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EFF talks Silk browser privacy with Amazon
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that it has talked openly with Amazon about privacy with the new Silk browser that will ship on the Kindle Fire tablet that was announced not long ago....
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EFF offers to defend Carrier-IQ whistle blower from legal action
Privacy is very important to most of us in the tech world. We don’t want carriers following our every step online or in the real world. One Android user gong by the name TrevE discovered a violation...
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Carrier IQ retracts cease-and-desist, claims they don’t track Android users
An update from the whole XDA developer blowup yesterday, data-collection company Carrier IQ has apparently retracted their cease-and-desist letter as well publicized an apology to the security...
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Google’s new search policy leaves free Internet advocates worried
Yesterday, Google announced that it will begin using copyright takedown notices to influence where sites show up in search results. The general idea behind it is that if a site has a lot of takedown...
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EFF clarifies laws behind unlocking and jailbreaking phones
Last Saturday, January 26, marked the first day that it became illegal to unlock your smartphone without permission from the carriers. Of course, many users got upset over the news and for good reason,...
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EFF praises Twitter, slams Verizon over user data protection
Digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released their annual report of which companies are the best at protecting its users data from the government, and the results may...
View ArticleEFF, Mozilla, Reddit send open letter to Congress over NSA spying
The National Security Agency has been on thin ice with the general public lately when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the US government was spying on American citizens by secretly recording...
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EFF lays out NSA data collection issues with demand for investigation
Two new top-secret documents related to PRISM and NSA data collection were published yesterday by The Guardian. Detailed within the documents are various stipulations and requirements related to the...
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FBI sued over facial-recognition database details
The FBI has been sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for access to its biometrics database, arguing that the US agency has failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests and is...
View ArticleObama talks NSA: EFF, Julian Assange, White House respond
Just this morning, United States President Barack Obama spoke up at a bit of NSA news, letting it be known what his real NSA reform plan would be. As is … Continue reading
View ArticleGoDaddy censors Mexican protest site
GoDaddy is one of the larger web hosts out there today and hosts hoards of websites in the US and abroad. The company has reportedly censored a Mexican website that … Continue reading
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Android sends WiFi location history when screen is off
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has discovered what could be a serious privacy leak in most recent Android device. According to them, smartphones and tablets running Android 3.1 or later whose...
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EFF fights to keep jailbreaking legal, petitions US Copyright Office
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is continuing to make its best efforts at ensuring the act of jailbreaking devices like smartphones and tablets remains a legal act. The organization said this...
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US Navy caught soliciting for 0-day security bugs
The US government seems to really have a thing about backdoors, which doesn't sound good whether or not you have an overactive mind. It is almost understandable that the CIA and the NSA and the FBI...
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EFF developing stronger ‘Do Not Track’ standards for web browsers
While a "Do Not Track" setting has become standard in most browsers today, including Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, it's commonly known that internet advertisers still have ways of tracking users....
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JPEG images may one day have DRM copy protection
It's not time to panic just yet, but there could one day be a fundamental change to the JPEG image format that would have a significant impact on the way we view and use images on the web. The...
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EFF claims Google spies on students with Chromebooks, Google Apps
The FCC may have decided not to impose any standard Do Not Track rules on services like Google or Facebook, but that doesn't mean that their tracking activities will remain unfettered, especially from...
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Google refute’s EFF’s “spying on students” allegations
This is quickly going to be a he/she said, he/she said case. Google has naturally responded to privacy watchdog EFF's accusations that the search company is semi-secretly tracking students' online...
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The FTC just put an EFF board member in charge of explaining tech
Things at the US Federal Trade Commission could take a sharp turn toward pushing privacy, as the government agency makes a high-profile EFF member its Chief Technologist. Lorrie Cranor, who sits on the...
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Legere takes another stab at defending T-Mobile’s Binge On
T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't known for holding back when it comes to press statements, and especially when it comes to less formal channels like social networks. While sometimes entertaining, it does...
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EFF sues US government on how DMCA threatens security research
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA has been one of the most debated laws affecting the tech industry. While the intention to protecty copyright in this modern age is commendable, the DMCA has...
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HP says it will restore 3rd party ink cartridge functionality
Few things in the world of technology anger people more than ink cartridges for printers. We have all been trying to print a document only to have the printer stop and force you to replace the...
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US Justice Dept. demands anti-Trump site visitor logs
DreamHost has revealed that the US Justice Department is demanding the records of visitors to a certain anti-Trump website on its network. The website in question is Disrupt J20, which helped organize...
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Ring Doorbell app found sending name, email to 3rd party tracker
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) revealed a study this week which showed the Ring Doorbell app for Android to be tracking users with 3rd-party systems. Included in the mix are four “analytics...
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