The SAFE Tech Act Wouldn’t Make the Internet Safer for Users
By Aaron Mackey, India McKinney, and Jason Kelley Section 230, a key law protecting free speech online since its passage in 1996, has been the…
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Victory! Federal Appeals Court Confirms FOIA Requests Requiring a Database Query are Allowed Under the Law
By Aaron Mackey At a time when the federal government is collecting and creating massive amounts of digital data that can implicate people’s privacy and…
New Details About How Federal Law Enforcement in Seattle Obtain Private Information Without Warrants
By Aaron Mackey Federal law enforcement in Seattle sought an average of one court order a day to disclose people’s sensitive information such as calling…
EFF Report Shows FBI Is Failing to Address First Amendment Harms Caused By National Security Letters
By Andrew Crocker and Aaron Mackey EFF has long fought to end the FBI’s ability to impose gag orders via National Security Letters (NSLs). They…
Victory! Individuals Can Force Government to Purge Records of Their First Amendment Activity
By Aaron Mackey The FBI must delete its memo documenting a journalist’s First Amendment activities, a federal appellate court ruled this week in a decision…
If Regulators Won’t Stop The Sale of Cell Phone Users’ Location Data, Consumers Must
By Aaron Mackey A Motherboard investigation revealed in January how any cellphone users’ real-time location could be obtained for $300. The pervasiveness of the practice,…
Victory! EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
By Andrew Crocker and Aaron Mackey A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit…
Judge Dodges Legality of NSA Mass Spying, Citing Secrecy Claims
By Aaron Mackey EFF’s case challenging NSA spying, Jewel v. NSA, has come further than any case trying to end the government’s mass surveillance programs….
Court Denies EFF Effort to Obtain Classified Significant Surveillance Court Opinions
By Aaron Mackey A federal court’s ruling earlier this week has blunted a key provision of the surveillance reform law that required the government to…
The Foilies: Recognizing The Worst in Government Transparency From 2018
By Dave Maass, Hayley Tsukayama, Camille Fischer, and Aaron Mackey The cause of government transparency finally broke through to the popular zeitgeist this year. It…
Victory: Federal Court in Seattle Will Begin Disclosing Surveillance Records
By Aaron Mackey The public will learn how often federal investigators in Seattle obtain private details about your communications, such as who you called and…