Tag: EFF

Share The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently got its hands on a juicy little document from the Department of Homeland Security entitled, "Social Networking Sites and Their Importance to FDNS (fraud detection and national security)" (PDF). Turns out that the DHS and immigration officials have been relying on the "narcissistic tendencies in many people" to uncover fake marriages, abuse of ...

When it comes to the Internet, we'd all like to think that we're more flying squirrels than slugs, gliding seamlessly over the Web without leaving so much as a shadow of a trail behind us. But, in reality, we've all had to resign ourselves to the hard truth that no matter how hard we try, we're pretty much guaranteed to leave some sort of digital slime, er... footprint as we surf. According to a ...

The push for proper net neutrality legislation has, at least temporarily, run aground following a decision from a Federal Appeals Court that said the FCC had no authority to regulate service providers. But the fight for consumer rights on the Web doesn't stop with slapping Comcast on the wrist for blocking BitTorrent. A collection of 11 consumer advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier ...

Normally, Know Your Meme spends its time explaining the latest viral phenomena sweeping the Web. But Thursday, the site dedicated an episode of its Web video series to protecting the future of memes by explaining how to defend yourself against a YouTube takedown under Fair Use. Fair Use allows for limited, unlicensed inclusion of copyrighted material in other works for the purposes of ...

Despite having signed off on User Generated Content (UGC) principles, which endorse fair use of copyrighted content in protected free speech, several networks have sent takedown requests to YouTube over politically-themed videos that use short clips from copyrighted broadcasts. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) earlier this week sent letters not only to YouTube, but also the networks ...

It's a sad state of affairs for the music industry these days. It's making far more news for its idiotic statements and unnecessarily huge lawsuits than for discovering and nurturing fresh new talent. This time, though, it's the industry that's on the receiving end of a lawsuit, being taken to court by a mother whose video was removed from YouTube by Universal Music Corp because of the song ...

It was bad enough when we found out these office workhorses were just giving you cancer, now they could be endangering your whole nefarious operation. Bad guys take heed, your laser printer might give you away. Turns out that many laser printers mark every page they print with yellow dots that are invisible to the naked eye. A company can actually use those dots to identify the serial number of ...

In a potentially huge blow to the fight for privacy on the Internet,a judge has ordered that Google must hand over data about every video viewed by YouTube users to Viacom, including usernames and IP addresses. Viacom is suing Google for allowing its copyrighted content to be posted to YouTube, and hopes to use this data to prove that copyrighted material is more popular than user-generated ...

It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking our every move through our cell phones. In November of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to find out how widespread such tracking is. The DOJ didn't hand over the data, so ...