Monday | 24 November, 2008

Stories about: Electronic Frontier Foundation

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    EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney 19/09/2008 10:23:00

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA), US President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials, alleging that an NSA electronic surveillance program continues to illegally spy on US residents.
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    EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact 19/09/2008 08:11:00

    Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US 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.
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    EFF to appeal court order halting subway hacker talk 11/08/2008 09:21:50

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.
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    Now at Black Hat: a lawyer to vet your hacking 08/08/2008 08:53:02

    There's a new service for conference speakers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this year: lawyers on call.
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    US border agency says it can seize laptops 04/08/2008 08:39:27

    Travelers beware: U.S. agents now have the authority to seize and retain laptops indefinitely, according to a new policy detailed in documents issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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    Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now 28/07/2008 08:54:25

    Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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    US court dismisses case challenging warrantless e-mail searches 17/07/2008 08:52:50

    The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week dismissed on procedural grounds a case involving the constitutionality of warrantless no-notice searches of e-mail messages stored by an ISP.
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    Viacom allows YouTube to conceal user names in court case 16/07/2008 10:21:03

    Google may conceal YouTube users' identities when it hands a database of their viewing habits to Viacom International in response to a court order, the companies agreed Monday.
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    ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03/07/2008 08:37:23

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
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    Ask.com places privacy policy link in home page 19/06/2008 09:00:23

    Ask.com has decided to put a link to its privacy policy on its home page, something that search-engine rival Google has declined to do and that has earned it criticism from privacy advocates.
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    Google warned about missing link to privacy policy 13/06/2008 08:29:40

    A California lawmaker has joined the chorus of voices urging Google to include a link to its privacy policy on the home page of its Web site, as required by state law.
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