Ina Fried in Mobile on December 13, 2013 at 3:40 pm PT
Google maintains that the unsupported feature can cause apps to crash.
Liz Gannes in News on July 22, 2013 at 2:51 pm PT
More momentum against patent trolls.
John Paczkowski in News on July 17, 2013 at 3:25 pm PT
The alliance includes 63 companies, investors, non-profits and trade organizations.
… fear of individual exposure when participating in political debates over high-stakes issues can dissuade people from taking part. That’s why the Supreme Court ruled in 1958 that membership lists of groups have strong First Amendment protection. Telephone records, especially complete records collected over many years, are even more invasive than membership lists, since they show casual or repeated inquiries as well as full membership.
— Electronic Frontier Foundation legal director Cindy Cohn
Mike Isaac in Social on September 14, 2012 at 12:59 pm PT
The outcome of Twitter’s legal battle has implications for companies that compile private user information.
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Peter Kafka in Mobile on August 13, 2011 at 5:40 am PT
Authorities said they shut down cellphone service on parts of San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit on Thursday night to stifle a planned protest on the subway system. A BART
statement defended the move “as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately described the move as a “
Mubarak”; others noted the parallels with the
United Kingdom’s proposal to limit phone and social media services in the wake of that country’s riots.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm PT
Apple may not have been in Vegas, but its legions of followers were. The maker of the Mac and iPhone prefers having the stage to itself, but an entire section of CES was devoted to iStuff. Mobilized toured the show floor and has a video report.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT
If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 10:58 am PT
San Francisco lawyer Jennifer Granick, until recently civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is joining the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Zwillinger Genetski. Granick gained a reputation as a lawyer willing to defend accused computer hackers.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2010 at 10:57 am PT
High-profile technology attorney Fred von Lohmann is reportedly leaving the Electronic Frontier Foundation and heading to Google, where he’ll be the search giant’s new senior copyright counsel. In the intellectual property world, that’s a big deal.