EFF Publishes Apple Apps Developer Document

Security software maker Trend Micro has given its security application, Hijackthis, to the open source community, the company announced. The source code for HijackThis, which was written in VisualBasic, is now available for the...

The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Google was defying the privacy settings in Apple Inc.'s Safari browser in order to monitor users' online activities without even seeking for their consent. The report caused privacy...

Electronic Frontier Foundation - the US based international digital rights advocacy group has criticised the Internet giant Google for allegedly snooping and thus breaching the privacy of the users of Apple's Safari browser. EFF...

Jailbreaking - or freeing your iPhone, iPod or iPad from Apple's constraints to allow access to additional applications and extensions not available on the App Store - has been a thorn in Apple's side for some time. The latest...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that it is looking to widen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in order to make 'jailbreaking' or 'rooting' legal for all consumer devices.The process of obtaining...

Apple and file sharing service Dropbox have agreed to join several other companies working towards improving online privacy for customers.The company has joined the Digital Due Process Coalition, which is being pushed by the...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched the first official version of HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox plug-in which it says helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 popular web sites. The...

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has blasted Apple for remaining silent on a number of developers who have fallen foul of an ongoing patent spat. Lodsys, which the EFF's Julie Samuels describes as, "a...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in partnership with digital human rights campaign group Access, has announced a new project with which it hopes to promote the cause of privacy on the Internet.The EFF's HTTPS Now project aims...

US digital rights advocacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has slammed Apple's latest attempts to stop the jailbreaking of its devices, describing its planned method as 'Traitorware'.Apple has applied for a patent...

Microsoft backtracked on a plan to give users a simple and effective way to protect their privacy in Internet Explorer 8, after the company's marketing men decided they'd rather make money selling advertising. Back in 2008,...

Consumer rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has successfully overturned part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which will allow users to jailbreak their smartphones. The application to change the...

iPhone owners in the US can now legally 'jailbreak' their smartphones thanks to new amendments made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.Jailbroken iPhones can install third party applications that have not been approved by...

Apple's iPhone is worse for innovation and competition than the PC ever was, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has published the iPhone developer contract in full. The deal, which all uses of the iPhone SDK...

A digital rights group has created an automatic system for tracking changes to website terms and conditions and privacy policies. The tool is designed to help users of websites to keep up to date with their rights and...