Stories about: Electronic Frontier Foundation

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    How do I jailbreak my iPhone? 14/02/2012 08:00:00

    Have you ever looked at someone's iPhone home screen, and noticed that it has five icons in the dock? Or maybe you've seen a classic console emulator running on an iPad? Don't go looking for these apps on the App Store--these features and more are only possible with a hack called jailbreaking.
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    Who really was behind the SOPA protests? 04/02/2012 04:54:46

    Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have trumpeted the grassroots nature of the protests.
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    Twitter's country-specific blocking brings hazards and hope 28/01/2012 12:28:27

    Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be an upside in helping to unmask censorship, some privacy experts said Friday.
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    Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites black out against SOPA at midnight 18/01/2012 18:58:12

    Wikipedia and some other Internet companies blacked out their websites in one way or the other early Wednesday in protest against controversial legislation in the U.S.
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    Wikipedia to go dark in SOPA protest, Twitter declines 17/01/2012 15:19:00

    Wikipedia has decided to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislation in the U.S., following a cue given by some other Internet sites including social news site Reddit which will black out its site for 12 hours on the same day.
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    Twitter stalking case dismissed by Maryland judge 16/12/2011 17:09:22

    A U.S. judge in Maryland dismissed on Thursday a criminal case against a person who was charged with stalking a religious leader on Twitter, upholding "a tradition of protecting anonymous speech, particularly anonymous political or religious speech".
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    Carrier IQ tracking: Your questions answered 02/12/2011 02:07:00

    Many smartphone users are wondering whether their Android, Nokia and BlackBerry devices are spying on them after security researcher Trevor Eckhart recently claimed that a piece of diagnostic software on the phones was acting like malware.
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    EFF proposes new method to strengthen Public Key Infrastructure 22/11/2011 23:57:13

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proposing an extension to the current SSL chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other secure communication protocols.
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    The US Stop Online Piracy Act: A primer 17/11/2011 07:14:35

    The Stop Online Piracy Act, the subject of a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Wednesday, has generated heated debate since lawmakers introduced it on Oct. 26.
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    W3C releases draft online privacy standards 16/11/2011 02:04:53

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first draft of two standards intended to protect the privacy of Web users and allow them to opt out of Web tracking systems.
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    Advertisers can't be trusted to self-regulate on data collection, says EFF 16/11/2011 01:53:18

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn't think that the digital advertising industry can efficiently regulate itself and has issued a statement saying that the self-regulatory principles for multisite data recently published by the Digital Advertising Alliance will suffer from a lack of enforcement.
 
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