EFF Sues US Agencies Over Social Networking Disclosures
eff.org — 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 governme... (Submitted by EMFK) More...
EFF: The Xbox Live Bans: A Cautionary Tale of the TOS
eff.org — The move effectively prevents the machines from playing games online, and according to reports so far, the ban allegedly only affects consoles that have been modified by users in order to play pirated games. (Submitted by gorgeoussand) More...
EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
eff.org — Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of every visitor to a political website? No, but that didn't stop it from trying. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston tells the story of a bogus federal subpoena... (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
EFF: Is Net Neutrality a FCC Trojan Horse?
eff.org — On Thursday, the FCC Chairman is expected to unveil draft rules aimed at imposing network neutrality obligations on ISPs. In the excitement surrounding the announcement, many have overlooked the fact that the this rulemaking is built on a shoddy and dangerous foundation – the idea that the FCC has unlimited authority to regulate the Internet. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
EFF WIN: FBI Releases Domestic Surveillance Guidelines
eff.org — EFF requested public disclosure of the guidelines under the Freedom of Information Act in December and, after more than six months passed with no response, we filed suit against the Department of Justice in June 2009. The FBI released a heavily censored version of its controversial Domestic Investigations and Operations Guidelines (DIOG). (Submitted by gorgeoussand) More...
EFF: Reform USA PATRIOT Act & Repeal Telco Immunity
eff.org — Rein in Government Spying: As Congress begins to consider renewing sections of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire at the end of the year, we have a unique opportunity to press Congress for new civil liberties protections to shield ordinary Americans against government spying. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
EFF: Hey, TI, Leave Those Kids Alone!
eff.org — Graphing calculators have long inspired geeks. But, sadly, rather than celebrating the hobbyists that love their programmable calculators, Texas Instruments has set the lawyers loose on them, invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Researchers used distributed computing to perform a brute-force cryptanalysis of the public keys... (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More...
: Broken Promises of Privacy: Failure of Anonymization
eff.org — Gender, ZIP code, and birth date feel anonymous, but they aren't. Each of these facts about an individual (or other kinds of facts we might not usually think of as identifying) independently narrows down the population, so much so that the combination of (gender, ZIP code, birthdate) was unique for about 87% of the U.S. population. (Submitted by gorgeoussand) More...
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