What is a warrant canary? A warrant canary is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service…
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Case Argues Cisco Built Surveillance Tools Specifically Designed to Help Chinese Authorities Target Falun Gong EFF filed a request to…
Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before…
The Heartbleed SSL vulnerability presents significant concerns for users and major challenges for site operators. This article presents a series…
Recent events have shown us more than ever that the technologies we use and create every day have astonishing implications…
New EFF Project Tackles Electronic Medical Records and Inherent Risks to Your PrivacySan Francisco – The digitization of medical records…
Since the SHIELD Act was introduced two years ago, momentum has been building for patent reform in Congress. And when…
EFF has long advocated for websites to support HTTPS instead of plain HTTP to encrypt and authenticate data transmitted on…
Today the European Court of Justice declared the EU’s Data Retention Directive invalid, declaring that the mass collection of Internet…
While NSA surveillance has been front and center in the news recently, fusion centers are a part of the surveillance…
Throughout April, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will receive 10% of ticket proceeds for HOPE X, the tenth biennial Hackers On…
You would think that by now the Internet would have grown up enough that things like online banking, email, or…
Today, April 4th is 404 Day. EFF, along with our friends at the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Center…
After a two-week ban on the website imposed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that…
We support the Mozilla community and the vital work they’ve done—and must keep doing—for the open Internet. EFF has been…
[Accessing] any part of a computer system without right. Cyber-squatting. Cybersex. Computer-related forgery. What do these things have in common?…
We were thrilled to hear today that Yahoo is carrying through a concerted effort to protect users across its sites…
Copyright Law Shouldn’t Control How and Where Viewers Watch TVSan Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed an…
Representatives Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced HR 4291, the FISA Transparency and…
In an emergency hearing on March 19th, the government tried to convince the Northern District Court of California that the…