Stories about: Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks? 16 March, 2010 10:04

I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that's pretty wild. It accuses the U.S. government ofdeliberately trying to take down the whistle-blower site PDF two years ago.
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Privacy is not dead, Just evolving 16 March, 2010 01:29

It's a brave new world. Unfortunately--continuing the literary allusion--Big Brother is watching. As technology makes more information more accessible, it also threatens to expose information that is not intended to be shared. Privacy is a concept that is caught in the middle of the struggle.
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Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era 02 March, 2010 03:24

In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple's walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community proves time and again to be an innovative environment for off-limits apps that demonstrate new ways to push the iPhone platform forward.
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Does Facebook's newsfeed patent threaten social media? 27 February, 2010 05:29

Facebook has been awarded a patent for "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network."
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Facebook hit with class action over privacy changes 17 February, 2010 12:09

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook over changes that the social networking site made to its privacy settings last November and December.
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After outcry, Google revamps Buzz networking application 16 February, 2010 06:53

Google apologized on Saturday, saying it has made several changes to its new social-networking application Buzz to allay privacy concerns.
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Patent office to review VoIP patent 08 February, 2010 08:42

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.
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EFF: Browsers can leave a unique trail on the Web 01 February, 2010 08:46

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy concerns when used to profile users.
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US DOJ: Operators helped FBI illegally obtain phone records 21 January, 2010 09:07

The FBI was so cavalier -- and telecom companies so eager to help -- that a verbal request or even one written on a Post-it note was enough for operators to hand over customer phone records, according to a damning report released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
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Groups seek to challenge US gov't on seized laptops 14 January, 2010 12:03

The policy of random laptop searches and seizures by U.S. government agents at border crossings is under attack again, with a pair of civil rights groups seeking potential plaintiffs for a lawsuit that challenges the practice.
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China won't yield to Google on censorship, analysts say 13 January, 2010 20:31

Google risks having its online services blocked in China as it defies local authorities by ending censorship of results on its Chinese search engine, analysts said.