Legal Cases

Whether defending your rights from attack or seeking front-line justice to establish your rights, EFF battles for digital freedom in the courts. Help us with this important work.

• Lenz v. Universal
  EFF filed suit against Universal Music Publishing Group, asking a federal court to protect the fair use and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.
• MBTA v. Anderson
  Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation at DEFCON about vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system, violating their First Amendment right to discuss their important research.
• NSA Spying
  Cases brought against corporations complicit in the NSA's warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans' private domestic communications.
• Travel Screening
  Before you get on an airplane, the government wants to sift through the personal details of your life. If the data analysis says you're a security risk, too bad -- you may have no way of challenging the error.