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The House Passed Legislation to Keep People Online Despite COVID-19, And the Senate Should Follow

The just-passed HEROES Act is a massive relief package designed to alleviate the harm of a massive crisis. In it is the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, which would make it easier for Americans affected by COVID-19 to stay connected to the Internet. As the Senate takes up this legislation, it should make Internet access a priority, not a bargaining chip. The Details The Emergency Broadband Benefit program mandates that ISPs offer a broadband service for free to COVID-19 impacted people...
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COVID-19 and Digital Rights

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Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board

EFF is proud to announce a new addition to our crack advisory board: security expert and scholar Tadayoshi Kohno. A professor at University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, K ohn o is a researcher whose work focuses on identifying and fixing security flaws in emerging technologies, the Internet, and the cloud. K ohn o examines and tests software and networks with the goal of developing solutions to security and privacy risks before those risks...

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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | May 19, 2020

Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger: Your Stories Needed!

There's a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley's tech giants: it's a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets ("mergers to monopoly") and acquisitions of small companies to neutralize future competitive threats ("catch and kill"). And while...
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Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | May 18, 2020

Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board

EFF is proud to announce a new addition to our crack advisory board: security expert and scholar Tadayoshi Kohno. A professor at University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kohno is a researcher whose work focuses on identifying and fixing security flaws in emerging technologies...
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