http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/1754/all xx http://www.itworld.com/security/69245/youtube-changes-cookie-use-policy-whitehousegov 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/69245/youtube-changes-cookie-use-policy-whitehousegov#comments Government Security News EFF privacy YouTube Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:16:44 -0400 ITworld staff 69245 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/legal/67328/fight-legalize-iphone-jailbreaking-set-friday 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. http://www.itworld.com/legal/67328/fight-legalize-iphone-jailbreaking-set-friday#comments Legal Personal tech News Apple copyright DMCA EFF iPhone jailbreaking Fri, 01 May 2009 16:06:33 -0400 ITworld staff 67328 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/66524/college-student-fights-warrant-seizing-his-computer 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. http://www.itworld.com/security/66524/college-student-fights-warrant-seizing-his-computer#comments Security News Boston College EFF privacy Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:13:42 -0400 ITworld staff 66524 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/64528/new-eff-search-tool-opens-foia-documents 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). http://www.itworld.com/internet/64528/new-eff-search-tool-opens-foia-documents#comments Internet Legal Opinion EFF search Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:45:41 -0400 ITworld staff 64528 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/63905/keeping-governments-prying-eyes-bay 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. http://www.itworld.com/government/63905/keeping-governments-prying-eyes-bay#comments Government Security Opinion EFF privacy Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:21:16 -0400 ITworld staff 63905 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/58416/eff-berates-apple-over-open-source-itunes-project The EFF says Apple is wrong to shut down a site that posted information on how to make the iPod work with Linux. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/58416/eff-berates-apple-over-open-source-itunes-project#comments Legal Personal tech News Apple drm EFF iPhone iPod Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:31:53 -0500 ITworld staff 58416 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/55171/eff-files-surveillance-lawsuit-against-nsa-bush-cheney 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. http://www.itworld.com/government/55171/eff-files-surveillance-lawsuit-against-nsa-bush-cheney#comments Government Legal News EFF privacy surveillance Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:55:45 -0400 ITworld staff 55171 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/55166/eff-public-knowledge-sue-us-govt-over-secret-ip-pact 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. http://www.itworld.com/government/55166/eff-public-knowledge-sue-us-govt-over-secret-ip-pact#comments Government Legal News copyright EFF intellectual property privacy Public Knowledge USTR Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:18:17 -0400 ITworld staff 55166 at http://www.itworld.com