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Give to EFF in 2018 and Unlock Additional Grants The world has had its share of dumpster fire years—let’s take control of 2019. If you contribute to EFF before the end of December you will power crucial online rights projects and legal work, and you will also help EFF receive additional challenge grants totaling $40,000. Just as we are all important members of the digital freedom movement, every person counts in our Year End Challenge . EFF has the opportunity to unlock eight challenge grants—from $200 to $20,000—that increase in size as the number of donors grows. When you lend your support, you bring us one step closer to a world that is free of censorship, rejects mass surveillance, and gives individuals just like you the resources they need to defend themselves and build a better world. These are formidable challenges without easy answers, but EFF does not believe in the no-win scenario. EFF’s team of technologists, activists, policy analysts, and attorneys is adept at facin...

EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects Criticism of Patent Trolls EFF has submitted an amicus brief [PDF] to the New Hampshire Supreme Court asking it to affirm a lower court ruling that found criticism of a patent owner was not defamatory. The trial judge hearing the case ruled that “patent troll” and other rhetorical characterizations are not the type of factual statements that can be the basis of a defamation claim. Our brief explains that both the First Amendment and the common law of defamation support this ruling. This case began when patent assertion entity Automated Transactions, LLC (“ATL”) and inventor David Barcelou filed a defamation complaint [PDF] in New Hampshire Superior Court. Barcelou claims to have come up with the idea of connecting automated teller machines to the Internet. As the complaint explains, he tried to commercialize this idea but failed. Later, ATL acquired an interest in Barcelou’s patents and began suing banks and credit unions. ATL’s pate...