Blog Posts Tagged with "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
The Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law Continues: EFF Asks D.C. Circuit to Order Release of Secret Legal Opinion
March 19, 2013 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a brief filed on Friday, EFF continued its fight against secret surveillance law, asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to order the release of a secret opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
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How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook's Graph Search
January 20, 2013 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since Facebook removed the ability to remove yourself from search results altogether, we've put together a quick how-to guide to help you take control over what is featured on your Facebook profile and on Graph Search results...
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A Deep Dive into Facebook and Datalogix
November 06, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Facebook is partnering up with marketing company Datalogix to assess whether users go to stores in the physical world and buy the products they saw in Facebook advertisements. A lot of the reports aren’t getting into the nitty gritty of what data is actually shared between Facebook and Datalogix...
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HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 Protects 1,500 More Sites
October 31, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
We released version 3.0 of HTTPS Everywhere, which adds encryption protection to 1,500 more websites, twice as many as previous stable releases. Our current estimate is that HTTPS Everywhere 3 should encrypt at least a hundred billion page views in the next year, and trillions of individual HTTP requests...
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Cleansing the Internet of Terrorism
October 28, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet companies under the CleanIT regime would not only be allowed, but in fact obligated to store communications containing “terrorist content,” even when it has been removed from their platform, in order to supply the information to law enforcement agencies...
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EFF Opposes Government's State Secrets Claim in Wiretapping Case
October 14, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF filed its latest brief in the Jewel v. NSA case, aiming to stop the government from engaging in mass warrantless collection of emails, phone calls, and customer records of ordinary Americans. The matter is set for hearing on December 14, 2012 in federal court in San Francisco...
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New Book Details the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
October 07, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Three more NSA whistleblowers, including William Binney a former high ranking official involved with the program during its infancy, also submitted affidavits laying out how the NSA illegally spied on Americans in the aftermath of 9/11...
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Service Agreements Kill Privacy, But Can They Create It Too?
October 03, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Fourth Amendment has not kept up with technology. And a recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals highlights the increasing way rights are adjudicated when it comes to data stored by other companies: through the service agreement a user enters into with a company...
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Stop the Next SOPA and CISPA: Register to Vote for Internet Freedom
September 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress needs to know that the Internet is watching and that users won’t sit on the sidelines as technology intended to connect us and bring knowledge to people worldwide is turned against us for the purposes of censorship and surveillance...
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Do Not Track Update: The Fight for User Privacy Continues
September 25, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and other digital rights advocates are continuing to fight for Do Not Track, a one-click browser-based signal users can turn on to tell websites not to track their online browsing habits. In this article, we’ll be reviewing recent Congressional hearings about online tracking...
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House Passes the Broad Warrantless Spying Bill
September 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The House voted to renew the dangerous FISA Amendment Act which hands the NSA broad, warrantless surveillance powers for another five years. Sadly, the House refused to add any oversight powers or privacy protections, despite evidence the NSA has used it to spy on Americans...
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Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet
September 20, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since its origins in 2008, Freedom Not Fear has developed the general message: fundamental rights like privacy, free expression, due process, and democratic participation are jeopardized when reactionary, fear-driven surveillance systems penetrate our societies...
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Don’t Wait for UK Snoopers’ Charter: Encrypt Wikipedia Now
September 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rather than waiting for bad legislation, Wikipedians should take this opportunity to make one relatively small technical change that could serve as a bulwark against all kinds of government surveillance, filtering and data retention laws...
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TPP and its Impact on Digital Freedom
September 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Disciplines related to IPR could impact how people gain access to the Internet and could constrain what people may say online or how they can collaborate and share content. It is imperative that the IPR chapter of the proposed TPP agreement not inappropriately constrain online activity..."
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Congress Demands Answers for DHS Domain Name Seizures
September 10, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
After a year control over dajaz1.com was handed back to the owners with no apology and no explanation. It is disturbing enough that DHS has been acting as the tax-funded hired gun of the content industry, but, even more horrifying it censored the wrong targets for no good reason...
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Research Sheds Light on New Surveillance Apps for Smartphones
September 04, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FinSpy Mobile analysis will allow vulnerable and at-risk users to better understand the threat of government surveillance and make better judgements to protect their security and privacy. This software is sophisticated and powerful...
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