HP Promises to Restore Printers’ Functionality, But Questions Remain Over 10,000 of you have joined EFF in calling on HP to make amends for its self-destructing printers in the past few days. Looks like we got the company’s attention: today,… Read More ›
Archive for September 2016
Victory! Gov. Brown Signs Bill to Overhaul California’s Broken Gang Databases
Over the last few weeks, a broad coalition of civil liberties and social justice organizations rained down letters, tweets, and op-eds on Gov. Jerry Brown, urging him to sign A.B. 2298, a bill to begin the process of overhauling the… Read More ›
Why the Warrant to Hack in the Playpen Case Was an Unconstitutional General Warrant
Should the government be able to get a warrant to search a potentially unlimited number of computers belonging to unknown people located anywhere in the world? That’s the question posed by the Playpen case, involving the FBI’s use of malware… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVO: No horário em que Domingos Montagner se afogou, vazão na hidrelétrica estava aumentando
(este texto contém atualizações) Documentos obtidos com exclusividade por The Intercept Brasil mostram que o fluxo de água liberado pela hidrelétrica de Xingó (SE) aumentou na faixa de horário em que aconteceu o afogamento do ator global Domingos Montagner, no… Read More ›
White House Is Profoundly Wrong About the Most Embarrassing Thing Senate Has Done
The White House reacted harshly to the Senate’s overwhelming vote on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would enable the family members of 9/11 victims to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in U.S. Courts. Press… Read More ›
Justice Department Is Fighting Fired FBI Agent’s Use of Whistleblower Defense
John Parkinson, an Iraq War veteran who led a special operations unit in FBI’s Sacramento field office, first filed whistleblower complaints almost a decade ago when he became concerned with his coworkers’ behavior. He identified a colleague as having “a… Read More ›
Police Around the Country Regularly Abuse Law Enforcement Databases
For more than a year, EFF has been investigating how police in California misuse the state’s law enforcement database with little oversight from officials. An investigation published by the Associated Press today shows that abuse of law enforcement systems is… Read More ›
The Half Billion Dollar Glitch
On August 1, 2012, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened the day at 13,007.47. Business headlines that morning included conservative opponents of gay marriage celebrating “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” the continued reluctance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to offer debt… Read More ›
Brazil’s Impeached Ex-President Dilma Rousseff Says Successor “Confessed to the Coup”
In the first exclusive interview following her impeachment, former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said that her unelected successor, installed President Michel Temer, has “confessed to the coup” against her. Rousseff was referring to controversial public remarks delivered by Temer last week in which he explicitly stated… Read More ›
What Drives Trump Supporters?: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on Anger & Mourning of the Right
In the wake of Monday night’s first presidential debate, the establishment Republican Party and conservative newspapers continue to distance themselves from Donald Trump amid increasing accusations of racism, sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia. Today, former Virginia Republican Senator John Warner is… Read More ›