EFF-Austin is promoting new legislation to require police to obtain a warrant for cellphone tracking. Police can leverage the technology that allows cellphone signals to reach your phone, and that you can use to find your phone when it’s lost, to track your movements. This requires the cooperation of cellphone companies, which are getting a [...]
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Updates from National EFF- Vermont Is Mad as Hell at Patent Trolls and Is Not Going to Take It Anymore May 22, 2013There is exciting news out of the Green Mountain State this week: folks in Vermont are so fed up with patent troll abuse that they are taking matters into their own hands. With trolls filing thousands of lawsuits every year and blanketing the country in threat letters, states are looking for ways to protect victims—especially small entities that lack the res […]
- Twitter Launches Innovator’s Patent Agreement May 22, 2013With patent trolls and patent wars creating a massive drag on innovation, a number of companies have investigated ways to navigate the patent system while still promoting openness and competition. Twitter has been especially active in this space—both by fighting back against patent trolls and in giving its own developers a voice through its Innovator’s Paten […]
- EFF Takes FOIA Fight Over Secret Wiretaps to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court May 21, 2013Today, EFF filed a motion in a secret court. This secret court isn’t in a developing nation, struggling beneath a dictatorship. It’s not in a country experimenting for the first time with a judiciary and the rule of law. And, as Wired recently noted, it’s “not in Iran or Venezuela, as one might expect.” No, the court is here, in the United States (it’s in Wa […]
- 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations May 21, 2013The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call records of twenty AP phone lines, “the Justice Department has struck a terrible blow against the freedom of the press and the ability o […]
- Report From Outside the TPP Negotiating Venue in Lima, Peru May 20, 2013EFF has been on the ground in Lima, Peru for the 17th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The TPP is a secretive, multinational trade agreement, and one chapter carries overreaching copyright enforcement provisions that pose a huge threat to the Internet and users' access to devices and digital content. This is a video from a protest […]
- Vermont Is Mad as Hell at Patent Trolls and Is Not Going to Take It Anymore May 22, 2013
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- Pew Survey Finds Teens Using Privacy Controls on Social Media May 21, 2013A survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society found that while teens are disclosing more personal information on social media, the vast majority are actively taking steps to protect their privacy. 60 percent of teen Facebook users keep their profiles private and visible only to a select group of friend […]
- EPIC Testifies Before Colorado Board on Student Privacy May 21, 2013EPIC Administrative Law Counsel Khaliah Barnes testified before the Colorado State Board of Education on privacy issues concerning inBloom and other companies that acquire student information. In response to public outcry over a pilot program which grants these companies access to sensitive student data, the Colorado Board of Education hosted a public sessio […]
- EPIC Asks FTC to Investigate Snapchat May 17, 2013EPIC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Snapchat, the publisher of a mobile app that encourages user to share intimate photos and videos. The company represents that users can make photos and videos "disappear forever." In fact, the photos can be retrieved by others after they should have vanished. The EPIC complaint implic […]
- Congress Seeks Answers on Google Glass Privacy Risks May 17, 2013Members of the bipartisan Privacy Caucus sent a letter to Google seeking answers to questions about Glass, a wearable computer that routinely records video and audio, and gathers locational data. Among several questions, the Members of Congress asked "how Google plans to prevent Google Glass from unintentionally collecting data about the user/non-user w […]
- White House Supports Media Shield Law May 16, 2013Following the controversy concerning the Justice Department’s subpoena of Associated Press calling records, the Obama administration announced support for a media shield law. The White House has asked Senator Charles E. Schumer to reintroduce the Free Flow of Information Act, a bill that would limit government access to information about confidential sources […]
- Pew Survey Finds Teens Using Privacy Controls on Social Media May 21, 2013
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