-enabler” browser add-on made by the EFF collective gets a new update, adding up many web sites to its protection list and promising a safer World Wide Web for everyone.
For users who lost access to files at the time of Megaupload's shutdown, there may yet be some hope that they can retrieve their data from the petabytes of data still available to the server's hosts.
Although eBooks are convenient, they add another trail of electronic crumbs that give more data to publishers and retailers. Should there be restrictions on this data or is the convenience worth it?
The new release of the EFF-crafted Firefox security extension brings a very much welcomed additional feature, ie warning users when a website is affected by security holes.
Microsoft's recent lawsuit against a third party maker of Xbox 360 memory cards is being disputed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Gamasutra reports that in a brief written last week, the EFF stated that Microsoft's...
It’s a common trend, but everything is spying on you nowadays. We’re not talking about men in black suits and sunglasses following you around the city, but instead we’re referring to the pervasive passive monitoring...
In the case of Warshak v United States an appeals court has ruled that government entities must first obtain a search warrant before they are allowed to seize and search your email. This gives email...
Calculator hobbyists who blogged about the modification of the software included on Texas Instruments (TI) programmable calculators have been sent letters from TI demanding they remove the material. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who campaign...
