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EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
News We're pleased that Sony BMG responded quickly and responsibly when we drew their attention to this security problem," EFF staff attorney Kurt Opsahl said in a statement. Following those revelations, the EFF asked computer security company iSec...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called for assistance in its attempt to have 10 technology-related patents overturned. The EFF is also unhappy that the companies who own them have, it claims, all threatened or brought lawsuits against...
[July 1, 2004, 16:15]
EFF publishes guide to safe blogging
News In order to help would-be bloggers stay on the right side of the law - and their bosses - the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has now launched a guide for blogging in the workplace. The EFF advisory also recommends using anonymising technology...
[April 11, 2005, 17:50]
EFF defends Novell partnership
News On Wednesday, Novell and the EFF issued a joint press release claiming that the two organisations would co-operate on EFF's "patent busting" programme. The controversy surrounding Novell's pact with Microsoft has prompted questions on why an...
[May 24, 2007, 17:57]
EFF appeals Apple trade secret decision
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Tuesday that it has appealed a court ruling that could force Apple fan sites to give up their confidential sources to the company. The EFF, which is representing two of the Web sites, said that ruling...
[March 23, 2005, 11:55]
EFF files free speech lawsuit against record labels
News In the suit filed Wednesday in federal court in New Jersey, the EFF argued that the researchers from Princeton and Rice universities have a First Amendment right to publish their paper. EFF attorney Cindy Cohn said that even if the entertainment...
[June 7, 2001, 8:32]
US VoIP wiretapping legality hazy, says EFF
Blog US wiretapping law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), does not make clear how legal it is for US law enforcement to intercept VoIP information packets from overseas VoIP providers, EFF told ZDNet UK on Friday.
[August 5, 2009, 13:13]
EFF: Don't protect US telcos from spying lawsuits
News Before the law was passed, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) brought a lawsuit against AT&T, currently before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The flawed [statute] improperly attempts to take away Americans' claims...
[December 2, 2008, 11:17]
Novell joins EFF for patent reform
News Novell is providing funding for the EFF's "patent-busting" effort, Nat Friedman, Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for open-source, said in an interview in San Francisco at the Open Source Business Conference.
[May 24, 2007, 10:29]
EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
Talkback Revoke all these patents and things will be more sane. Some of the patents are completly adsurd. It is painfully obvious that the patent office has no clue that these methods were in use years before the patent.
[July 2, 2004, 5:33]
EFF sets its sights on 'frivolous' IT patents
Talkback Patents are supposed to cover novel technical inventions that would be non-obvious to someone knowledgable in that area of technology. Most patents granted today are only granted because the patent office doesn't have the skill or the time to...
[July 13, 2004, 8:14]
EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
Talkback This article on P2PNET about SunnComm shows that they also need to lift their business ethics as well as their technical expertise.http://p2pnet.net/story/7201
[December 7, 2005, 13:02]
Webcasting 'excluded from WIPO broadcasting treaty'
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Friday welcomed the news that webcasting will no longer be included in the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) broadcasting treaty. The EFF describes this treaty as a "a protection racket...
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
Test your ISP's net neutrality!
Blog The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a tool, dubbed 'Switzerland' (net neutrality - geddit? The sad truth is that the FCC is ill-equipped to detect ISPs interfering with your Internet connection," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF Senior...
[August 5, 2008, 17:31]
Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?
News Cyber-rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claimed on Wednesday to have identified 19 Sony CDs that contain a rootkit-like application that disguises its copy-restriction technology. According to the EFF, the following CDs contain...
[November 10, 2005, 17:00]
EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection
News The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management (DRM) software, EMI said on Friday. The EFF, a digital rights group, sent an open letter to EMI earlier...
[January 20, 2006, 12:45]
Privacy concerns over Google Desktop 3
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday that a feature added to the latest version of Google Desktop has serious privacy implications. But the EFF claimed this feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy" due to US...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a legal complaint against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to force it to comply with an earlier request for information on how European passenger data is secured, shared, used and...
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
Guide tells 'grey hats' how to avoid legal pitfalls
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 'Grey Hat' Guide ponders such questions as what a security researcher should do if they unintentionally "violate the law" in the course of their investigations.
[November 25, 2008, 14:13]
Internet watchdog challenges 'bogus' VoIP patent
News On Wednesday, the EFF, a civil liberties organisation that works to protect rights in the digital world, filed a re-examination request to the US Patent and Trademark Office, stating it had discovered a prior patent, as well as published reference...
[October 15, 2009, 10:33]
