"Electronic Frontier Foundation" news, interviews, and features

News about Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Why the world's top computing experts are worrying about your data

  'We are living in a black box society,' one scientist said

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, August 5

  China moving cops on-site at Internet companies... Do-Not-Track gets some bite...Lollipop lag shows Android is really fragmented

• EFF-led group wants to give do-not-track some bite

  The initiative is the first credible attempt to define what "do not track" actually means, according to backer

• Groups urge Obama to oppose cyberthreat sharing bills

  They say the Senate's CISA cyberthreat information sharing bill would allow businesses to share too much information

• Google slams proposed US export controls on security tools

  A U.S. agency has proposed that companies exporting hacking tools from the U.S. get licenses

• Free SSL/TLS certificate project moves closer to launch

  Let's Encrypt will start issuing a few certificates next month while it ensures the system is reliable

Features about Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 25 years of defending online privacy

  Its first major case was one in which the US Secret Service, hunting a stolen documented, raided a company's computers

• Can digital rights management and the open Web coexist?

  The fight over openness vs. protection of copyright holders has been a contentious issue for as long as digital media has been around

• The year in tech quotes

  As the year draws to a close, we offer a dozen of the quotes that stuck with us in 2013

• Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

  Curiously, ethical lapses and email often go hand in hand

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  The Kinect gaming device has been hacked and is now being modified to work in ways it was never intended.