The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently approved H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act. The legislation attempts to codify Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Wheeler’s pledge not to use the Open Internet Order to regulate broadband rates. This seems like a straightforward task and...

Encryption Isn’t Something We Can Negotiate About, No Matter How Politically Convenient That May Seem
Dear President Obama,
During your keynote conversation at SXSW, you called for a concession on security in our digital devices, stating that you don’t believe in “an...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling last Fall in the long-running “dancing baby” case, affirming that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We welcomed that ruling, but the majority...

In a recent Deeplinks post and in some of our other communications about the Apple case, we've referred to what the government wants Apple to do as creating a "backdoor." Some people have questioned the use of the term, but we think it's appropriate. Here's why.
The...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider adopting a DRM non-aggression covenant at its Advisory Committee meeting in Boston next week. EFF has attended several of these meetings before as a W3C member, always with the intent to persuade the W3C that supporting DRM is a bad idea for...

Please join us in welcoming legislative counsel Ernesto Omar Falcon to EFF!
Ernesto will be working with us to analyze bills in Congress and make sure that digital rights have a voice on the floor in Congress, particularly in copyright, patent, and net neutrality issues....