Although we have been opposing Europe’s misguided link tax and upload filtering proposals ever since they first surfaced in 2016, the proposals haven’t been standing still during all that time. In the back and forth between a multiplicity of different Committees… Read More ›
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The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
This week, Senators Hatch, Graham, Coons, and Whitehouse introduced a bill that diminishes the data privacy of people around the world. The Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act expands American and foreign law enforcement’s ability to target and access… Read More ›
What It Means to Fight for Technology Users in 2017
EFF fights for technology users. We believe that empowering and protecting users should be baked into laws, policies, and court decisions, as well as into the technologies themselves. Since our founding in 1990, we have paired this goal with the… Read More ›
Public Money, Public Code: Show Your Support For Free Software in Europe
The global movement for open access to publicly-funded research stems from the sensible proposition that if the government has used taxpayers’ money to fund research, the publication of the results of that research should be freely-licensed. Exactly the same rationale… Read More ›
Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
At EFF, we’ve become all too accustomed to bad news on copyright coming out of Europe, so it’s refreshing to hear that Portugal has recently passed a law on copyright that helps to strike a fairer balance between users and copyright… Read More ›
An Over-The-Top Approach to Internet Regulation in Developing Countries
Increased smartphone usage and availability of wireless broadband has propelled the use of Internet based platforms and services that often compete with similar services based on older technologies. For example services like Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp that offer voice or… Read More ›
Australian Government Wants to Give Satire The Boot
The National Symbols Officer of Australia recently wrote to Juice Media, producers of Rap News and Honest Government Adverts, suggesting that its “use” of Australia’s coat of arms violated various Australian laws. This threat came despite the fact that Juice… Read More ›
Digital Rights Groups Demand Deletion of Unlawful Filtering Mandate From Proposed EU Copyright Law
Today EFF and 56 other civil society organizations have sent an open letter [PDF] to European lawmakers outlining our grave concerns with Article 13 of the proposed new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which would impose a new… Read More ›
The End Game for European Upload Filtering Approaches
Update: the October 5 vote in the LIBE committee has now been postponed to an indefinite future date. If you’ve been following the slow progress of the European Commission’s proposal to introduce new upload filtering mandates for Internet platforms, or… Read More ›
No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum
The ruthless efficiency with which the Spanish government censored the Internet ahead of the referendum on Catalonian independence foreshadowed the severity of its crackdown at polling places on October 1. We have previously written about one aspect of that censorship; the raid of the… Read More ›