By Shana Dines, EFF Legal Intern, Summer 2009
In December 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), requesting documents that would reveal undisclosed details about the Automated Targeting System (ATS). ATS is the...
Update, April 2019: For EFF's most up-to-date security advice, please visit Surveillance Self-Defense, a guide to protecting yourself from electronic surveillance for people all over the world.Published July 2009; revised June 2010.6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes and 4 Ways the...
May 2009
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of parody. Fast forward two...
October 2008
WIPO To Consider Copyright Exceptions and LimitationsAn earlier version of this paper was originally published in Third World Network’s South-North Development Monitor, Issue No.6433 on 12 March 2008, and Third World Economics, Issue No. 422, 1-15 April 2008. This version was previously published as Third World Network...
This document collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists,...
June 2008This whitepaper serves as an updated replacement of the original OSP BP.IntroductionAlso available as a PDFOnline service providers (OSPs) are vital links between their users and the Internet, offering bandwidth, email, web...
The legal battles surrounding peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face sliding sales, while the tens of millions of American file sharers—American music fans—are made to feel...
November 2007
By Peter Eckersley, Fred von Lohmann and Seth Schoen{pde,fred,schoen}@eff.org
Comcast is the second largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States. They run the cable TV and cable Internet networks in many parts of the United States, and many consumers know them as their duopoly or...
Certain Internet service providers have begun to interfere with their users' communications by injecting forged or spoofed packets - data that appears to come from the other end but was actually generated by an Internet service provider (ISP) in the middle. This spoofing is one means (although not...
By Peter Eckersley, Seth Schoen, Kevin Bankston, and Derek Slater.
Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to...
(And Other Ideas To Avoid Being Treated Like a Criminal) As of July 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued over 20,000 music fans for file sharingin just under three years. In 2004, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) joined this misguided,...
