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DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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

EFF has hundreds of donors and thousands of active supporters throughout Europe. As part of our expanded international work

CyberSLAPP is a new form of lawsuit.

It refers to a lawsuit filed in retaliation for speaking out on a public issue or controversy.

Major entertainment companies are using 'digital rights management

Net Neutrality is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions on content

EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology in our world. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using digital technologies

a. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation at the hand of an intolerant society.

New technology has the potential to dramatically improve the lives of those with reading disabilities -- including the blind and profoundly dyslexic

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Preserving the Internet's open architecture is critical to sustaining free speech

Innovation is a new way of doing something or new stuff that is made useful.

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention

Trusted computing' initiatives propose to solve some of today's security problems through hardware changes to the personal computer. Changing hardware design isn't inherently suspicious

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of legal monopolies over creations of the mind

Digital radio describes radio technologies which carry information as a digital signal

Using a TOS

Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal.

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information

The Internet is global and so are threats to online freedom. Learn about how EFF is fighting for your digital rights around the world and support our efforts by donating or becoming a member.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement for establishing international standards on intellectual-property-rights enforcement throughout the participating countries.

The World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) 'Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations' is protection

EFF is accredited as a WIPO permanent observer and will be attending the Development Agenda meetings.

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas

The Global Network Initiative is a coalition of information and communications companies

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the UN agency responsible for treaties involving copyright

Privacy is a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by others.

CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment

Cell tracking or mobile phone tracking tracks the current position of a mobile phone even on the move.

An e-book (short for electronic book

Locational privacy (aka 'location privacy') refers to the the ability of an individual to move in public space with the reasonable expectation that their location will not be systematically and secretly recorded for later use.

The U.S. government

Online Behavioral Tracking is a new web technology created many unexpected ways for corporations to track your web activity without your knowledge. Countless advertising networks are able to secretly monitor you across multiple websites and build detailed profiles of your behavior and interests.

Pen trap also known as a pen register is an electronic device that records all numbers dialed from a particular telephone line. The term has come to include any device or program that performs similar functions to an original pen register

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is a U.S. federal law that imposes certain security

RFIDs — technologies that can be used to pinpoint the physical location of whatever item the tags are embedded in. While RFIDs are a convenient way to track items

Google

In the United States

Facebook

Before you get on an airplane

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a term encompassing several different types of voting

EFF's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project aims to expose the government's expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans' privacy. Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests

The Test Your ISP project previously released a much simpler piece of software called pcapdiff. Pcapdiff is a simple command line tool that lets you compare 'pcap' packet captures from either end of an Internet communication; it reports when packets are dropped and spoofed between the endpoints ('pcap' packet captures can be recorded with standard packet sniffing tools liketcpdump and wireshark). Running tests with pcapdiff is a technically involved process; we have a whitepaper outlining the steps involved.