Like many operating systems, Ubuntu stores information about how you use your computer. This is often convenient because it helps you quickly open recently used documents or search recently used folders. But it also means that anyone with access to your computer can learn these things as well. In the...

UPDATE (3/13/12): After public pressure, PayPal has revised their policy for censoring publishers of erotic ebooks. We are pleased with the new, speech-friendly policy. See our press release, PayPal's statement, and a statement from the National Coalition Against Censorship.
EFF and a coalition of civil liberties...

Last fall, we filed a brief asking the Federal Circuit to rehear Ultramerical v. Hulu, a case that found an abstract idea patentable when the invention took place on the Internet. The Federal Circuit declined, so now we've raised the stakes. In a brief filed today, EFF,...

Danish Police Accidentally Block 8,000 Sites
For years, Denmark has continued to block websites hosting sexually abusive images of children. In a recent attempt to do so, Danish police accidentally censored thousands of websites for several hours, including Google and Facebook. Visitors to the blocked sites were met...

This week Mozilla introduced Boot to Gecko (B2G), a mobile standalone operating system (OS) that is HTML-5, Linux based, and open source. In addition, it is the first implementation of Do Not Track at the operating system level, and not just at the web-browser level. It's an encouraging...

A few weeks ago, we started seeing reports of a Trojan called Darkcomet RAT on computers belonging to Syrian activists which would capture webcam activity, disable the notification setting for certain antivirus programs, record key strokes, steal passwords, and more--and send that sensitive information to an address in Syrian...