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Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | July 17, 2015

EFF Defends What’s Her Face? From Facebook

Back in the fall of 2011, some undergraduates at Yale created a cool class project. As part of their law and technology class, Bay Gross and Charlie Croom built a website and game that allowed Facebook users to discover how many of their “friends” they really know....

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | July 16, 2015

Patent Reform Under Attack, But Needed More Than Ever

Recent reports from Congress suggest that patent reform might be taken off the table for the summer. This bad news arrives at the same time as a new study showing that patent trolls are more active than ever before. Opponents of reform are trying derail efforts to tackle...

Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar | July 16, 2015

Busting Myths and Countering Misinformation From the Campaign Against Patent Reform

We’ve seen an all-out assault on the side of the opposition to kill the House’s Innovation Act and the Senate’s PATENT Act. As a result, patent reform stands on shaky ground in Congress.
A common trend has emerged in the anti-reform camp’s rhetoric, though: lies, fabrications, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Lee Tien | July 16, 2015

We Told You So: OPM Data Breach Reveals Not Only Lame Security But Weak Legal Protections—And It’s Time To Revisit Both

Over 21 million Americans have just had a taste of the federal government's weak computer security. The recent U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach exposed an estimated 21.5 million records, including the highly invasive SF-85, SF-85P, and SF-86 questionnaires used for background...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, David Bogado | July 15, 2015

Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its Flawed E-Voting System

Buenos Aires is currently in the middle of electing its mayor and city council. With a first round that took place on July 5th, and a second round due on July 19th, the election is the first time Argentina's capital city has used an electronic voting system called ...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | July 15, 2015

Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order: Internet Service Doesn’t Have to Police Music Labels’ Trademark

Striking a blow against the continuing effort to force service providers to serve as IP police, CloudFlare and EFF have pushed back against a court order that would have required CloudFlare to monitor its service to enforce a trademark held by a group of music labels. Last week, Judge Alison...

Press Release | July 15, 2015

New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a new tool that makes emailing your congressional lawmakers a quick and easy process. Democracy.io simplifies and streamlines the current fractured system for contacting lawmakers, allowing you to message your two senators and your representative from a single website.
...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | July 14, 2015

Kenya to Require Public Wi-Fi Users to Register With Phone Number

“Kenya to require users of public Wi-Fi to register with government,” reads a July 1 Ars Technica headline. At first glance, the east African country’s proposed regulations appeared to extend their reach beyond even that broad subset of Kenyan Internet users. According to quotes from officials included in the...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 13, 2015

Domain Privacy at Risk at the OECD in a Devious Move to Bypass ICANN

The powerful interests who shape the development of rules for the Internet have far more resources at their disposal than those who fight for users' rights and freedoms online. As such, they are exceptionally well organized, and you can guarantee for every one of their initiatives that reaches the public...

Deeplinks Blog by Nicole Cambia | July 13, 2015

2015 Pioneer Award Nominations Are Now Open

Nominations are now open for EFF's 24th Annual Pioneer Awards, to be presented this fall in San Francisco. EFF established the Pioneer Awards in 1992 to recognize leaders who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. Nominations are open until 11:59 pm PDT on Sunday,...

Press Release | July 13, 2015

Oscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government To Uncover Records After Years of Airport Detentions and Searches

Washington, D.C. – Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. transportation security agencies today demanding they release records documenting a six-year period in which she was searched, questioned, and often subjected to hours-long security screenings at U.S. and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | July 13, 2015

How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society found that the search engine was enforcing “safe search” in a number of countries, including across the whole of the Middle East and North Africa (or as Microsoft erroneously called the region at the...

Deeplinks Blog by David Bogado | July 13, 2015

Hacking Team y Ecuador: Pronunciamiento En Defensa De La Privacidad

A raíz de las filtraciones que desde el pasado 6 de julio ponen en tela de juicio la venta de software de espionaje de la empresa italiana Hacking Team S.r.l. a agencias gubernamentales de inteligencia de todo el mundo, y particularmente América Latina, organizaciones no gubernamentales defensoras de...

Press Release | July 13, 2015

American Fights Ethiopian Government’s Illegal Use of Spyware in Court Tuesday

Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, July 14, at 2 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal court to allow an American to proceed with his lawsuit against the Ethiopian government for infecting his computer with secret spyware, wiretapping his private calls, and monitoring his family’s every use...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 10, 2015

As Threats to Korean and European Web Hosts Rise, the Manila Principles Go on Tour

If you operate your own website, be glad that you don't host it in South Korea (or if you do, you might want to rethink that). Whereas in the United States, an important law called CDA 230 protects you from liability for comments contributed by users to your website,...

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EFF Defends What’s Her Face? From Facebook

Patent Reform Under Attack, But Needed More Than Ever

Busting Myths and Countering Misinformation From the Campaign Against Patent Reform

We Told You So: OPM Data Breach Reveals Not Only Lame Security But Weak Legal Protections—And It’s Time To Revisit Both

Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its Flawed E-Voting System

Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order: Internet Service Doesn’t Have to Police Music Labels’ Trademark

New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away

Kenya to Require Public Wi-Fi Users to Register With Phone Number

Domain Privacy at Risk at the OECD in a Devious Move to Bypass ICANN

2015 Pioneer Award Nominations Are Now Open

Oscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government To Uncover Records After Years of Airport Detentions and Searches

How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

Hacking Team y Ecuador: Pronunciamiento En Defensa De La Privacidad

American Fights Ethiopian Government’s Illegal Use of Spyware in Court Tuesday

As Threats to Korean and European Web Hosts Rise, the Manila Principles Go on Tour

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