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How to copy DVDs to your mac hard drive
Note: These instructions originally appeared on c/net on 12/2009. Most macs no longer have a disc drive, so that part of the instructions may not work all mac users today, e.g., you’ll have to get yourself an external disc player…. Read More ›
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Tell Congress: It’s Time to Move FASTR
Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available When you pay for federally funded research, you should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (S.779, H.R.1477), which was just… Read More ›
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EFF Urges Federal Appeals Court to Protect Speech, Guard Against Censorship By Upholding Net Neutrality Order
Net Neutrality Rules Under Attack by U.S. Telecommunications Providers Washington—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking a federal appeals court to approve Federal Communications Commission (FCC) net neutrality rules that prevent Internet service providers from interfering with and censoring content… Read More ›
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Symantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com
On Friday, Google reported on its online security blog the faulty issuance of a certificate for google.com and www.google.com by Symantec, a prominent Certificate Authority. This misissuance is significant not only because it represents a breach in the core Internet… Read More ›
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New Open Letter Calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand up for User Safeguards
Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),… Read More ›
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New Surveillance Self-Defense Playlist for Academic Researchers
Academic researchers by necessity spend a lot of their time thinking about how to minimize harm in the conduct of their research. Prompted by the dark history of abuses in human subjects research, research ethics have become a deeply ingrained… Read More ›
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The SEC’s Power Grab: Civil Agencies Try to Weaken ECPA Reform Legislation
As we anticipated in Monday’s post, Wednesday’s hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act focused on creating a loophole for civil law enforcement agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to access personal content stored by third-party service… Read More ›
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With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)—Part 2
As we noted in Part 1 of this story, in the last few years, the FBI has been dramatically expanding its biometrics programs, whether by adding face recognition to its vast Next Generation Identification (NGI) database or pushing out mobile… Read More ›
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With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)—Part 1
In the last few years, FBI has been dramatically expanding its biometrics programs, whether by adding face recognition to its vast Next Generation Identification (NGI) database or pushing out mobile biometrics capabilities for “time-critical situations” through its Repository for Individuals… Read More ›
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Update on First Unitarian Church v. NSA: EFF’s First Amendment Challenge to NSA Spying
EFF has long believed that the First Amendment is as important to thinking about the NSA’s Spying as the Fourth Amendment. When the government can track to whom you talk, when and for how long, like it did with the… Read More ›