Eff Issues

Protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology in our world.

Prevents you from making back ups of your DVDs and music downloaded from online stores, recording your favorite TV programs, using the portable media player of your choice, remixing clips of movies into your own home movies, and much more.

Designed to promote investment, public disclosure, and most importantly, useful innovation.

Online service providers can dictate their legal relationship with users through private contracts, rather than rely on the law as written.

Has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties, for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet, legitimate commerce, and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.

It forced telephone companies to redesign their network architectures to make wiretapping easier.

Could revolutionize reading, making more books more findable and more accessible to more people in a diversity of ways.

Providing publicity and logistical support for combatting bad European tech policy in co-operation with the many digital rights groups across Europe to fight effectively for consumers' and technologists' interests.

The U.S. government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.

Use of cell phone that records to track your physical location without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause

Countless advertising networks are able to secretly monitor you across multiple websites and build detailed profiles of your behavior and interests.

Create grave dangers to privacy and impose massive financial burdens without improving national security in the least.

A technology that can be used to pinpoint the physical location of whatever item the tags are embedded in.

Fighting to protect the privacy and prevent the misuse of this data that users of phones, GPS transmitters and location-based services leak to providers and to the government.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc. records your search queries and maintain massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of your life.

There are countless privacy pitfalls in a world where a near-endless stream of personal bits is indiscriminately posted, indefinitely stored, and quietly collected and analyzed by marketers, identity thieves, and professional government snoops in America and abroad.

Black mark could follow you for the rest of your life, and there may be little stopping the government from using your data for purposes far outside of travel screening.

EFF provides leadership on several fronts -- litigation, legislation, regulation, independent analysis, advocacy -- to help ensure that your vote counts.

It aims to expose the government's expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans' privacy.

Instead of using their true names to communicate, these people choose to speak using pseudonyms (assumed names) or anonymously (no name at all).

Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers).
Bloggers are entitled to free speech.
Bloggers have the right to political speech.
Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous.
Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do.

These cases all involve defending people's right to remain anonymous when they post comments on message boards, as well as making sure that anonymous speakers' due process rights are respected.

Whether you are quoting someone on your blog, inserting clips of CNN into your own video news report, or using a song sample in a musical parody, your free speech often depends on incorporating and referencing other people's creations as part of your own.

Hollywood and federal bureaucrats will get a veto over innovative devices and legitimate uses of recorded programming.

Individuals in the disabled community, as those best placed to determine their own needs, should be free to transform copyrighted works into a form most suitable for their use, as well as to innovate new presentation forms which they can share with other members of the community.

propose to solve some of today's security problems through hardware changes to the personal computer.

You shouldn't be able to record individual songs or move content to another player. And many novel uses will simply never be invented; after all, before you could hit record on your boombox or VCR, time-shifting broadcasted content wasn't "customary."

A serious threat that jeopardizes fair use, impedes competition and innovation, chills free expression and scientific research, and interferes with computer intrusion laws.

Fighting for a constructive solution that gets artists paid while making file sharing legal.

Whether you are quoting someone on your blog, inserting clips of CNN into your own video news report, or using a song sample in a musical parody, your free speech often depends on incorporating and referencing other people's creations as part of your own.

FCC's efforts to protect Americans from "dirty words" in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, or its much-criticized deregulation of the media industry, or its narrowly-thwarted attempt to cripple video innovation with the Broadcast Flag.

Propose to solve some of today's security problems through hardware changes to the personal computer.

Provision that would require all FTAA countries to ban the circumvention of technological protection measures.

A coalition of information and communications companies, major human rights organizations, academics, investors and technology leaders to produce guidance and oversight for companies facing civil liberties challenges in the ICT industries.

UN agency responsible for treaties involving copyright, patent, and trademark laws.

A protection racket for middlemen in the TV and Internet worlds.

Broader perspective should infuse WIPO's norm-setting activity and the delivery of its technical assistance to developing countries.

Promises a high quality picture and fresh crop of innovative technologies that will give you new options for manipulating video.

Enable police officers to find weapons on the arrestee or prevent the destruction of evidence, thus allowing the officers to search the arrestee's person and the area within her immediate control.

Before you get on an airplane, the government wants to sift through the personal details of your life.

Federal statutes require that investigators either get a probable cause warrant or use filtering technology to ensure that only dialed phone numbers are collected.

Use of cell phone that records to track your physical location without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause

To ensure that the Internet community has the tools and organization to quickly recognize when ISPs engage in interference or protocol discrimination in the future.