Press Releases: May 2012

Press Release | May 23, 2012

From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond

San Francisco - Today the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) release "From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond." The paper outlines the current state of U.S. government collection of biometric information and the problems that could arise from these...

Press Release | May 10, 2012

EFF to Testify at Hearings on Expanding DMCA Exemptions for Jailbreaking and Video Remixing

Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles - Experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will testify at public hearings held by the U.S. Copyright Office this month, urging officials to renew and expand the critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that the Copyright Office granted in 2009 in...

Press Release | May 7, 2012

EFF Urges Appeals Court to Protect Forums Allowing Users to Speak Online

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to block an attempt by disgruntled businesses to make an end-run around the federal law that protects Yelp and other online forums from liability for their users' reviews. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the U.S....