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<title>EFF report slams Apple, Verizon, MySpace for not protecting users</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/01/report.scores.tech.companies.on.protecting.user.data.from.the.government/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1365711465_house-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[An annual report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has declared that Twitter and Sonic.net are the best tech companies for protecting its users from government snooping and requests from courts and law enforcement. Out of the 18 companies examined in the report, MySpace and Verizon were judged the worst, failing to score a single star in any category, while Apple, AT&amp;T, and Yahoo managed...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>California ''Right to Know'' bill demands access for personal data</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/02/companies.could.be.forced.to.hand.over.data/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1364952513_assembly.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The California State Assembly is set to consider a new bill, the "Right to Know Act of 2013," that may force companies to disclose personal data. Supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the proposal (PDF) would require companies to provide copies of all data collected on its customers, including a list of third parties with w...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EFF: new Ubuntu Linux release suffers from 'data leak'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/30/search.results.transmitted.to.amazon.facebook.others.by.default/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1351634939_shuttleworth-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Web search settings in the latest Ubuntu 12.10 are to blame for what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls a "data leak" and a privacy violation. Unless settings are altered, every time a search is performed for a document, application, or other file using the Dash feature, the search includes results from Amazon. Search results can also return advertisements sent unencrypted in the results, al...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New cybersecurity proposal addresses privacy concerns</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/19/public.outcry.pushes.legislators.to.rethink.act/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/gov.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Senate is reportedly set to consider a new cybersecurity bill (PDF) that will replace the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act, which was blasted by privacy advocates. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a vocal critic of the original act, suggests legislators have responded to many of the "most glaring privacy concerns," though the advocacy group still maintains that such laws are unnecessa...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EFF open letter fights "broadly worded" CISPA bill</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/24/eff.letter.asks.congress.refuse.cybersecurity.bill/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/cispa.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an open letter co-signed by a number of engineers, security professionals, and academics who are against proposed cybersecurity bills. Critics argue that security legislation under consideration, including CISPA, uses overly broad language that could potentially lead to privacy loss for Internet users....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EFF blasts 'Cyber Intelligence' bill over privacy concerns</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a campaign to fight the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a cybersecurity bill designed to allow companies and the federal government to share information to prevent or defend from cyberattacks. The EFF, along with other civil liberties organizations, dispute the bill on the basis that is written too broadly and would be a loopho...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA now says embedding videos is copyright infringement</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/11/mpaa.pushes.to.criminilize.embedding.videos/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/mpaain.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has now included embedding copyrighted videos into the definition of copyright infringement. The legal distinction between actually hosting the pirated video and simply posting a copy of it by embedding it shouldn't exist, the Association argues. It believes doing either should be subjected to the same punishment and be labeled as direct copyright i...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Groups ask Congress to "step back" from IP law proceedings</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/06/lawmakers.asked.to.take.fresh.perspective/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1201/congress-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A long list of companies and organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Congress, have sent an open letter urging congressional lawmakers to take an entirely new approach to intellectual property law. The authors suggest concerns raised over SOPA and PIPA legislation are "too fundamental and too numerous" to be resolved through "hasty revisions" to the existing bills....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EFF vows to help Megaupload users access legitimate data</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/31/users.asked.to.visit.megaretrievalcom/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1201/megaupload.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation has vowed to help Megaupload users gain access to legitimate data, after the government shut down the file sharing service for its alleged role in copyright infringement. US prosecutors recently admitted that third-party hosting companies may begin deleting user data within days....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Concerns mount that jailbreaking may become illegal</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/01/25/eff.seeking.petition.to.keep.jailbreaking.legal/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/cydiain.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is lobbying users to sign a petition in its quest to convince the US government that jailbreaking smartphones and tablets is legal. Back in mid-2010, the Library of Congress ruled that the act is legal, provided it doesn't violate copyright laws. That ruling will soon expire, some believe, and doesn't cover tablets; the EFF is concerned that both need to be...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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