Press Releases: November 2013

Press Release | November 26, 2013

Human Rights and Privacy Groups Launch Global Action to Oppose Mass Surveillance

San Francisco - An international coalition of human rights and privacy organizations today launched an action center to oppose mass surveillance on the global stage: necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action. The new petition site went live just as the United Nations voted on a resolution to recognize the need for the international...

Press Release | November 25, 2013

EFF Argues for Release of Secret Legal Opinion on Surveillance Authority on Tuesday

Washington, DC - Lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will appear before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday morning to argue for the release of a secret legal opinion on the federal government’s surveillance authority. For nearly three years, EFF has sought,...

Press Release | November 20, 2013

Free Speech Advocates File Brief Supporting 'The Dirty' Defamation Appeal

Cincinatti, Ohio - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of free speech advocates filed an amicus brief supporting thedirty.com's appeal of a defamation ruling that contradicts protections for website operators contained in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). In the brief, filed in the US Court...

Press Release | November 6, 2013

EFF Attorney to Testify Before Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday

Washington, DC - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Julie Samuels will testify on how patent trolls harm start-ups and consumers through deceptive demand letters and legal threats at a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Samuels, who is the Mark Cuban Chair...

Press Release | November 7, 2013

EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided a federal judge with testimony from 22 separate advocacy organizations detailing how the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass telephone records collection program has impeded the groups' work, discouraged their members and reduced the numbers of people seeking their help via...