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Earlier today in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, EFF convened a closed-door briefing for Senate staff about the realities of device encryption . While policymakers hear frequently from the FBI and the Department of Justice about the dangers of encryption and the so-called Going Dark problem , they very rarely hear from actual engineers, cryptographers, and computer scientists. Indeed, the usual suspects testifying before Congress on encryption are nearly the antithesis of technical experts. The all-star lineup of panelists included...
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called on Facebook, Google, and other social media companies today to publicly report how many user posts they take down, provide users with detailed explanations about takedowns, and implement appeals policies to boost accountability. EFF, ACLU of Northern California, Center for Democracy & Technology, New America’s Open Technology Institute, and a group of academic experts and free expression advocates today released the Santa Clara Principles , a set of minimum standards for tech companies...
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “ The Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms ” on April 26. Public attention to this issue is important: calls for online platform owners to police their members’ speech more heavily inevitably lead to legitimate voices being silenced online. Here’s a quick summary of a written statement EFF submitted to the Judiciary Committee in advance of the hearing. Our starting principle is simple: Under the First Amendment, social media platforms and...
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Surveillance Self-Defense
The Catalog of Missing Devices
There’s a whole catalog of devices that are missing from our world. Things we’d pay money for — things you could earn money with — don’t exist thanks to the chilling effects of an obscure copyright law: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA 1201).
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