DEF CON 19 Getaway Contest – DAYS LEFT!
With only a few days and a 4th of July weekend left, our second annual DEF CON Getaway Contest is getting down to the wire! Thirty-seven participants have raised nearly $4,500 — but it’s not over!
You have until 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Ti…
EFF Files Comments with PTO in Support of Streamlining Reexamination Procedures
Along with Professor Mark Webbink, Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, today EFF filed comments in response to the Patent Office’s Proposals on Streamlined Patent Reexamination Proceedings.
We applaud the Pat…
Tor Challenge Level 3: Video Achievement
At the beginning of June, EFF issued its Tor Challenge, calling on individuals and organizations to set up Tor relays to strengthen the Tor network and help Internet activists all over the world. Then we added the Poster Challenge, offering a Molly Cr…
EFF and Bitcoin
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as “the first decentralized digital currency.” We helped inform our members about this unique project through our blog and we experim…
I FIGHT FOR THE USERS
New member shirts! For a limited time, pick up the new swag featuring EFF blasting through injustice in the digital universe. The front showcases our 8-bit style robot mecha girl throwing EFF pixel fire across the chest. The back proclaims “I FIGHT FOR…
DEF CON 19 Getaway Contest Update!
We’re pleased to report a great response to our second annual DEF CON Getaway Contest! Now at the halfway point, thirty-one participants have raised over $2,500 so far!
Who will win the mind-numbingly good Grand Prize Package including a standard suite…
How to Disable Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature
Back in December of 2010, Facebook debuted its tag suggestion feature, which works by using facial recognition technology to examine photos in which you’ve already been tagged, and then creating what Facebook calls your “photo summary” or “photo comparison information,” or what we’ll call your “facial fingerprint.” Using this information, FB suggests your name to your friends when they upload a photo of you, and invites them to tag you in that photo. Over the last few months, Facebook has been slowly rolling this feature out to all of its users, which caught the attention of security firm Sophos, The New York Times, and the European Union, which has launched a probe to investigate the new feature.
Like most new Facebook features, this one is turned on by default. If you would prefer not to have Facebook store your facial fingerprint and use it to suggest photos in which your friends can tag you, you will need to opt out manually. The following video will show you three ways to delete your facial fingerprint data from Facebook, and show you a privacy setting that lets you ensure that you are the only person who can see tags identifying you in photographs.
EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
EFF today filed a petition with the Department of Justice and the FCC asking the administration to deny AT&T Inc.’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA, based on concerns about the risk of non-neutral behavior as a result of decreased competition. …
Geek Gathering: Social Media and the Tunisian Revolution on 5/20
Join EFF on Friday to learn the inside story on social media and the Arab Spring!
How important are social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook for international activists fighting for their liberty? Are these networks forging a new international…
Documenting Tools for Beating Internet Censorship
Network censorship and surveillance is a booming business. Censorship schemes continue to fragment the Internet and new censorship proposals are constantly introduced around the world, including in liberal democracies. (Lately governments have gotten f…
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