This is great news, and it is a direct result of this week's mass protests. Together, we reminded the U.S. Congress who it works for. EFF alone helped users send more than 1,000,000 emails to Congress, and countless more came from other organizations.
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ACTA Signed by 8 of 11 Countries - Now What?
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On Saturday October 1st, eight countries (the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea) signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Tokyo, Japan.
Read more »Dangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance and Secrecy Worldwide
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The noxious 'Cybercrime Treaty' is springing up like Patterson's Curse at locations dotted all along the Information Superhighway and threatens to turn it into an Information SuperSpyway.
Read more »You Make a Difference
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With the help of our donors and creative community efforts, we were able to raise over $85,000 for protection of online rights! This amount is comprised almost entirely of modest contributions, so thanks to everyone who renewed their EFF membership or threw a few bucks in the bucket.
Read more »Encrypt the Web with HTTPS Everywhere
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in collaboration with the Tor Project, has launched an official 1.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere, a tool for the Firefox web browser that helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 websites.
Read more »EFF Warns Congress: Data Retention Would Endanger Privacy, Gain Little
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It is particularly troublesome because the laws designed to protect the private data of consumers from government access are insufficient and out-of-date — creating a perfect storm for government abuse.
Read more »EFF Campaign Increases the Number of Tor Relays by 13.4%
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We launched our campaign on May 31, 2011 –and within days surpassed our goal of 100 new relays.
Read more »The Humble Indie Bundle #2 Has Arrived
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The games in this second Humble Indie Bundle include Braid, Cortex Command, Mechanarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. The game titles aren't too amazing, but they're all natively available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
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Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
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We live in a society that values freedom of expression and shuns censorship. Unfortunately, those values are only as strong as the will to support them — a will that seems to be dwindling now in an alarming way.
Read more »EFF Sues The Gov't, Demands Proof of Need For Communication Backdoors
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So the EFF made a simple request: prove it... However, the US government apparently ignored the request, leading the EFF to sue the government over its failure to respond to the request.
Read more »EFF Tool Offers New Protection Against 'Firesheep'
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a security tool that offers enhanced protection for Firefox browser users against "Firesheep" and other exploits of webpage security flaws.
Read more »Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill
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It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.
Read more »Professor Ed Felten Becomes the FTC's First Chief Technologist
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With Felten on board, the FTC is uniquely positioned to deal with the myriad issues from the Roundtables in ways that protect consumer privacy without hampering innovation.
Read more »EFF Urges EU Data Protection Authorities to Call for the Repeal of the EU Data Retention Directive
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While the directive itself is limited to the storage of traffic data, Privacy Authorities found that data relating to the contents of communications is also being stored.
Read more »EFF Pioneer Awards
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EFF to Honor Stephen Aftergood, James Boyle, Pamela Jones and Groklaw, and Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru at San Francisco Ceremony
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