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• EFF files comments with US Dept. of Health & Human Services, in opposition to the "Proposed Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information", which are woefully inadequate. (Feb. 16, 2000)
   
• Seeking Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier - Call for Nominations (Mar. 15 deadline): The Ninth Annual International EFF Pioneer Awards (Feb. 9, 2000)
   
• DVD DeCSS case updates: NY judge issues explantory order that attempts to justify preliminary injunction against Web site operator, ISP and publisher. DMCA legislative history shows that the new copyright law was never intended to be used to suppress reverse engineering and free expression. CNN and Linux World coverage: DMCA enables movie industry to harm consumer rights, does nothing to stop real piracy. (Feb. 4, 2000)
   
• Norwegian youth Jon Johansen and his father arrested for DeCSS DVD decryptor at behest of Motion Picture Association; case against them looks weak. Meanwhile, Global Internet Liberty Campaign issues member statement condemning movie industry DVD lawsuits. EFF press release on Johansen case. Short statement by Jon Johansen on the raid of his home. CNN coverage, Norwegian coverage (in English) (Jan. 25, 2000)
   
• CA judge issues temporary restraining order in DVD CCA case, censoring (for the time being) numerous Internet publishers. Press release forthcoming. Text of order. (Jan. 20, 2000)
   
• Three Netizens Silenced by Motion Picture Industry in Early DVD Court Order; Electronic Frontier Foundation Vows to Continue Legal Fight. Press Release * Full text of injunction order * More background documents on the DVD cases (Jan. 20, 2000)
   
• EFF, EPIC and ACLU ask federal appeals court to block new FCC rules that would grant the FBI broad new surveillance power. press release * case documents * CALEA background (Jan. 20, 2000)
   
• Movie industry launches new attack in two federal courts against Linux DVD reverse-engineering: MPAA's censorious federal lawsuits in NY and CT bring false claims of illegal circumvention of copy protection under questionably-constitutional "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA). Many case documents are now available, as well as EFF's press release. (Jan. 15, 2000)
   
• US Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) issues new encryption export regulations on the heels of the much-ballyhooed mid-1999 announcement of Administration's intention to "relax" export controls. EFF, along with the ACLU and EPIC, critical of new regulations as still having serious constitutional deficiencies. (Jan. 13, 2000)
   
• EFF files legal briefs in opposition to DVD-CCA's attempt to suppress constitutionally protected expression about the weakness of DVD encryption: EFF's briefs and other documents are now available. Santa Clara Superior Court reschedules preliminary injunction hearing for Tue., Jan. 18, 2000, at 13:30pm PT. (Jan. 11, 2000)
   
• EFF takes on defense of targets of movie industry gambit for injunction against Linux DVD hack. DVDCCA implausibly alleges trade secret violation under CA law. (Dec. 28, 1999)