It's been a little over a week since Facebook a massive revamp of its privacy settings. EFF immediately followed that release with a , concluding that the changes were "clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more

Today the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed

The Times' editorial board speaks out in support of EFF's lawsuit seeking government guidelines for the monitoring of social networking sites.A federal prosecutor had a reasonable expectation of privacy when he sent personal email to his lawyer over government computers,

This week the World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is meeting in Geneva to discuss a intended to increase access to books and other information in formats accessible to the world's blind, visually impaired and

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to quash a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of a Pennsylvania company called USA Technologies. A hearing in the case

As 2009 draws to a close, we're inching ever deeper into the corner that Congress painted us into by passing Real ID under the table in 2005. (Recall that is the failed, Bush-era attempt to turn state drivers licenses into

Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web." That's how WIRED's Threat Level blog when describing Yahoo's recent effort to censor its own law enforcement compliance guide

So, you can help EFF times two by taking these two easy steps right now: When President Obama took office, he promised to usher in a new era of government transparency, and instructed federal government agencies to comply with Freedom

Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be

For twenty years, supporters of the Electronic Frontier Foundation have helped an elite team of technologists and activists create an unparalleled force in the digital rights world. Randall Munroe, creator of the online comic , tells it best:To thank our

Five months after it first coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most

The Obama Administration today issued its long-awaited (OGD), a blueprint for transparency that the on January 21, his first full day in office. The OGD is "intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the

EFF filed an in the Ninth Circuit's en banc review of , a case brought by the ACLU challenging the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had the government's argument that the case

In the first of a series of on , EFF today released . The paper aims to answer a fundamental question: when do these ubiquitous TOS agreements actually become binding contracts? We discuss how courts have reacted to efforts by

This is the fifth in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement.As we've explained in earlier posts, when it comes to evaluating the proposed Google Books settlement, the principal potential benefit to the public (increased to

Much of the coverage of the UK's proposed Digital Economy bill has centered, and rightly so, on to civil liberties for Britons caused by its Internet termination provisions. Less documented is quite how damaging these regulations are for the bill's

A Pennsylvania publicly-traded company has become the latest corporate entity to use the legal system in an attempt to out an anonymous online critic, and EFF is defending the critic with the help of the First Amendment as well as

Senator Evan Bayh recently responded to a constituent's concerns about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Sadly, Senator Bayh's letter is troubling and frustrating. He echoes the USTR's misleading conflation of "counterfeiting" and "copyright infringement," doesn't address the draconian Internet provisions,

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to