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EFF, Mozilla, Reddit send open letter to Congress over NSA spying

Craig Lloyd — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:02:28 +0000

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 phone calls and tracking users’ online activity with the alleged help from big internet companies like Google and Facebook. Because of this, 86 civil

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EFF praises Twitter, slams Verizon over user data protection

Craig Lloyd — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:16:19 +0000

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 be surprising to some. The EFF reports that Twitter is the best when it comes to protecting user data, while Verizon, Apple, and didn’t

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EFF clarifies laws behind unlocking and jailbreaking phones

Craig Lloyd — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:25:47 +0000

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, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation has clarified some details about the new laws regarding unlocking and jailbreaking your phone. The EFF

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Google’s new search policy leaves free Internet advocates worried

Eric Abent — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:21:19 +0000

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 notices (made under DMCA), it risks being demoted in search rankings. Obviously, this new decision has won the hearts of

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Carrier IQ retracts cease-and-desist, claims they don’t track Android users

Paul Fang — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:40:02 +0000

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 researcher and XDA developer Trevor Eckhart after he published his findings and details of a number of Android phones (the majority being Sprint’s) shipped with a nearly undetectable

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EFF offers to defend Carrier-IQ whistle blower from legal action

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:51:18 +0000

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 for the Android user’s privacy being conducted by the Carrier-IQ tracking software a while back. The user then

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EFF talks Silk browser privacy with Amazon

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:45:57 +0000

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. The EFF wanted to find out since the browser on the Fire was new to the market how it was handling

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