2015 Pioneer Award winners and presenters. Photo by Alex Schoenfeldt. EFF’s annual Pioneer Awards ceremony gives the digital civil liberties community a chance to honor the work of those who fight for online freedom through remarkable innovation, activism, journalism, or… Read More ›
Archive for September 2015
Coal Mining CEO Defends Financing Harassment of Climate Scientists
In August, The Intercept revealed that Alpha Natural Resources, one of the largest coal mining companies in America, has been secretly financing think tanks and political organizations that deny climate change. One of the people they funded, attorney Chris Horner, is well known… Read More ›
Facebook’s Free Basics: More Open, Better Security, but Still a Walled Garden
Last Thursday, Facebook announced changes and clarifications to its zero-rating program formerly known as Internet.org. It’s re-branded the service “Free Basics,” but the overall idea remains the same: mobile users in developing nations can access certain websites without having to… Read More ›
Tell President Obama: Save Crypto From Dangerous Backdoors
It’s a critical moment in the global debate over privacy, security, and “backdoors” in encryption technology. Despite all that attention, President Obama has yet to come to a public position on backdoors—i.e., the government mandating, coercing, or pressuring companies to… Read More ›
Report: Matching Funds Would Give Huge Boost to Sanders, Cruz and Carson
A system of public matching funds for small donors would have transformed the financial terrain of the current presidential race, concludes a new report by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups. With such a system, the Bernie Sanders campaign… Read More ›
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
“We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of… Read More ›
Online Ad Company Adopts New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing
Adzerk Joins Coalition Delivering Stronger Privacy and a Way Forward in the Ad Blocking Impasse San Francisco – Online advertising company Adzerk will offer compliance with EFF’s new “Do Not Track” (DNT) standard for Web browsing starting this week, significantly… Read More ›
Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
Apple’s recently-announced support for adblockers on iOS 9 provoked dramatic debate between those who were celebrating the news, and those who were angry over what they see as the company undermining the primary business model for online publishing and journalism…. Read More ›
Bernie Sanders Tells the Truth: Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on His Surging Campaign
Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, discusses the economic plans of Democratic front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, as well as his new book, “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.” The book looks at… Read More ›
Robert Reich: Donald Trump & Jeb Bush Plans Would Slash Taxes for the 1 Percent
On the campaign trail, Republican candidates are proposing massive new tax cuts for the rich despite growing economic inequality across the country. On Monday, Donald Trump unveiled a plan to lower the income tax rate to the lowest level since… Read More ›