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Reddit makes gross mistakes trying to write bill to replace abusive SOPA, PIPA

Posted February 1, 2012 - 10:14 am

Unlike most successful factions in American politics, on the heels of success in opposing the Internet-censoring SOPA and PIPA bills, members of Reddit are developing a solution they can propose to address the content piracy problem without SOPA's no-rights-for-pirates approach to enforcement.
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Do you own your devices or not? The jailbreaking argument

Posted January 26, 2012 - 10:56 am

Those who believe people should be able to do anything with their own devices are getting organized.
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Privacy rights 1, Cops 0

Posted January 23, 2012 - 2:46 pm

Pop the champagne: The US Supreme Court has ruled that the police can't track your location without a warrant. But the bigger issues surrounding location privacy remain.
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Biggest sites extend SOPA protest to try to stop Senate's Internet-censoring PIPA

Posted January 18, 2012 - 7:00 am

Some of the web's largest sites plan dramatic displays to mark their opposition not to the just-shelved House SOPA bill, but to the still-viable, still dangerous Senate effort at Internet censorship, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)
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The biggest privacy scandal of 2011

Posted December 21, 2011 - 12:00 pm

Privacy was all over the news this year, and there are plenty of scandals to choose from. What was the most outrageous? Read on to find out.
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Best idea of 2011: Give control of Internet content to group that sued a dead grandmother

Posted December 20, 2011 - 5:12 pm

The RIAA, the source of much of the intent of SOPA, is a source of reason and justice online the way hyenas are on the African plain. Its intent is selfish, its methods are ugly, its goals are indefensible, and its results are undetectable. Who better to write censorship laws for the web?
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Net watchdogs, Apache side with Microsoft in patent dispute

Posted February 2, 2011 - 3:54 pm

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and the Apache Software Foundation -- siding with Microsoft in a long-running legal battle -- have joined forces in urging the United States Supreme Court to make it easier for juries to invalidate software patents.
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Sony sends 'dangerous' message with PS3 suit, says EFF

Posted January 24, 2011 - 11:54 am

A recent lawsuit filed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. against several security researchers for allegedly jailbreaking the company's PS3 hardware is evoking howls of protest from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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FCC creates a monster, gives it control of the Internet

Posted December 21, 2010 - 3:01 pm

FCC "network management" guideline lets carriers throttle or block traffic, raise fees for service that already can't live up to its billing.
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How Microsoft May Help Open Source in Court

Posted December 1, 2010 - 10:05 am

It's a rare day when proponents of free and open source software are rooting for Microsoft in court, yet that's exactly what's going on with regard to the software giant's battle against Canadian i4i, which specializes in collaborative content technologies.
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Review: 'HTTPS Everywhere' fends off Firesheep

Posted November 29, 2010 - 9:42 am

The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, and then log in as you and do anything they want, as if they were you. The free Firefox add-in HTTPS Everywhere helps protect against that threat and other privacy invaders by effectively encrypting information when you visit certain Web sites.
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EFF dubs Apple a 'jealous feudal lord' over iPhone dev contract

Posted March 10, 2010 - 10:07 am

Apple's agreement with iPhone developers contains several "troubling" clauses that paint the company as a "jealous and arbitrary feudal lord," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday.
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EFF publishes iPhone developer agreement

Posted March 9, 2010 - 4:45 pm

If you've followed the news of App Store rejections over the past couple years, you may have wondered what exactly is engraved upon the stone tablets that govern the terms of Apple's App Store and developing for the iPhone. The trouble is we haven't been able to tell you, as the agreement itself contains terms that prohibit publicly discussing it. But on Monday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) legally obtained and published a copy of the agreement for the first time.
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YouTube changes cookie use policy on Whitehouse.gov

Posted June 14, 2009 - 7:16 pm

In an apparent acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by privacy advocates, YouTube has changed its use of tracking cookies for videos embedded on the Whitehouse.gov Web site.
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Fight to legalize iPhone jailbreaking set for Friday

Posted May 1, 2009 - 3:06 pm

Apple's iPhone marketing chief will square off against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others Friday as the U.S. Copyright Office considers whether to allow an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that would permit jailbreaking.
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College student fights warrant seizing his computer

Posted April 16, 2009 - 1:13 pm

Boston College is finding itself in the middle of a controversy over its handling of a case involving a student who allegedly sent an e-mail claiming that a fellow student was gay and used a college computer network to change grades.
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New EFF search tool opens up FOIA documents

Posted March 18, 2009 - 8:45 am

Want to know what the feds have been up to? Anyone with Internet access can now search through thousands of once-classified documents that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) "has pried loose from secretive government agencies" through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Keeping the government's prying eyes at bay

Posted March 9, 2009 - 1:21 pm

The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week took the wraps off a new Web site that is designed to help you keep the government from taking the wraps off your personal communications and stored data.
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EFF berates Apple over open-source iTunes project

Posted November 25, 2008 - 9:31 pm

The EFF says Apple is wrong to shut down a site that posted information on how to make the iPod work with Linux.
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EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney

Posted September 18, 2008 - 6:55 pm

The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the NSA, U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials, alleging that an NSA electronic surveillance program continues to illegally spy on U.S. residents.
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EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact

Posted September 18, 2008 - 4:18 pm

Digital rights advocacy groups EFF and Public Knowledge have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret international treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws.
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