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Broadcasting Treaty - 23 août 2012
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) "Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations" is protection all right : a protection racket for middlemen in the TV and Internet worlds.
If adopted the WIPO treaty will give broadcasters 50 years of copyright-like control over the content of their (...)
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2010 : E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy - 4 juillet 2012
With the 2010 holidays upon us, it’s time to update EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy, which summarizes and comments on the privacy-related policies of several e-readers.
What’s new. We’ve added in the iPad and also added in the software used by many libraries and devices for e-book access, made by Adobe (...)
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Who has your back ? - 8 juin 2012
When you use the Internet, you entrust your online conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what happens when the government demands that these companies to hand over your private information ? Will the company stand with you ? Will it (...)
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Thank You, Internet ! And the Fight Continues - 19 janvier 2012
Today was a truly inspiring day in Internet history. Working together, we sent a powerful message to Big Media and the misguided proponents of the Internet blacklist legislation : we will not stand idly by and let you hamper innovation, kill jobs, wreak havoc on Internet security, and undermine free speech. (...)
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An E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy - 18 novembre 2011
As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year’s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon’s Kindle to Barnes and Noble’s forthcoming Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in the same way mp3s changed how we buy and (...)
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Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle - 14 novembre 2011
Ruling Allows U.S. Government Warrantless Access to Users’ Data
San Francisco - A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to Wikileaks. The judge also blocked the (...)
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EFF Gets Straight Privacy Answers From Amazon About New "Silk" Tablet Browser - 20 octobre 2011
Amazon recently announced that the new Kindle Fire tablet will ship with a brand new browser called Silk. The Silk browser works in "cloud acceleration" mode by routing most webpage requests through servers controlled by Amazon. The idea is to capitalize on Amazon’s powerful AWS cloud servers to parallelize and (...)
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ACTA Signed by 8 of 11 Countries - Now What ? - 14 octobre 2011
On Saturday October 1st, eight countries (the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea) signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Tokyo, Japan. Three of the participating countries (the European Union, Mexico, and Switzerland) have not yet signed the (...)
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Appellate Court Sends Tenenbaum Case Back For Another Round - 18 septembre 2011
In a disappointing ruling, the First Circuit Court of Appeals today overturned a decision by a federal district court that had downsized damages in Sony v. Tenenbaum, a file-sharing case in which a jury originally ordered a college student to pay $675,000 for infringing copyrights in 30 songs. District court Judge (...)
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Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly - 23 août 2011
On Tuesday, we reported that Argentina’s National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) had issued a directive to local ISPs to block two websites—leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com—in response to an order from a federal judge.
Today, on Google’s Latin America blog (in Spanish), Senior Policy Counsel Pedro Less (...)
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Panopticlick - 19 mai 2010
Is your browser configuration rare or unique ? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see (...)
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Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy : A Timeline - 1er mai 2010
Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has undergone a remarkable transformation. When it started, it was a private space for communication with a group of your choice. Soon, it transformed into a platform where much of your information is public by default. Today, it has become a platform (...)
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Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information - 27 avril 2010
Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community of your own choosing. As Facebook’s privacy policy once promised, "No personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least (...)
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Google Book Search Settlement and Reader Privacy - 25 juillet 2009
As Google prepares to ask a federal court to approve its creation of a huge digital bookstore and library called Google Book Search, it’s time to ensure that your online book reading remains as private as your offline reading.
Last updated : July 2009
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Offline, no one follows you around the library (...)
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New Ninth Circuit Case Protects Text Message Privacy From Police and Employers - 18 juin 2008
Today’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Quon v. Arch Wireless is a victory for the privacy of email and text messages. The holding means that law enforcement needs a probable cause warrant to access stored copies of your electronic messages less than 180 days old, regardless of whether you have already (...)
