Topic: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Managing Transparency

What are the strategies we can use to deal with unrelenting transparency? Fight it. Accept it. Deceive it.READ»

The Ignorant Network

John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Freedom to Connect, he riffed off of organizer David Isenberg's concept of the ...READ»

Congress Seeks "Kill Switch" For Internet

Congress is considering legislation that could give the President power to shut down large swaths of domestic Internet traffic, should he perceive a threat to national security. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would give the government ...READ»

A Policy Town Meeting of One

Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. What follows is a partial transcript of her talk at WTF 2004, as well ...READ»

Balancing Acts

Unit of OneREAD»

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll ...

... but they like it! Forget Netscape and Intel. These days the hottest acts in Silicon Valley are the Raving Daves, Look Feel, and the Flying Other Brothers.READ»

Masters of the (Information) Universe

Are you drowning in data? Meet three know-it-alls who find the material that really matters.READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Sherry Turkle

Picks from MIT professor Sherry Turkle.READ»

The Dark Side of Social Media

Danah Boyd is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Lisa Poulson serves as president of Kirtland Enterprise Group Inc. Wendy Seltzer works as an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier ...READ»

Using Your Neighbor's Intellectual Property

Recently, a relatively new member of the Ecademy business network posted an article from Scott Allen's About Entrepreneurs site in his blog, without a link and proper attribution. We don't believe that he was trying to claim ...READ»

Blogging at Work

The debate over employee blogs has reached new heights ever since a blogger who works for a blog company has been reprimanded for blogging about employees blogging. (Try saying that three times quickly.) The New York Times today ...READ»

Sign of the Dot-Com Apocalypse IV

FC Now reader Les Black raises the recent activities of the RIAA in a comment yesterday. The current issue of Blender includes a snarky brief on how not to get sued by the RIAA. The Electronic Frontier Foundation offers a more ...READ»

Your iPhone Could Kill Cellphone Towers, Steal Your Identity

That iPhone in your pocket is nasty. If you're not careful about screening SMS's it can steal your personal details. And if you're careless enough to jailbreak the thing, it can kill cell-phone masts. Seriously--even Apple says ...READ»

Cheat Sheet

How to Speak Business This Month.READ»

The Black Market Code Industry

Inside the shadowy underworld where rogue employees sell holes in their companies' software. The buyers: security firms, mobsters, and -- surprise -- the U.S. government. READ»

• Is Your Smartphone Possessed?
• Hacking the iPhone
• The Email Trail

AOL Tech Chief Steps Down

Someone had to take the blame. Last week, Josie Swindler wrote in her FC Now post, "You Are What You Search," about "AOL releasing the 36 million searches of 658,000 people." The data was available as a download and included all ...READ»

Targeted Serendipity

Weblogs aren't just glorified pages of links and rambling personal sites; they are an antidote to mass media. According to the author of "The Weblog Handbook," Rebecca Blood, blogs are also bringing creative expression to everyday people when they need it most.READ»

The Wizard of iPod--Jobs' DRM Deal Is Smoke and Mirrors

Pay no attention to that man in the mock turtleneck behind the curtain. Too much fanfare, Apple's Steve Jobs and British music giant EMI Group announced that for an extra $.30 they will sell songs on iTunes without copy protection. ...READ»

Would You Twitter If Your Tweet Carried a $50,000 Price Tag?

A Twitter-user in Chicago just got hit with a $50,000 defamation lawsuit. What does it mean for the Twittersphere?READ»

Facebook Privacy Update: Don't Use the Default Settings

Facebook turned on the adjustments to its privacy settings today, as promised. Some are good. But others seem ill-considered. Last week I teased Facebook for not delivering quite the service customers wanted. When will Facebook ...READ»