News

• The government wants to know what it doesn't know

  By Mark Gibbs | 23 April, 2012 14:36

  "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

• H.R. 1981, the jaws of law will eat your Internet rights

  By Mark Gibbs | 13 February, 2012 16:22

  You remember in "Jaws" where a girl is swimming in the ocean and the music starts playing ("dun-dun, dun-dun, dun-dun ...")? You know what's going to happen ... at the last moment she sees the shark's dorsal fin slicing through the water and, "eeeekkkkkkkkk!" ... too late! CHOMP!

• EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints

  By Robert McMillan | 19 May, 2010 04:15

  Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• Patent office to review VoIP patent

  By Stephen Lawson | 08 February, 2010 08:42

  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.

• EFF: Browsers can leave a unique trail on the Web

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 February, 2010 08:46

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy concerns when used to profile users.

• Lawsuit seeks information on federal surveillance of social networking sites

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 03 December, 2009 12:43

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of California, Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have filed a lawsuit (PDF document) against six government agencies, seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance.

• Judge throws out Craigslist lawsuit

  By Nancy Gohring | 26 October, 2009 08:39

  An Illinois judge this week dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Cook County Sheriff's Office charging Craigslist with facilitating prostitution.

• Group of authors opposes Google book settlement

  By Grant Gross | 09 September, 2009 05:27

  More than two dozen authors and publishers have filed an objection to a proposed settlement that would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books, saying that the agreement ignores important privacy rights of readers and writers.

• EFF: Apple's claim that jailbroken iPhones can crash cell towers a 'hill of beans'

  By Gregg Keizer | 30 July, 2009 08:41

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took exception today to Apple's claims that "jailbroken" iPhones could cripple a mobile carrier network, calling the argument nothing but "a hill of beans."

• EFF urges members to pressure Google on books privacy

  By Grant Gross | 24 July, 2009 06:22

  Digital liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging its supporters to pressure Google to build significant privacy protections into its Book Search service, with the EFF suggesting the service gives Google access to new personal information.

• When your phone rings, the copyright police may come calling

  By Jeremy Kirk | 03 July, 2009 06:02

  A digital rights group is contesting a U.S. music industry association's assertion that royalties are due each time a mobile phone ringtone is played in public.

• Apple is sued after pressuring open-source iTunes project

  By Robert McMillan | 28 April, 2009 05:09

  The operator of a technology discussion forum has sued Apple, claiming that the company used U.S. copyright law to curb legitimate discussion of its iTunes software.

• EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney

  By Grant Gross | 19 September, 2008 10:23

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA), US President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials, alleging that an NSA electronic surveillance program continues to illegally spy on US residents.