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The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, [1] [unreliable source?] and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties.
EFF v. Global Equity (see SPEECH Act § Use in courts) Electric Slide Litigation; Eli Lilly Zyprexa Litigation; Embroidery Software Protection Coalition v. Ebert & Weaver; First Cash v. John Doe; Fix Wilson Yard v. City of Chicago; Frankel v. Lyons (Barney) Fuller v. Doe; Indymedia Server Takedown; JibJab Media v. Ludlow Music ("This Land ...
Mogoeng's vociferous dissent attracted media attention, [7] especially after Mogoeng "noticeably interrupted" Jafta's reading of the majority judgment to pass a note requesting that his own opinion should be read into the record in full. [8] The EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi condemned Mogoeng for "fight[ing] [with Jafta] in full view of cameras", [9 ...
Jewel v. National Security Agency, 673 F.3d 902 (9th Cir., 2011), was a class action lawsuit argued before the District Court for the Northern District of California and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, filed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of American citizens who believed that they had been surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) without a warrant. [1]
EFF files a class action lawsuit against AT&T alleging that AT&T allowed the NSA to potentially tap the entirety of its clients' Internet and Voice over IP communications. August 2006: EFF files a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing AOL of violating the Federal Trade Commission Act and asking for
The EFF in turn appealed this ruling, with the dispute again being heard at the Ninth Circuit. [19] In 2011, that court dismissed the appeal because the EFF could not argue that AT&T had any legal liability for cooperating with the NSA surveillance, especially in light of the retroactive immunity against lawsuits enabled by the FISA Amendments ...
Jackson and other Austin area activists including John Quarterman, Jon Lebkowsky, Bruce Sterling, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Lar Kaufman and Matt Lawrence formed EFF-Austin in 1991. Although the raid was not a part of Operation Sundevil , this law enforcement effort, which spanned two years, has a tarnished image owing to a lack of successful ...
[15] [16] [17] Eventually the EFF announced, in May 2015, that it would file a court application to compel Zuma to act on the Public Protector's report. [18] [19] The DA filed a similar application shortly thereafter. [20] The EFF's Julius Malema, who led many of the parliamentary protests against President Zuma but eventually opted for litigation.