Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech!


A judge has ruled that #EFF need not obey an Australian injunction ordering it to take down a #blog post & never speak of the #patent owner’s intellectual property again

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/court-rules-effs-stupid-patent-month-post-protected-speech #infosec #IP

#EFF: #Verizon will install spyware on all its #Android phones (update)
https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/31/eff-verizon-will-install-spyware-on-all-its-android-phones/

W3C Standartizes DRM, EFF Resigns #W3C #EFF #DRM #Internet

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently voted in favor the DRM standard.  Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been fighting against it, now lost, and resigned from the W3C.  Read more: It is a tragedy that we will be doing that without our…

The EFF's Eva Galperin Keeps Activists Safe Online - Motherboard #eff

#USA #NSA #MassSurveillance #EFF: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn an unprecedented ruling allowing the government to intercept, collect, and store—without a warrant—millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including emails, texts, phone calls, and online chats.

This warrantless surveillance is conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The law is exceedingly broad—Section 702 allows the government to conduct surveillance of any foreigner abroad­—and the law fails to protect the constitutional rights of Americans whose texts or emails are “incidentally” collected when communicating with those people.

This warrantless surveillance of Americans is unconstitutional and should be struck down."

A sad day for the open internet. #EFF resigns from #W3C over #DRM

EFF to ICANN's Registrars: Don't Pick Up the Censor's Pen

#EFF has spent the week at the annual general meeting of #ICANN, the global multi-stakeholder regulatory #authority for #Internet #domain names and #IP addresses. The focus during this meeting is on speaking out against the increasing use of the domain name #system as a mechanism for content #censorship. The presentations were in the form of a short and simple message to ICANN, to the registries who operate its top-level domains, and the registrars who offer domains to the public: don't pick up the censor's pen.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/eff-icanns-registrars-dont-pick-censors-pen

#infosec #cyberaware #security #legal

#W3C #EFF #HTML5 #DRM: "Five days ago, the World Wide Web Consortium announced that it would go ahead with its project of making DRM for web-video, and that the Director, Tim Berners-Lee had overruled or decided not to act further on all objections about the dangers this posed to legitimate and important activities including security audits, accessibility adaptation and competition.

The W3C has an appeals process, which has never been successfully used in W3C history. If 5 percent of the members appeal a decision by the Director, all members are entitled to vote, and if there's a majority in favor of overulling the Director, the decision is unmade.

Today, I formally initiated that appeal process in my capacity as W3C Advisory Committee representative for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Our appeal is based on two premises:"