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What is the issue about Innovation?
New ideas challenge the status quo. That's why people who make cool tools get so much heat from the old guard -- and their lawyers.
What is the EFF concern regarding Free Speech?
The internet is supposed to have a free and open architecture which supports absolutely no restrictions to free speech. Governments have time and again resorted to measures to enact censorship laws that restrict free speech on the internet which the EFF had and has been fighting.
What is the issue about International?
The Internet is global and so are threats to online freedom.
What is the EFF concern regarding Privacy?
The EFF seeks to extend our privacy rights into the digital world and supports the development of privacy-protecting technologies.
What is the issue about Privacy?
Your Web searches about sensitive medical information might seem secret, known only to you and search engines like Google. But by logging your online activities, these companies are creating a honeypot of personal information, potentially available to any party wielding a subpoena. And the next time you try to board a plane, watch out—you might be turned away after being mistakenly placed on a government watch list based on erroneous data.
What is the EFF concern regarding Intellectual Property?
The EFF seeks to preserve balance in the use of trademarks and ensure that the Internet and other digital technologies are used to empower the user as a consumer, creator, innovator, scholar, and citizen.
What is the problem with some ISPs?
users' access to file sharing technologies like BitTorrent and GnuTella.
What is the aim of the FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project?
to expose the government's expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans' privacy. Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the project helps to protect individual liberties and hold the government accountable.
What are Terms of Service?
purported legal contracts between the user and the online service provider (websites, MMORPGs, communication services, etc.), despite the fact that users never get a chance to negotiate their contents and can often be entirely unaware of their existence.
What are the problems regarding E-voting?
vulnerable equipment, and technicians having unsupervised control over the systems.
What is the problem concerning Social Networks?
loss of privacy thanks to advertising and immediate sharing of contacts through services offered by the same company.
How are Travel Screenings problematic?
Customs and border officials can invasively search your laptop or cellphone even without a warrant.
How are search engines controversial?
collect lots of information about your search queries which can tell a lot about you and what you've been doing on the Internet.
What problems are posed by the Real ID system?
Threats to privacy and the possibility of increased DMV fees and/or taxes.
What is the problem regarding Search Incident to Arrest?
officials don't need warrants to search a person's cellphone when that person is arrested.
How is RFID controversial?
can help track people through RFID tags on their belongings, thus costing the person his/her privacy.
what must the government do before collecting information
btain a search warrant even if the information to be collected is dialed.
Why is NSA so controversial regarding the Internet?
has been intercepting Americans’ phone calls and Internet communications.
What is the EFF doing regarding locational privacy?
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.
What are Online Behavioral Tracking technologies being used?
Technologies like Adobe's "Local Shared Objects" and Microsoft's "User Data Persistence."
What is the basis for anonymity on the Internet?
an important place in our political and social discourse. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Why is tracking people through their mobile phones controversial?
government doesn't need a warrant based on a just cause in order to legally do it.
What features should digital books retain from their physical counterparts?
should preserve the rich heritage of intellectual freedom, free speech, and privacy that we have with physical books today.
What is CALEA?
is a law that makes it easier for law enforcement to wiretap digital networks including the Internet.
What is the WIPO?
is the UN agency responsible for treaties involving copyright, patent, and trademark laws.
What problems does the Free Trade Act of the Americas raise?
allows U.S. copyright owners' rights to trump FTAA countries' national sovereignty and domestic public policy priorities, and consumers and technology developers in FTAA countries risk losing all of their existing rights under their own national copyright laws.
What is the basis for anonymity on the Internet?
Anonymous communications have an important place in our political and social discourse. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment.
What is the Global Network Initiative?
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.
What is the challenge concerning technological development in poorer countries?
knowledge gap and digital divide continue to separate the wealthy nations from the poor.
What currently concerns EFF Europe?
combatting the growth of invasive European intellectual property law and policies, addressing free speech and innovation issues in Internet filtering and blocking, defending the privacy of Europeans from international threats to the rights protected by the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), and monitoring the effects of EU's introduction of data retention regime.
What concerns does the Broadcasting Treaty raise?
this hurt innovation and threaten citizens' access to information, it would change the nature of the Internet as a communication medium.
Why are Terms of Use contracts biased?
written by the service providers themselves and users cannot negotiate the terms.
What concerns does the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement raise?
concerns about 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.
How can the patent system be improved?
to advocate for good legislation in Congress and proper interpretation of that legislation by the courts. Another is to promote enforcement efforts, such as the reexamination of bogus patents
How many people in the United States have used file sharing?
60 million people
What effect does the DMCA have on anonymous free speech?
puts anonymous speech in jeopardy; misusing its subpoena power, copyright holders can attempt to unmask an Internet user's identity based on a mere allegation of infringement without filing an actual lawsuit or providing the user any constitutional due process.
Will restrictions on Digital Video use curb Internet piracy?
No because it will only make ordinary users' lives harder when trying to use digital video.
What will happen if the Broadcast Flag was fully implemented?
Hollywood and federal bureaucrats will get a veto over innovative devices and legitimate uses of recorded programming.
What does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act do instead of curbing piracy and other illegal use of digital media?
It jeopardizes fair use, impedes competition and innovation, chills free expression and scientific research, and interferes with computer intrusion laws.
Is it legal to record radio programs? How so?
Yes, through the fair use right that we have.
What will happen if the Broadcast Flag was fully implemented?
Hollywood and federal bureaucrats will get a veto over innovative devices and legitimate uses of recorded programming.
What are patents designed to do?
used to promote investment, public disclosure, and most importantly, useful innovation.
What agency is in charge of making the rules of Net Neutrality? Can it be trusted?
The Federal Communications Commission
What does Trusted Computing propose to resolve?
It proposes to solve some of today's security problems through hardware changes to the personal computer.
What is the Coder's Right Project?
an effort to protect tinkerers and hackers as they research new and more innovative developments in technologies.
How does EFF benefit those who have reading disabilities?
It encourages the transformation of content (copyrighted or not) into a form (ex. refreshable Braille) that is more accessible for the user.
What is Digital Rights Management?
a technology used by media and entertainment companies to try to protect copyrighted media from illegal us
What is a Broadcast Flag?
a technology that "flags" or marks a TV broadcast as unrecordable, thus TiVo and other content recording devices cannot function.
What is CyberSLAPP?
joint effort to preserve anonymity on the Internet.
What is the "No Downtime for Free Speech Campaign"?
an effort to eliminate the misuse of existing laws to curb free speech on the Internet.
What are people's concerns regarding anonymity on the Internet?
people don't want the things they say online to be connected with their offline identities. They may be concerned about political or economic retribution, harassment, or even threats to their lives.
What is the EFF concern regarding Privacy?
seeks to extend our privacy rights into the digital world and supports the development of privacy-protecting technologies.
What kind of bloggers does the EFF want on the Internet?
Journalists, Free speech, Political speech, Anonymous, Free from liability