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27 Jul 2010, 6:32 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
The New York Times reported on July 26: The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law [the DMCA], said on Monday [July 26] that it was legal to bypass a phone’s controls on what software it will run to get “lawfully obtained” programs to work.The EFF had requested an exception to the DMCA to allow the so-called jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices.The NYT also reported: In addition to this decision, the Library of… [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 6:35 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF – Maira Sutton: “A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
“Small claims court for copyright” idea, now moving rapidly through Congress, could create a new business model for troll claimants [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; EFF on CASE Act] “If Boston is weirdly NOT full of good restaurant/bar/cafes for its size, and if people don’t want to stay after they hit 26 or so, these throttled [liquor] licenses are one of the real structural reasons why. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 3:55 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “California police and sheriffs are failing to protect the privacy of drivers on city streets, the California State Auditor’s office determined after a seven-month investigation into the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by the Los Angeles Police Department and three other local law enforcement agencies. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 7:14 am
EFF’s Fred von Lohmann has a very nice analysis of the copyright law quagmire caused by President Obama’s gift of an iPod with 40 show tunes to the Queen of England. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 4:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF, along with more than sixty civil liberties organizations, public interest groups, and companies sent two letters to the House and Senate leadership today. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 3:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF - “Fair use enjoyed a major victory in court today. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 7:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF- Cory Doctorow: “Privacy First” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first? [read post]
19 Aug 2018, 1:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “With Gmail’s new design rolled out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its new “Confidential Mode. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 7:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a new “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule that will force your bank to make it easy for you to extract your financial data so that you can use it to comparison shop for a better offer, and switch to another bank with just a few clicks. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 3:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “If you watched even a bit of Mark Zuckerberg’s ten hours of congressional testimony over the past two days, then you probably heard him proudly explain how users have “complete control” via “inline” privacy controls over everything they share on the platform. [read post]
29 Dec 2024, 7:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “If you’ve purchased a car made in the last decade or so, it’s likely jam-packed with enough technology to make your brand new phone jealous. [read post]
5 Jul 2022, 6:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “…The last two decades have seen the internet move from living-room and office terminals to our phones, watches, appliances and lighting fixtures. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 6:55 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Follow up to Supreme Court expands surveillance powers of intelligence agency via EFF – With Rule 41, Little-Known Committee Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government – The government hacking into phones and seizing computers remotely? [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 3:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EFF: “Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University (NYU) researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation, from its platform. [read post]