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EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 22:06

Tags: unified communications, Apple privacy, Electronic privacy Electronic Frontier Foundation, dropbox, Networking, Verizon privacy, SpiderOak, LinkedIn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, EFF, Google, at&t, security, Twitter privacy, twitter
EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

By Robert McMillan | 19 May, 2010 04:15

Tags: cookies, EFF, security, fingerprint, privacy
Patent office to review VoIP patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.

By Stephen Lawson | 08 February, 2010 08:42

Tags: patents, EFF, voip, legal
EFF: Browsers can leave a unique trail on the Web

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy concerns when used to profile users.

By Jeremy Kirk | 01 February, 2010 08:46

Tags: internet privacy, web browsers, EFF, privacy
Lawsuit seeks information on federal surveillance of social networking sites

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of California, Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have filed a lawsuit (PDF document) against six government agencies, seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 03 December, 2009 12:43

Tags: EFF, University of California, social networking

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Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.

By Mark Gibbs | 20 November, 2012 15:44

Tags: unified communications, Winn Schwartau, computer safety, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, theft, Identity fraud / theft, hacking, intrusion, EFF, bullying, scams, computer ethics, Jill Kelley, phishing, pornography, fbi, cnn, General John Allen, Central Intelligence Agency, plagiarism, E-mail services, Networking, Kickstarter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, privacy, cia, General David Petraeus, security, Paula Broadwell, ECPA, sexting, intel

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