EFF Urges EU Data Protection Authorities to Call for the Repeal of the EU...
While the directive itself is limited to the storage of traffic data, Privacy Authorities found that data relating to the contents of communications is also being stored.
View ArticleProfessor Ed Felten Becomes the FTC's First Chief Technologist
With Felten on board, the FTC is uniquely positioned to deal with the myriad issues from the Roundtables in ways that protect consumer privacy without hampering innovation.
View ArticleOregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill
It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.
View ArticleEFF Tool Offers New Protection Against 'Firesheep'
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a security tool that offers enhanced protection for Firefox browser users against "Firesheep" and other exploits...
View ArticleEFF Sues The Gov't, Demands Proof of Need For Communication Backdoors
So the EFF made a simple request: prove it... However, the US government apparently ignored the request, leading the EFF to sue the government over its failure to respond to the request.
View ArticleJoin EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
We live in a society that values freedom of expression and shuns censorship. Unfortunately, those values are only as strong as the will to support them — a will that seems to be dwindling now in an...
View ArticleThe Humble Indie Bundle #2 Has Arrived
The games in this second Humble Indie Bundle include Braid, Cortex Command, Mechanarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. The game titles aren't too amazing, but they're all natively available for...
View ArticleEFF Campaign Increases the Number of Tor Relays by 13.4%
We launched our campaign on May 31, 2011 –and within days surpassed our goal of 100 new relays.
View ArticleEFF Warns Congress: Data Retention Would Endanger Privacy, Gain Little
It is particularly troublesome because the laws designed to protect the private data of consumers from government access are insufficient and out-of-date — creating a perfect storm for government abuse.
View ArticleEncrypt the Web with HTTPS Everywhere
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in collaboration with the Tor Project, has launched an official 1.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere, a tool for the Firefox web browser that helps secure web...
View ArticleYou Make a Difference
With the help of our donors and creative community efforts, we were able to raise over $85,000 for protection of online rights! This amount is comprised almost entirely of modest contributions, so...
View ArticleDangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance and Secrecy Worldwide
The noxious 'Cybercrime Treaty' is springing up like Patterson's Curse at locations dotted all along the Information Superhighway and threatens to turn it into an Information SuperSpyway.
View ArticleACTA Signed by 8 of 11 Countries - Now What?
On Saturday October 1st, eight countries (the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea) signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Tokyo,...
View ArticleThe Internet Spoke and, Finally, Congress Listened!
This is great news, and it is a direct result of this week's mass protests. Together, we reminded the U.S. Congress who it works for. EFF alone helped users send more than 1,000,000 emails to Congress,...
View ArticleMatching grants for EFF donations until Tuesday
Every dollar you give will provide two dollars to help EFF! Thanks to bonus challenge grants, donations up to $158,000 will get a 2x matching grant until Tuesday.
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