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Press Release | November 18, 2011

Righthaven Case Ends in Victory for Fair Use

San Francisco - In a victory for fair use, the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Stephens Media, filed papers yesterday conceding that posting a short excerpt of a news article in an online forum is not copyright infringement. The concession will result in entry of a judgment of non-infringement...

Press Release | November 10, 2011

Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle

San Francisco - A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to Wikileaks. The judge also blocked the users' attempt to discover whether other Internet companies have been ordered...

Press Release | October 26, 2011

EFF Sues for Answers About PATRIOT Act on Law's 10th Anniversary

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) today for answers about "secret interpretations" of the USA PATRIOT Act, signed into law ten years ago today.
Several senators have warned that the DOJ is using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to support...

Press Release | October 14, 2011

Senators Call for Privacy Law Update

Washington, D.C. - On Oct. 18 at 11 a.m., Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) will jointly call for updating U.S. privacy law to keep pace with 21st Century technology.
The press conference comes the same week as the 25th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act...

Press Release | October 3, 2011

GPS Inventor Joins EFF in Fight Against Warrantless GPS Tracking

Washington, D.C. - The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other leading technologists have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in urging the U.S Supreme Court to block the government from using GPS tracking without first getting a warrant, arguing that the massive collection of sensitive location...

Press Release | October 3, 2011

California's Reader Privacy Act Signed into Law

Sacramento, CA - California Governor Jerry Brown has signed the Reader Privacy Act, updating reader privacy law to cover new technologies like electronic books and online book services as well as local bookstores.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) were sponsors of the...

Press Release | September 27, 2011

Who's on the Intelligence Oversight Board? Government Won't Say

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) demanding records of who is on the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) -- the presidentially appointed, civilian panel in charge of reviewing all misconduct reports for American intelligence agencies.
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Press Release | September 23, 2011

Government Violates Free Speech Rights with Domain Name Seizure

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court in an amicus brief today to order the return of two domain names seized by the U.S. government in violation of the First Amendment.
The domain names -- Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org, owned by Spanish company Puerto...

Press Release | August 31, 2011

EFF to Court: Don't Let Government Hide Illegal Surveillance

Seattle - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today to preserve lawsuits challenging the government's illegal mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. In oral arguments today, EFF asked the court to block the government's attempt to bury the suits with claims of...

Press Release | August 4, 2011

Encrypt the Web with HTTPS Everywhere

San Francisco - 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 browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 websites.
HTTPS Everywhere was first released as...

Press Release | July 29, 2011

Vague Anti-Stalking Law Threatens Protected Speech Online

San Francisco - EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging a federal court to block the government's use of the federal anti-stalking law to prosecute a man for posting criticism of a public figure to Twitter.
At issue is a federal law originally enacted to criminalize traveling across state...

Press Release | July 27, 2011

Forced DNA Collection Without Search Warrant Violates Privacy Rights

San Francisco - The forced collection of DNA samples from arrestees without search warrants violates their Fourth Amendment right to privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal appeals court in an amicus brief filed Monday.
A federal law mandates DNA collection as a condition for bail for...

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