President Trump signed a resolution to complete the overturning of internet privacy protections that would have prevented ISPs from tracking you online without first asking users to opt-in.
Tag Archives: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Verizon Rebuts Critics of Data-Collecting App
The Electronic Frontier Foundation retracted a blog post today highly critical of Verizon and the upcoming rollout of an app called AppFlash made by Evie Labs.
Policy Experts Push To Make Vulnerability Equities Process Law
By making the Vulnerability Equities Process law, advocates of the idea argue there would be more reliability, transparency and accountability in the process of government vulnerability disclosure.
Digital Rights Advocates Call for Investigation Around W3C’s DRM Extension
Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed into HTML 5.
Mozilla Embraces Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox 42
Mozilla has pushed a feature in Firefox live that allows Firefox web browsers to block certain page elements while browsing privately.
Major Carriers AT&T, Verizon Continue to Lag in EFF Privacy Report
Major telecoms like AT&T and Verizon continue to lag behind in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual “Who Has Your Back” report.
EFF Calls Out ISPs Modifying STARTTLS Encryption Commands
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has backed VPN provider Golden Frog’s FCC filing that accuses ISPs of stripping out STARTTLS instructions from email messages.