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Electronic Frontier Foundation No business can own the generic word for the product it sells. We would find it preposterous if a single airline claimed exclusive use of the word “air,” or a broadband service tried to stop its rivals from using the word “broadband.” Until this year, it seemed...

Electronic Frontier Foundation No business can own the generic word for the product it sells. We would find it preposterous if a single airline claimed exclusive use of the word “air,” or a broadband service tried to stop its rivals from using the word “broadband.” Until this year, it seemed...

Face Recognition Technology: Commonly Used Terms As face recognition technology evolves at a dizzying speed, new uses and terminologies seem to develop daily. On this page, we attempt to define and disambiguate some of the most commonly used terms. Read more...

Face Recognition Technology: Commonly Used Terms As face recognition technology evolves at a dizzying speed, new uses and terminologies seem to develop daily. On this page, we attempt to define and disambiguate some of the most commonly used terms. Read more...

If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access In going after internet service providers (ISPs) for the actions of just a few of their users, Sony Music, other major record labels, and music publishing companies have found a way to cut people off of...

If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access In going after internet service providers (ISPs) for the actions of just a few of their users, Sony Music, other major record labels, and music publishing companies have found a way to cut people off of...

Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last few years and major browsers have made strides in seeing that HTTPS becomes the default. This project has...

Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last few years and major browsers have made strides in seeing that HTTPS becomes the default. This project has...

Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene? Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A...

Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene? Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A...

While a lot of people are minding their toilet paper inventories, some really game-changing legislation is under way that would essentially remove first amendment protections for digital providers. It is called EARN-IT. In short, providers like registrars and hosts could be sued into oblivion...

While a lot of people are minding their toilet paper inventories, some really game-changing legislation is under way that would essentially remove first amendment protections for digital providers. It is called EARN-IT. In short, providers like registrars and hosts could be sued into oblivion...

A group of senators in Washington is trying—for the fourth time—to pass dangerous and misguided language that would amend and expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), our nation’s notoriously vague anti-hacking law. The language was first floated in 2015, then again in 2016, and again in...

A group of senators in Washington is trying—for the fourth time—to pass dangerous and misguided language that would amend and expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), our nation’s notoriously vague anti-hacking law. The language was first floated in 2015, then again in 2016, and again in...

Siding against Booking.com, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging the Supreme Court to rule that the online reservation company is not entitled to trademark its name. The organization argues in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday that companies aren't entitled...

Siding against Booking.com, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging the Supreme Court to rule that the online reservation company is not entitled to trademark its name. The organization argues in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday that companies aren't entitled...