EFF has worked hard to convince organizations like Facebook and Wikimedia to join the ranks of many other large and small websites including Twitter, Gmail, and EFF in supporting HTTPS by default, and we're happy to see steady progress from major service providers on this front.
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Since the revelations of confirmed National Security Agency spying in June, three different "investigations" have been announced. One by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), another by the Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, and the third by the Senate Intelligence Committee, formally called the...

You might remember that in 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA), which at the time, was heralded as it was heralded as "the first meaningful, comprehensive reforms to the nation’s patent system in nearly 60 years." You might also have noticed that we haven't talked much...

De un tiempo ahora se ha vuelto necesario actualizar la forma en que entendemos al derecho internacional de los derechos humanos para dar cuenta de las nuevas tecnologías y técnicas de la vigilancia. La urgencia de esta tarea se ve demostrada por las recientes revelaciones que confirman la vigilancia...

In response to EFF's Freedom of Information Act request, the government released today the 2011 FISA Court opinion (redacted) that found part of the National Security Agency's "upstream collection" to be illegal and unconstitutional. Upstream collection is when the NSA gets a copy of Internet traffic as it...