Slashdot Items Tagged "eff"

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Friday March 15, 2024 @08:36PM EFF Opposes America's Proposed TikTok Ban
Saturday February 10, 2024 @03:32AM EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire'
Monday January 22, 2024 @07:17PM EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them
Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:30PM EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays'
Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:13PM EFF Proposes Addressing Online Harms with 'Privacy-First' Policies
Saturday November 11, 2023 @05:57PM EFF, Cory Doctorow, Others Speak in Commemoration of Aaron Swartz Day
Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:48PM 'Public Resource' Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use
Friday September 15, 2023 @10:25PM EFF Recognizes Signal, Library Freedom Project for Protecting Privacy
Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:18AM EFF Says California Cops Are Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Anti-Abortion States
Monday June 12, 2023 @06:25PM US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents
Wednesday May 31, 2023 @12:39AM Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:48PM EFF Warns US 'Deserves Stronger Spyware Protections Than Biden's Executive Order'
Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:21AM 'The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute For Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation'
Friday February 10, 2023 @06:43PM GitHub and EFF Back YouTube Ripper In Legal Battle With the RIAA
Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:11PM San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader
Saturday November 12, 2022 @09:35PM Aaron Swartz Day Commemorated With International Hackathon
Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:41PM Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let's Encrypt, Dies at 43
Friday August 05, 2022 @05:45PM Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections For Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post
Sunday July 10, 2022 @03:09PM 'Toward a Future We Want to Live In' - EFF Celebrates 32nd Birthday
Sunday July 10, 2022 @03:07PM 'Toward a Future We Want to Live In' - EFF Celebrates 32nd Birthday
Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:15PM Court Rules DMCA Does Not Override First Amendment's Anonymous Speech Protections
Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:22PM It's Back: Senators Want 'EARN IT' Bill To Scan All Online Messages
Monday January 10, 2022 @01:25AM Are Social Media Companies Censoring Us? Is It Ever Justified?
Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:43PM NBC: 'You Probably Don't Need to Rely on a VPN Anymore'
Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:52PM EFF Board of Directors Removes 76-Year-Old John Gilmore
Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:08PM With HTTPS Everywhere, EFF Begins Plans to Eventually Deprecate 'HTTPS Everywhere' Extension
Friday September 24, 2021 @09:32PM Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters
Friday August 06, 2021 @04:59PM Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple's Plans To Scan Messages and iCloud Images
Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:23PM EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program
Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:23PM 'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months
Saturday June 05, 2021 @11:45PM EFF Argues 'If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access'
Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:43PM PayPal Shuts Down Long-Time Tor Supporter With No Recourse
Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:00PM College Student Sues Proctorio After Source Code Copyright Claim
Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:00PM Proctorio Sued For Using DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets
Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:47PM EFF Partners With DuckDuckGo
Friday April 02, 2021 @09:26PM Privacy Advocate Confronts ACLU Over Its Use of Google and Facebook's Targeted Advertising
Monday March 29, 2021 @12:40AM Richard Stallman's Return Denounced by the EFF, Tor Project, Mozilla, and the Creator of Rust
Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:48PM Accused Murderer Wins Right To Check Source Code of DNA Testing Kit
Saturday January 16, 2021 @01:18PM EFF, Cory Doctorow Warn About the Dangers of De-Platforming and Censorship
Friday January 08, 2021 @10:31PM Are Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft 'Digital Warlords'?
Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:09AM EFF Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Account of the Fight to Save .ORG
Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:25PM Edward Snowden Urges Donations to the EFF
Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:18PM ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating
Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:35PM Facebook's Criticism of Apple's Tracking Change Called 'Laughable' by EFF
Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:38PM Aaron Swartz's Memory Honored with Virtual Hackathon
Saturday November 14, 2020 @08:02PM EFF Launches New Podcast: How to Fix the Internet
Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:21PM HP Replaces 'Free Ink for Life' Plan With '99 Cents a Month Or Your Printer Stops Working'
Friday November 06, 2020 @11:13PM EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:45PM Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:43PM What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:40PM Court Upholds Public Right of Access To Court Documents
Monday April 13, 2020 @12:39AM Twitter Accused of Obliterating Its Users' Privacy Choices
Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:54PM What Happens When Tech Companies Offer to Fight Coronavirus With Digital Surveillance?
Saturday March 07, 2020 @02:19AM EFF: .Org Sale 'Threatens Instability and Dysfunction'
Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:46PM Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department
Monday February 17, 2020 @04:39PM Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It?
Friday January 24, 2020 @08:56PM EFF Defends Bruce Perens Victory Against 'Open Source Security' in Appeals Court
Monday January 13, 2020 @06:08PM EFF Files Amicus Brief In Google v. Oracle, Arguing APIs Are Not Copyrightable
Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:25PM Internet Pioneers Fight For Control of .Org Registry By Forming a Nonprofit Alternative
Friday December 20, 2019 @06:10PM Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance
Friday November 22, 2019 @11:42PM EFF Challenges Ring's Spokesperson Shaq To A Discussion About Police Surveillance
Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:07PM EFF Wins Access To License Plate Reader Data To Study Law Enforcement Use
Saturday August 10, 2019 @01:50PM Judges Begin Ruling Against Some Porn Purveyors' Use of Copyright Lawsuits
Sunday August 04, 2019 @09:20PM Google's Plans for Chrome Extensions 'Won't Really Help Security', Argues EFF
Saturday August 03, 2019 @11:15AM EFF Warns Proposed Law Could Create 'Life-Altering' Copyright Lawsuits
Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:26AM Privacy-Focused Android Q Still Lets Advertisers Track You
Friday July 26, 2019 @11:22PM EFF Argues For 'Empowerment, Not Censorship' Online
Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:36PM Redditor Allowed To Stay Anonymous, Court Rules
Friday May 03, 2019 @09:52PM Censorship 'Can't Be The Only Answer' To Anti-Vax Misinformation, Argues EFF
Monday April 15, 2019 @12:14AM EFF: Facebook Should Notify Users Who Interact With Fake Police 'Sock Puppet' Accounts
Friday March 22, 2019 @04:22PM The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan
Friday January 18, 2019 @08:17PM Larry Lessig Will Headline Friday's 'Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain' Event
Friday January 11, 2019 @03:49PM Electric Scooter Rental Service Bird Sent a 'Notice of Claimed Infringement' To a News Site For Reporting On Lawful Re-use of Scooters
Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:15PM Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules?
Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:10PM EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location
Monday November 05, 2018 @06:10PM EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities
Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:14PM EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling
Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:33PM EFF To Japan: Reject Website Blocking
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @08:08PM Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE
Friday June 29, 2018 @04:51PM EFF Sues To Invalidate FOSTA, An Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
Monday June 25, 2018 @03:30PM EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure
Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:37PM Facebook Inches Toward More Transparency and Accountability
Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:31PM Thinking carefully about Google's military AI projects
Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:03PM EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems
Saturday March 31, 2018 @02:28PM The EFF Hosts a 'John Perry Barlow Symposium' Next Saturday
Saturday March 17, 2018 @02:51AM North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:54PM New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police
Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:08PM FBI Paid Geek Squad Repair Staff As Informants
Friday February 16, 2018 @12:52AM Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:10PM EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive 'Piracy' Filters
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:04PM EFF Founder John Perry Barlow Has Died At Age 70
Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:06AM EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware
Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:35PM Calls to Action on the Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Aaron Swartz
Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:03PM Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules
Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:39PM EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @06:26PM Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted
Friday December 15, 2017 @06:41PM An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities
Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:55PM EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime
Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:45AM "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works"
Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:43AM EFF Beats 'Stupid' Patent Troll In Court
Saturday September 30, 2017 @12:36AM Hollywood's International War on Kodi Plugins And Video-Streaming Boxes
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:17AM EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization
Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:43PM Americans Plan Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week
Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:47PM ISPs Claim a Privacy Law Would Weaken Online Security, Increase Pop-Ups
Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:37AM EFF Honors Chelsea Manning, an IFEX Leader, And TechDirt's Editor
Monday August 07, 2017 @05:12PM 'Podcasting Patent' Is Totally Dead, Appeals Court Rules
Monday July 31, 2017 @06:34PM HP Patents 'Reminder Messages'
Saturday July 22, 2017 @12:26AM Let's Encrypt Criticized Over Speedy HTTPS Certifications
Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:43PM EFF: Large ISPs Lying To Californians To Kill New Privacy Law
Friday July 14, 2017 @07:18PM American ISPS Are Now Fighting State Broadband Privacy Proposals
Friday July 07, 2017 @11:06PM The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains
Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:28PM Zillow Drops Complaint Against Blogger After Backlash Over Copyright Claim
Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:08PM EFF Launches New AI Progress Measurement Project
Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:09PM EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants
Sunday May 14, 2017 @04:21PM EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard'
Monday May 01, 2017 @03:09AM DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow
Friday April 21, 2017 @11:32PM EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students
Saturday April 15, 2017 @01:17AM Troll With 'Stupid Patent' Sues EFF. EFF Sues Them Back
Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:43PM London Police Ink Shadowy Deal With Industry On Website Takedowns
Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:35PM EFF Issues April Fool's Day Newsletter
Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:24PM Maryland Legislator Wants To Keep State University Patents Away From Trolls
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:21AM Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court
Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:10AM Hey CIA, You Held On To Security Flaw Information -- But Now It's Out. That's Not How It Should Work
Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:56PM Three Privacy Groups Challenge The FBI's Malware-Obtained Evidence
Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:45PM The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles
Monday January 23, 2017 @01:42AM Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws
Friday January 06, 2017 @09:55PM Interviews: Ask Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst A Question
Friday December 30, 2016 @09:29PM 2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic
Saturday December 24, 2016 @01:32PM US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration
Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:23AM EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock
Monday December 12, 2016 @05:50PM EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access
Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:41PM Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP?
Monday November 21, 2016 @01:56AM EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook
Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:04PM Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale
Friday November 04, 2016 @07:50PM Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco
Monday October 31, 2016 @01:24AM EFF Suggests Halloween Costume To Protest Facial Recognition Databases
Saturday October 22, 2016 @08:49PM Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones
Friday October 14, 2016 @07:54PM EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills
Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:14AM Senator Questions The Declassification Policies of America's National Intelligence Office
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:23PM EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence
Friday September 09, 2016 @09:21PM Senator Urges Colleagues to Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking
Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:14AM Google, Apple, Mozilla, and the EFF Support Microsoft's Fight Against Gag Orders
Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:31PM How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:02AM US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter
Friday August 19, 2016 @03:16PM EFF Accuses T-Mobile of Violating Net Neutrality With Throttled Video
Monday August 08, 2016 @10:19PM EFF Asks FTC To Demand 'Truth In Labeling' For DRM
Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:45PM 'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:57PM Malware Linked To Government of Kazakhstan Targets Journalists, Political Activists and Lawyers, Says Report
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @04:28PM Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law
Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:21PM EFF Is Suing the US Government To Invalidate the DMCA's DRM Provisions
Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:02PM EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:10PM Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules
Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:14PM As It Searches For Suspects, The FBI May Be Looking At You
Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:43AM Court Slams Record Companies in New Vimeo/DMCA Ruling
Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:19AM Thousands of Email Addresses Accidentally Disclosed By Let's Encrypt
Friday June 10, 2016 @10:19PM Google Announces Support of the Controversial TPP
Friday June 03, 2016 @05:45PM FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos
Friday May 27, 2016 @11:30PM EFF Warns of Harsher CFAA
Friday May 27, 2016 @02:32AM Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records
Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:30PM EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee
Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:19PM EFF Announces Certbot Client For Let's Encrypt
Saturday April 30, 2016 @05:59PM Humble Bundle Announces 'Hacker' Pay-What-You-Want Sale
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @11:05PM Court Troubled By Surveillance Excesses At FBI, NSA
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @06:35PM EFF Sues DOJ For Access To Secret Court Orders On Decryption
Friday March 04, 2016 @01:50PM EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @10:51AM EFF's Cindy Cohn On Why 'Code Is Speech' Is Key To Apple vs. FBI
Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:49PM How Shari Steele Plans To Take Tor Mainstream
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:05PM NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years
Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:38AM Malvertising Campaign Used a Free Certificate From Let's Encrypt
Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:48AM Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director
Friday December 04, 2015 @08:55AM Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks
Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:16PM Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta
Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:53PM Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy
Monday November 02, 2015 @01:47AM EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas"
Thursday October 08, 2015 @07:02PM SIgn Of the Times: Calif. Privacy Protections Signed Into Law
Monday September 28, 2015 @09:09AM EFF: DMCA Hinders Exposing More Software Cheats Like Volkswagen's
Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:44AM EFF and MuckRock Need Your Help Tracking Biometric Surveillance
Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:14AM Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games
Sunday May 10, 2015 @12:44PM Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims
Friday April 10, 2015 @10:50PM After EFF Effort, Infamous "Podcasting Patent" Invalidated
Friday April 10, 2015 @07:23AM ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules
Monday April 06, 2015 @12:50PM USPTO Demands EFF Censor Its Comments On Patentable Subject Matter
Thursday February 26, 2015 @11:25PM Patent Trolls On the Run But Not Vanquished Yet
Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:04PM EFF: Hundreds of S. Carolina Prisoners Sent To Solitary For Social Media Use
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:10AM DEA Hands MuckRock a $1.4 Million Estimate For Responsive Documents
Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:08PM Hundreds Apply For FAA Drone Licenses
Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:22AM Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:56PM EFF Hints At Lawsuit Against Verizon For Its Stealth Cookies
Wednesday September 03, 2014 @08:13AM Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims
Monday August 18, 2014 @10:07PM Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @06:29PM EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:41AM Australian Police Use Telcos For Cell "Tower Dump" of All Connected Users' Data
Tuesday June 10, 2014 @10:26AM NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law
Thursday June 05, 2014 @01:28PM A Year After Snowden's Disclosures, EFF, FSF Want You To Fight Surveillance
Sunday May 04, 2014 @07:22PM Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking
Monday April 07, 2014 @02:14AM Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection?
Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:22AM Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll
Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:24PM L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation
Wednesday March 05, 2014 @08:27PM US Drops Link Sharing Charges Against Barrett Brown
Monday February 10, 2014 @07:18PM 3 Reasons To Hate Mass Surveillance; 3 Ways To Fight It