Do you use Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile? If so, your real-time cell phone location data may have been shared with law enforcement without your knowledge or consent. How could this happen? Well, a company that provides phone services to jails and prisons has been collecting location information on...
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right. The bipartisan Secure Data Act would stop any government agency or court order from forcing a company to build backdoors into encrypted devices and communications. This welcome piece of legislation reflects much of what the community of encryption researchers, scientists, developers,...
Washington, D.C.-On Monday, May 14, at 9:30 am, EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry will argue in court that the public has a right to access, copy, and share the law—and industry groups that helped develop certain legal rules can't inhibit that right by claiming ownership in those rules.
You wonderful EFF supporters keep on coming up with great new entries to our Catalog of Missing Devices, which lists fictional devices that should exist, but don't, because to achieve their legal, legitimate goals, the manufacturer would have to break some Digital Rights Management and risk retaliation under Section...
VISION AND TECHNOLOGY: toward a more just future addresses the implications of visuality, representation, and privacy in the age of surveillance and big data.
Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Massachusetts won a court ruling today allowing their groundbreaking lawsuit challenging unconstitutional searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border to proceed—a victory for the digital rights of all international travelers.EFF and ACLU ...
In a victory for privacy rights at the border, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today ruled that forensic searches of electronic devices carried out by border agents without any suspicion that the traveler has committed a crime violate the U.S. Constitution.The ruling in U.S. v....
Join EFF at the 13th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area! The event spans three days, from Friday afternoon to Sunday. Part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new, Maker Faire is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students,...
A local digital rights community group in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event:Community Activism: Vote and Engage LocallyThe push for a new political landscape starts now!Do you know there are elections for San Mateo County in June?Do you know the new mail-in only...
A local digital rights community group in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event:The Tyranny of ContractThis month's speaker will be Christopher Brown. His novel Rule of Capture, the beginning of a series of speculative legal thrillers about a criminal defense lawyer in an...
A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event:Cypurr CryptopartyBuried by all the recent privacy policy updates? Overwhelmed by indiscriminate surveillance, digital harassment, or security leaks of personal identification? You are not alone!At this month’s workshop, Cypurr will talk about how laws...
