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EFF reaction to breaking news events will be posted in this area by EFF staff. With regard to particular matters in which EFF is directly involved, information will be supplemented by press releases at a later time. For additional information and interview requests please contact our Media Coordinator/Policy Analyst Annalee Newitz at press@eff.org or +1 415.436.9333 x131


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New Ninth Circuit Case Protects Text Message Privacy From Police and Employers

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
Today?s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Quon v. 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 downloaded or read them.

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EFF Speaks Out Against Telecom Immunity Deal

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held a press conference with the ACLU to emphasize that this much-touted "compromise" is a sham aimed at letting both the government and the telecoms off the hook for violating the law and the Constitution.

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Privacy of Text Messages

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
The Court concluded: The search of Appellants? text messages violated their Fourth Amendment and California constitutional privacy rights because they had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of the text messages, and the search was unreasonable in scope.

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minilinks for 2008-06-18

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
A new bill in the Senate is designed to fight spyware -- but Ed Foster says it provides a loophole for software makers who would like the ability to remotely disable software that is suspected of being pirated.

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Biting the Hand that Feeds (Traffic to) Them

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
Last week, the Associated Press sent the Drudge Retort seven DMCA takedown notices, demanding that the site remove excerpts of AP articles ranging from 33 to 79 words that were linked through to authorized copies of the AP stories.

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HOWTO: Analyze Immunity Provisions in FISA Legislation

Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 9:34 am, Over one day old
Just like the original Senate bill, and just like the Bond proposal, this "compromise" fails the litmus test by failing to provide for a ruling on the legality of the surveillance. As this simple litmus test makes clear, all of the proposals so far are still immunity.

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Help Put Fair Use and Transparency on the OECD Internet Agenda!

Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 3:05 am, Over one day old
A broad group of civil society organizations have put together a declaration to the OECD ministers with our recommendations, to ensure that our views get heard alongside those of the many business and government interests represented here.

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Sweden and the Borders of the Surveillance State

Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 1:34 am, Over one day old
Allegedly these monitoring stations will be restricted to data passing across Sweden's borders with other countries for the purposes of monitoring terrorist activity: but there seems few judicial or technical safeguards to prevent domestic communications from being swept up in the dragnet.

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Report: Deal to Stop Courts From Ruling on Illegal Warrantless Wiretaps Imminent

Posted Saturday June 14, 2008, 4:33 am, Over one day old
Such a ruling effects not only the power of the president to order unlawful surveillance, but will speak to any instance in which the executive branch seeks to unilaterally override the will of the people's house.

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Anonymity Preserved for Creator of MySpace 'Spoof' Profiles

Posted Saturday June 14, 2008, 4:33 am, Over one day old
In May, Cicero, IL, Town President Larry Dominick asked a Cook County Circuit Court judge to order the disclosure of the identity of the author of two MySpace profiles that allegedly included defamatory comments and unnamed privacy violations.

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