Activism
"We shouldn’t waste so much breath on the idea of keeping the network completely neutral. It isn’t neutral now. What we should really be doing is looking for ways we can increase competition among ISPs — ways we can prevent the Comcasts and the AT&Ts from
Events
View it here. "What can ordinary people do? Support and promote projects that are acting at scale. WikiLeaks is my realisation of this tension, but there are a flood of others starting. The clash between diversity and global uniformity which has been created by wiring the world to itself
Privacy
EFF's Jillian C. York gave this presentation (timed for "Reset the Net") at the Personal Democracy Forum. Encryption is for everyone! from Jillian York
Activism
We know that there are many challenges that the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other online activist/advocacy organizations are confronting today. We're no longer on the Electronic Frontier - the frontier is more than settled, and now we're getting into increasingly complex issues of infrastructure and connectivity,
Transparency
A "handy infographic illustrating EFF's current Freedom of Information Act caseload" via eff.org.
Privacy
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which is the state supreme court for criminal cases, issued its long-awaited ruling in Texas v. Granville today. The wait was well worth it. The CCA ruled that Texas police can no longer search someone's cell phone without a warrant after
Privacy
Last night, I represented EFF-Austin on a panel discussion hosted by America’s Future Foundation and Google. The topic for the evening was the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and a good time was had by all. Fonda San Miguel proved itself a wonderful location for technology and
Privacy
Our Restore the Fourth friends were promoting a screening of this documentary in Austin a few months ago. Here's the website for the film: https://tacma.net/ And here's the film: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tacma
Events
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. Research funding agencies, universities, and the general public are
Events
As anyone who has been keeping up with the news lately can tell you, there are a number of ways the American (and global) public is non-consensually forking over data to government surveillance agencies. While warrantless surveillance is an extremely important topic of discussion, we should also consider our
Events
Albert Einstein is credited with coming up with the observation that "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." He didn't really say that, but actually said something better in 1946 as part
Activism
Gregory Foster of EFF-Austin speaks at the Restore the Fourth event in Austin, Texas (July 4, 2013) on the secret USPS Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, the Edward Snowden NSA leaks, general warrants, and the Fourth Amendment. Restore the Fourth * National - website, @Restore_the4th, #RestoreThe4th, #RT4 * Austin - Facebook