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"We caught the Ethiopian government red-handed." Al Jazeera covers our work on a government spyware case.

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Lawsuit alleges that Addis Ababa used private technology to monitor Internet communications of dissident-linked American
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EFF is representing Laura Poitras in her FOIA suit for records about "years of Kafkaesque harassment at the borders."

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Washington, D.C. ­– Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. transportation security agencies today demanding they release records documenting a six-year period in which she was searched, questioned, and often subjecte…
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The govt needs to fix their own cybersecurity before proposing bad "solutions" like CISA.

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It's a scary time to work in government IT.
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Ethiopia claims the right to wiretap Americans at home. EFF goes to court tomorrow to fight back.

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Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, July 14, at 2 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal court to allow an American to proceed with his lawsuit against the Ethiopian government for infecting his computer with secret spyware, wiretapping his private calls, and monitoring his fami…
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Wall Street Journal talks to Moxie Marlinspike, a cryptographer working on secure communications tech.

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In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials for writing encryption software. He has spooked the FBI.
wsj.com|By Danny Yadron

Twenty-five years ago, three tech pioneers founded a scrappy little organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Thank you to the supporters, donors, and volunteers who helped us reach this milestone, and here's to many more years of fighting for digital rights.

10 July 90 --- Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corp., announced at a news conference this morning that his newly formed Electronic Frontier Foundation is giving $275,000 to Computer Profes- sionals for Social Responsibility to expand their program on computers and civil liberties.
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Members power all of EFF's work, so we're celebrating our 25th anniversary with a membership drive. There's less than a week to hit our target of 2,500 new and renewing members and we've got a little under 1,500 to go. Will you join us?

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is turning 25! Help us add 2,500 new and renewing members before our celebration on July 16 to honor 25 years of important member-supported digital rights work and lay the foundation for the future.
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From South Korea to Estonia, intermediaries are being squeezed by laws that make them liable for their users' communications. With support from our partners around the world, EFF has released the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability in eight new languages, to support battling these threats worldwide.

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If you operate your own website, be glad that you don't host it in Korea (or if you do, you might want to rethink that). Whereas in the United States, an important law called CDA 230 protects you from liability for comments contributed by users to your website, Korea has some of the toughest liabili…
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With the passage of the European Parliament's resolution on copyright reform today, Europeans had a close escape from several awful proposals including a continent-wide link tax for news aggregators, and limits on taking photographs of public buildings.

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Today the European Parliament adopted an important resolution on Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights [PDF].
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The Manhattan DA has encountered encryption in <0.1% of cases. That's just not enough to excuse dangerous backdoors.

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Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn't want another crypto war.
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At our 25th Anniversary Minicon, you'll have a chance to get practical privacy & security tips from EFF staff. Join us!

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As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, EFF is hosting a minicon that will include a security training, a capture-the-flag event, and a series of panels discussing the future of EFF issues in security, copyright and user control and online activism and speech. Tickets for the minicon, which run…
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The NSA is piggybacking on advertising cookies to follow you around the Web.

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Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says:
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FBI Director Comey insists law enforcement access to encrypted data that doesn't weaken security is possible. He's wrong.

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Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn't want another crypto war.
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The NSA is piggybacking on advertising cookies to follow you around the Web.

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Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says:
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Space is limited in our first-ever CTF competition next week. Sign up today!

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As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, EFF is hosting a minicon that will include a security training, a capture-the-flag event, and a series of panels discussing the future of EFF issues in security, copyright and user control and online activism and speech. Tickets for the minicon, which run…
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EFF will hold its first CTF on July 16th. *throws gauntlet*

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As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, EFF is hosting a minicon that will include a security training, a capture-the-flag event, and a series of panels discussing the future of EFF issues in security, copyright and user control and online activism and speech. Tickets for the minicon, which run…
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Some large tech companies support secret trade deals like the TPP and TTIP, likely because they’ve joined negotiations and are betting that the benefits they can get from the agreements will be worth the costs of worse copyright provisions.

Policymakers now believe that these companies’ support means these deals will promote "Internet freedom.” Our lawmakers need to get one thing straight: Big tech companies do not speak for the Internet.

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Too often, media and policymakers take seriously the claim of government officials that secret trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promote and protect “Internet freedom,” even though the traditional guardians of Internet freedom—users and innovators who rely on it—have said precisel…
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"You can save the future!" - Cory Doctorow on why you should apply to work at EFF.

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You can save the future! EFF pays a competitive wage and offers moving assistance and help with home-buying for its new hires, too. EFF works on privacy, fair use, free speech, innovation, transpar...
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"You can save the future!" - Cory Doctorow on why you should apply to work at EFF.

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You can save the future! EFF pays a competitive wage and offers moving assistance and help with home-buying for its new hires, too. EFF works on privacy, fair use, free speech, innovation, transpar...
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We're hiring an activist. Here's why you should apply.

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Most mornings, I wake up, turn on my computer, and check to see if there are any new threats to digital rights. Perhaps a new surveillance program has been revealed, or a bill to censor the Internet has been introduced, or there’s a privacy policy change to a major social network that will affect mi…
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New report from prominent security experts explains exactly why security backdoors are bad for everyone.

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A new report says giving the governments “exceptional access” to encrypted communications would jeopardize confidential data and critical infrastructure.
nytimes.com|By NICOLE PERLROTH

In the Bay Area? Come to EFF headquarters tomorrow for a book talk with Kentaro Toyama, author of "Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology."

A meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last week edged closer towards adopting a treaty that would give additional copyright-like rights to broadcasters, but thanks to Europe, turned a cold shoulder to new copyright exceptions for libraries and educators.

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Last week negotiators from around the world came together as the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) standing committee on copyright (SCCR) resumed consideration of its two current work items: the on-again, off-again broadcasters' rights treaty, and the harmonization of minimu
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EFF's Lenz v. Universal team went to court today to fight DMCA takedown abuse. More info about the hearing: https://www.eff.org/…/tuesday-court-hearing-over-absurd-cop…

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After the Hacking Team leaks, EFF joins Latin American civil society groups in calling for greater oversight of surveillance technologies

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The digital security community has been reacting this week to leaked documents from italian surveillance company Hacking Team. The documents, which include lists of contracts and sales pitches to some of the worst authoritarian regimes and countries with weak democracies, show a global industry of s…
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Tomorrow FBI director James Comey will be testifying before the U.S. Senate on why he wants to put backdoors in your encryption. We've decided to preemptively debunk the myths and misstatements he's likely to push.

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The FBI wants to ensure everyday people can't use strong encryption. For over nine months FBI Director James Comey has been pushing the FBI's twenty-year-old talking points about why he wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it.
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EFF, Ashley Judd, and the Tor Project have all called on ICANN to preserve domain privacy. You can too—today is the last day to submit comments.

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EFF has joined 45 organizations and 105 individuals to oppose a new domain registration proposal in front of the Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Numbers (ICANN).
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