Tap the Electronic Frontier Foundation Peter Eckersley Staff

Tap the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Peter Eckersley, Staff Technologist <pde@eff. org> Danny O’Brien, Activism Co-ordinator <danny@eff. org> Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist <seth@eff. org>

Sixty Minutes of Audience Questions • • • What does the EFF do, anyway? What’s happening with $TOPIC? Is anyone going to sue me? You’re not going to sue me, are you? Why are Americans so $ADVERB $ADJECTIVE?

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0 x 10 Years of Digital Rights • “Defending Freedom in Digital World” • Gone through several phases – Originally intended to be a foundation – Very few understood issues – Had to do a lot ourselves • But at the core: “impact litigation”

Things We’re Doing • Launched class action against AT&T over NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of its customers. • Represented interests of open source TV projects on the European Digital Video Broadcasting forum. • Represented public interests at WIPO, supporting more OSS friendly international IP law, stood against Broadcast Treaty. • Successfully delayed introduction of broadcast flag legislation for over a year. • Conducted FOIA requests to discover use of air passenger records by US government.

Things We’re Doing, contd. • • Cracked color laser printer dot code. Litigated for transparency in e-voting machines. Created Legal Guide for Bloggers. Analysed and reported, and filed complaint over AOL’s search term leak. • Working with companies to develop internet human rights codes of practice in repressive regimes. • Challenging a series of overreaching software/business practice patents.

Things We’re Doing, contd. • Successfully opposed US governments attempts to track cell phone users without probable cause. • Helped defend right to anonymous speech in several cases. • Supported Tor, the anonymizing proxy • Educated the public on dangers of RFIDs, data mining, national ID schemes. • Fought to ensure online journalists have same legal protections as offline journalists.

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New Places • This year, opened a Washington D. C. office. – nmap for the U. S. Government • A European Office in Brussels. – Work alongside others to promote and defend digital rights in the EU.

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Surveillance What action can I take? Printer dots! Free Trade Arguments Frequently Awkward Questions RIAA and MPAA - what next for them? How to defend your privacy online AT&T Details Any questions or answers? China and Censorship Data retention Analog Hole Broadcast Flag latest Barney the Criminalization of Infringement Dinosaur Windows Vista Coming up in Congress Seth’s Big Announcement Michael Crook

Criminalization of “IP” Crime • DMCA 2. 0 - Intellectual Property Protection Act – Attempted infringement a crime – Authorizes FBI wiretapping in copyright crimes – Permits seizure, including records – Possession of circumvention tech == traffic

Criminalization of Patent Infringement • EU originally making all commercial violations of ‘intellectual property rights’ a crime - IPRED 2 • Last version included patent infringement • If criminal, no liability insurance possible • Europe doesn’t have software patents • Yet.

Government Mandated DRM • • Broadcast Flag - No Myth. TV Audio Flag - No GNU Radio Analog Hole - No Open Digitiser Hardware Mandatory DRM in Streaming Radio - No Ogg

Happier Thoughts • Politicians and the public increasingly “getting it” • Proprietary OSes engaging in “race to the bottom” • Plenty that can be done -- most importantly, don’t be chilled