Tag Archives: EFF

EFF protects phone-in prescriptions from illegal wiretap

2006.07.05 – 4:35 pm PDT

Ok, well that’s really only half of it. I think most of us like the government doing it’s best to fight crime and the likes, but not at the destruction of US citizens Fourth Amendment rights. Find a better way to do it. The government currently uses a device called a [...]

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2006.05.22 – 7:16 pm PDT

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Stop the Senate from breaking TV and radio

2006.05.05 – 2:46 pm PDT

There’s a push on in the Senate to introduce the broadcast flag for TV and radio: a Hollywood plan to take control of consumer electronics, and force government-mandated DRM on any media system. The EFF has a site that lets you contact your senator to complain about this plan — see below.
To take action on [...]

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2006.04.24 – 6:32 pm PDT

Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA

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2006.04.14 – 3:33 pm PDT

Yet another reason why AOL sucks.

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2006.03.18 – 3:37 am PST

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Feds Unable to Search Own Anti-Terrorism Database

2005.09.29 – 4:58 pm PDT

from eff.org

TSA Stops Deleting “Secure Flight” Records, But Drags
Feet on Project Transparency

Washington, DC - After receiving hundreds of requests from
Americans asking to know what personal information the
government has obtained about them, the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) told passengers that it
“does not have the capability to perform a simple
computer-based search” to locate individual records.

TSA revealed last fall [...]

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how out of it am I you ask?

2005.04.01 – 3:29 pm PST

well, since the begining of april 1st, some hours ago. I’ve forgotten it’s april fools day 5 times, and due to my inate ability to be gullible at times, I’ve been fooled.
*rowr*
:*(
reading today’s EFFector got me the best so far.
http://www.eff.org/effector/

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from eff miniLinks

2005.02.18 – 12:56 pm PST

25million gone to waste… what a sham!

~ P2P Lawsuits and Economies of Scale
This Daily Texan article shares some startling numbers
about the RIAA’s litigation campaign: it has settled
8,423 suits with an average settlement of $3,000.
That’s a total of $25,269,000, not a penny of which
goes to the artists the organization claims to speak for:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=402>
(The Daily Texan)

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from EFF: Enough Already with the Crocodile Tears

2005.01.31 – 6:06 pm PST

Enough Already with the Crocodile Tears
In File sharing
Ed Felten today asks Hollywood to quit shedding crocodile tears over profits “lost” to Internet-enabled piracy — at least while it continues to make more money than ever, while denying movie stars (the “artist”) a more sizable cut:
[Surging profits] undercut the industry’s rent-seeking in Washington, which relies [...]

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EFF: Endangered Gizmos!

2005.01.28 – 4:04 am PST

The EFF now has a list of endangered and extinct software, hardware, and other technologies, which have been slaughtered by Evil Companies, and Bullshit laws.
Check out the list, and see just what you can do to help.
http://www.eff.org/endangered/list.php

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Bad Behavior has blocked 2061 access attempts in the last 7 days.

>>>>>>> .r246