Tag: ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

The digital footprints we leave as we move along in our daily lives are pretty astonishing. As our lives are transformed by the convenience technology provides, the price we pay is the privacy we give up. Today is Data Privacy Day, and we thought it was a good time to highlight one of the areas where companies are watching your behavior closely. The Electronic Frontier Foundation published an ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/25/stop-the-spying-wants-you-to-send-a-video-message-to-congress/"; Stop the Spying is a campaign organized to get citizens to literally "show" Congress their opposition to the telecom immunity issue now being fought in Congress. Rather than the usual letter campaigns and phone calls, Stop the Spying is asking voters to speak out against ...

If absolute privacy is a concern critics are voicing against Apple's latest move with DRM-less tracks from EMI, they should have filed their complaints over four years ago when the iTunes Store first opened. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/There_is_no_privacy_issue_with_iTunes_Store_DRM_free_files'; As the story goes, many users and industry pundits have announced their disappointment ...

Okay, so let's see if we can keep this straight. First Viacom asks YouTube to remove 100,000 videos. Then after Google takes down as many videos as it can, Viacom sues the company for $1 billion, saying Google is profiting from Viacom content including clips from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Now, about a week later, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has turned around and sued Viacom, ...