The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an organisation of 34 developed-country governments that work together to promote…
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Every day cafes, airports, libraries, laundromats, schools and individuals operate “open” Wi-Fi routers, sharing their connection with neighbors and passers-by…
June 5, 2013 was when the world heard from Snowden. This year, it’s your turn to speak out. On June…
Finally, some good news from Congress this week. Patent and surveillance reform may be suffering setbacks, but open access may…
EFF and Public Knowledge have submitted comments to the Copyright Office, urging it to clarify the legality of using so-called…
EFF is proud to participate in the launch of a new guide to alternative patent licensing. The guide was prepared…
In 2012, when Twitter announced in a blog post that it was launching a system that would allow the company…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has put police on notice: an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) alert, without human…
Patent reform suffered a massive setback today when Senator Patrick Leahy, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, announced that he…
EFF and Other Civil Liberties Organizations Call on Congress to Support Uncompromising Reform Since the introduction of the USA FREEDOM…
Say it ain’t so, Google. Two weeks ago, the awesome activists at the Peng! Collective launched a funny and smart…
For the second year in a row, Investigative Reporters and Editors solicited nominations from the public for one of the…
If you’ve been imagining NSA surveillance as something distant, with analysts sitting in remote data centers quietly analyzing metadata—stop now.…
It’s always a pleasure when anything patent-related enters the mainstream. Recently, Stephen Colbert took on the absurd inventions that companies…
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is about to get an earful on net neutrality. He’s testifying at a hearing in front…
NSA reform is finally moving in Congress. Last year, Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner introduced the USA Freedom…
“The US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide” Glenn…
Students are starting to speak out about how mass surveillance affects life on campus. Two different open letters from students—at…
There’s good news: the nationwide outcry against the Federal Communications Commission’s troublesome proposal for new Open Internet rules is clearly…
For the past two years, EFF has been pushing Congress to pass legislation to rein in patent trolls. Starting with…