Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF, Woodhull, TechFreedom File SCOTUS Amicus Supporting FSC in Texas AV Case
Leading digital rights organizations Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Woodhull Freedom Foundation and TechFreedom filed an amicus brief Monday supporting Free Speech Coalition (FSC) in the U.S. Supreme Court review of an appellate decision upholding Texas’ controversial age verification law.
EFF Podcast Explores How 'Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet'
Electronic Frontier Foundation today released a new episode of its podcast “How to Fix the Internet,” titled “Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet” and devoted to sex worker rights online.
Leading Digital Rights Group Urges Action Against EARN IT Act
Leading digital rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued a statement urging immediate action to defeat the revived EARN IT Act, which privacy and sex workers' rights advocates have unanimously identified as a serious censorship threat.
Future Internet Simulation Shows Dystopian Outcome for Porn
A new initiative by Archive.org — in partnership with many leading digital rights organizations — is sounding the alarm about creeping censorship by projecting a dystopian 2046 version of the internet, including severely restricted access to adult material.
Woodhull, EFF Issue Call to Action Against Apple iPhone Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is organizing an action to convince Apple to reconsider incorporating a new surveillance technology into all its products, supposedly in the name of “child safety,” which will scan users’ photos and messages.
Biden Revokes Trump's Executive Order Targeting Section 230
As part of an order revoking a number of former President Donald Trump’s executive orders, President Joe Biden rescinded last Friday his predecessor’s controversial May 2020 order calling for the revocation of Section 230, the so-called “First Amendment of the internet.”
EFF Warns Against Giving Credit Cards 'Censorship Power'
Prominent digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published an editorial yesterday warning about the censorship power of credit card companies, after Visa and Mastercard cut off Pornhub from their payment networks.
Top Digital Rights Organization Highlights Woodhull's Anti-FOSTA Litigation
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading digital rights advocacy nonprofit, released yesterday a comprehensive report praising the Woodhull Foundation’s ongoing lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA-SESTA legislation.
House Passes Legislation to Penalize Websites for Sex Trafficking
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1865, a piece of legislation known as FOSTA, which would make it easier to penalize operators of sites that facilitate online sex trafficking.
FCC to Vote on Repeal of Net Neutrality; EFF Issues Call to Action
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today issued a call for action, urging internet users to tell lawmakers that a draft order to make changes to net neutrality rules is a critical threat for those seeking a free and open web.
Podcast Patent Ruled Invalid by U.S. Appeals Court
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a legal process that invalidated a patent held by Personal Audio, which had threatened numerous podcast producers with infringement suits.
EFF Seeks to Protect Rights of BitTorrent Users
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief asking an Illinois judge to throw out subpoenas related to mass BitTorrent lawsuits, which join thousands of defendants together in an effort to secure a financial settlement.
7,097 Defendants Pared From 'Batman XXX' Suit
A judge has quashed suboenas for 7,097 defendants who are alleged to have poached Axel Braun Productions' "Batman XXX: A Porn Parody." Only one defendant remains in the suit.
EFF Says Content Storage Case Threatens 'Safe Harbor'
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and other public interest groups have asked a federal judge to protect "safe harbor" rules for content in the cloud.
EFF Wants to Eliminate E.U. Data Retention Law
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called on European authorities to scrap legislation that requires Internet service providers to retain customer data.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Demands Federal Probe of AOL
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has formally petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to investigate America Online for leaking about 19 million search terms used by 658,000 subscribers over a three-month period.