EFF's Response to Social Media Companies' Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who en

If you've ever bought an inkjet printer, you know just how much the manufacturers charge for ink (more than vintage Champagne!) and you may also know that you can avoid those sky-high prices by buying third-party inks, or refilled cartridges, or kits to refill your own cartridges. The major printer manufacturers have never liked this very much, and they've invented a whole playbook to force you to

Website blocking to deal with alleged copyright infringement is like cutting off your hand to deal with a papercut. Sure, you don’t have a papercut anymore, but you’ve also lost a lot more than you’ve gained. The latest country to consider a website blocking proposal is Japan, and EFF has responded to the call for comment by sharing all the reasons that cutting off websites is a terrible solution

With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF. It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow’s vision

Measuring the Progress of AI Research (Archived)¶ This project was active during 2017 and hasn't been updated since then. It collected problems and metrics/datasets from the AI research literature, with the intent to track progress on them. The page is preserved for historical interest but should not be considered up-to-date. You can use this Notebook to see how things are progressing in specific

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.1 Every one of those searches was a potential privacy violation. Our lives are minutely documented on the phones and laptops we carry. Our devices ca

The Trump presidency starts Friday. Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's agenda. In a matter of days, the United States will enter a new era. On Friday, President Elect Donald J. Trump will swear the oath of office, pledging to uphold the Constitution. But as EFF has learned in the course of defending our fundamental rights over four American presidencies, our civil liberties need an indep

We’re happy to be able to announce that Cloudflare is the second courageous client in EFF’s long-running lawsuit challenging the government’s unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) authority. Cloudflare, a provider of web performance and security services, just published its new transparency report announcing it has been fighting the NSL statute since 2013. Like EFF’s other client, CREDO,

EFF is proud to introduce Certbot, a powerful tool to help websites encrypt their traffic. Certbot is the next iteration of the Let's Encrypt Client; it obtains TLS/SSL certificates and can automatically configure HTTPS encryption on your server. It's still in beta for now, but we plan to release Certbot 1.0 later this year. As you may know, Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority, co-founded by

The following is a guest post from Martin Frid, Policy Expert at the Consumers Union of Japan. Japan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will see a wide range of changes sweeping the economy and the community, in areas as diverse as food safety/food security, country of origin labeling rules, and copyright. As a staff member of Consumers Union of Japan, I am concerned about all of the

A security flaw in New South Wales’ Internet voting system may have left as many as 66,000 votes vulnerable to interception and manipulation in a recent election, according to security researchers. Despite repeated assurances from the Electoral Commission that all Internet votes are “fully encrypted and safeguarded,” six days into online voting, Michigan Computer Science Professor J. Alex Halderma

This is part 1 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL HTTPS is a lot more secure than HTTP! If a site uses accounts, or publishes material that people might prefer to read in private, the site should be protected with HTTPS. Unfortunately, is still feasible for some attackers to break HTTPS. Leaving aside cryptographic protocol vulnerabilities, there are structural ways for its authentic

アーロン・シュワルツが26歳の若さで自殺したとの報道以来、インターネット内には彼に対する悲しみの気持ちとインターネット規制の変化の要求を表す言葉が次から次へ洪水のようにあふれ出している。 アーロンは、この電子フロンティア財団の優秀なメンバーの一人で、短い人生ながらとても偉大なことを成し遂げた。彼はコード書きで、政治活動家、起業家、RSSのような有名な技術開発の協力者、そして常にインターネットの自由を愛するロックスターだった。ワイヤードが言及しているように、世界は今後数十年、アーロンの人生がこれほど短命に終わっていなければ彼が果たしたであろう数々の素晴らしいことを手に入れる機会を失うことになるだろう。 ここ2年以上、アーロンはマサチューセッツ州の司法省の検事たちから告発され、不正に重罪の容疑がかけられた執拗な訴訟を闘うためにエネルギーと財産を費やすことを余儀なくされていた。彼にかけられた容疑

Iranian Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against Google Demonstrates Dangerous Weakness of Certificate Authorities Commentary by Seth Schoen and Eva Galperin What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm. What’s worse than discovering that someone has launched a man-in-the-middle attack against Iranian Google users, silently intercepting everything from email to search results and po