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NEWS ABOUT: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation stories: 3 news summaries

UCLA Bags $100K Prize With Record-Breaking Prime Number

Winning discovery is
13 million digits long

Sep 27, 08 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - A team of UCLA mathematicians has won one of  the math world's most coveted prizes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Their discovery of a 13-million-digit prime number—only the 46th such number ever found—scores them a $100,000 reward from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The organization is also offering... More »

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UCLA • Electronic Frontier Foundation • algorithms • mathematicians

 Court Limits Bosses'
 Access to Staff Emails 

Landmark ruling extends constitutional protections to electronic communication

Jun 19, 08 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal court has ruled that emails and text messages on work accounts—routinely monitored by some employers—are protected by constitutional safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure. The ruling only applies to electronic communications supplied through outside servers, not internal systems. The ruling forbids service providers from handing over... More »

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email • text message • Electronic Frontier Foundation • corporate monitoring • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • search warrant • Jeff Quon • Arch Wireless • Stored Communications Act • Ontario Police Department • 4th Amendment

Comcast Blocking Lotus Notes

Oct 22, 07 11:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cable and Internet service giant Comcast is disrupting more than just BitTorrent traffic, reports Ars Technica. Tests by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show that Comcast customers using a growing list of apps may find their Net access slowed or denied. A Lotus Notes engineer, for example, discovered Notes emails sent... More »

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Comcast • file sharing • net neutrality • BitTorrent • P2P • Gnutella • Lotus Notes • Electronic Frontier Foundation • Public Knowledge

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