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Event | April 28, 2019

LinuxFest NorthWest 2019: Anatomy of a Deprecation - Disabling TLS-SNI validation at Let's Encrypt

Anatomy of a Deprecation Disabling TLS-SNI validation at Let's Encrypt Jacob is a lead developer on Let's Encrypt, the free and automated Certificate Authority. He also works on EFF's Encrypt the Web initiative and helps maintain the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. Prior to working at EFF, Jacob was on Twitter's...

Event | April 27, 2019

LinuxFest NorthWest 2019: EFF and Friends Open Forum

EFF and Friends Open ForumThis is a recurring panel in which Electronic Frontier Foundation staff (this year, Jacob, Seth, and Sydney) will discuss some of what EFF has been up to the past year and respond to wide-ranging questions from the audience. We also expect to be joined this year...

Event | April 28, 2019

LinuxFest Northwest 2019: We can fix email server encryption!

We can fix email server encryption!Sydney is a Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She primarily works on EFF's initiative to secure all TCP packets, like finally securing email delivery via STARTTLS Everywhere. In the past she has also developed on the Let's Encrypt Certbot client, which secures communications...

Event | April 28, 2019

LinuxFest Northwest 2019: Ghostbusting - Detectability of Invisible Users in Encrypted Chats

Ghostbusting: Detectability of Invisible Users in Encrypted Chats Seth Schoen is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, where he has worked for over 17 years. As the first Staff Technologist at EFF, Seth has helped attorneys and the public understand technology as it relates...

Event | April 25, 2019

EFF in Mexico: Seminar on Disinformation and Elections

EFF's Latin American Senior Policy Analyst, Veridiana Alimonti, will join the panel "The impact of the Internet and social networks on political culture and political-electoral behavior." The discussion is part of the seminar, "Politics and elections in times of disinformation: risks and challenges for democracy" that will be held at...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | April 18, 2019

Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been

Do you know where you were five years ago? Did you have an Android phone at the time? It turns out Google might know—and it might be telling law enforcement.In a new article, the New York Times details a little-known technique increasingly used by law enforcement to figure out...

Deeplinks Blog by Tracy Rosenberg | April 18, 2019

California Attorney General Must Investigate Improper Database Searches on Community Observers at Controversial Police Event

Update August 29, 2019: The California Department of Justice finished its investigation and concluded that misuse did not occur. For more information, read Tracy Rosenberg's report on the Media Alliance blog. This is a guest post by Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance. It was originally published on...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | April 18, 2019

Californians Want and Deserve Stronger Privacy Laws

California made strides to protect privacy last year with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This year, we want to make sure that the state has tools necessary to make sure it can enforce that law, and that everyone will be able to stand up for their own privacy...

Event | May 25, 2019

Keynote: University of Toronto, "What do we mean when we say 'content moderation'?"

EFF's Jillian York will be keynoting a conference at the University of Toronto's Art Museum, on the topic: "What do we mean when we say 'content moderation'?"

Event | April 18, 2019

EFF Argues at Indiana Supreme Court

At 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 18, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue to the Indiana Supreme Court that the police cannot force a criminal suspect to turn over a passcode or otherwise be forced to unlock a cell phone. The case is Katelin Seo v. State of Indiana....

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | April 16, 2019

The Ecuadorean Authorities Have No Reason to Detain Free Software Developer Ola Bini

Hours after the ejection of Julian Assange from the London Ecuadorean embassy last week, police officers in Ecuador detained the Swedish citizen and open source developer Ola Bini. They seized him as he prepared to travel from his home in Quito to Japan, claiming that he was attempting...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | April 16, 2019

How Landmark Technology’s Terrible Patent Has Survived

Stupid Patent of the MonthThere’s an increasing insistence from the highest echelons of the patent world that patent abuse just isn’t a thing anymore. The Director of the U.S. Patent Office, Andre Iancu, has called patent trolls—a term for companies that do nothing but collect patents and sue others—mere...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | April 16, 2019

Julian Assange's Prosecution is about Much More Than Attempting to Hack a Password

The recent arrest of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange surprised many by hinging on one charge: a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) charge for a single, unsuccessful attempt to reverse engineer a password. This might not be the only charge Assange ultimately faces. The government can add more...

Press Release | April 16, 2019

Media Alert: EFF Argues Against Forced Unlocking of Phone in Indiana Supreme Court

Wabash, IN—At 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 18, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue to the Indiana Supreme Court that police cannot force a criminal suspect to turn over a passcode or otherwise decrypt her cell phone. The case is Katelin Seo v. State of Indiana.The Fifth Amendment of...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard, Jennifer Lynch | April 16, 2019

Victory! Fairfax, Virginia Judge Finds That Local Police Use of ALPR Violates the State’s Data Act

Thanks to a recent ruling by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith, drivers in Fairfax County, Virginia need not worry that local police are maintaining ALPR records of their travels for work, prayer, protest or play. Earlier this month, Judge Smith ordered an injunction against the...

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Deeplinks Blog

LinuxFest NorthWest 2019: Anatomy of a Deprecation - Disabling TLS-SNI validation at Let's Encrypt

LinuxFest NorthWest 2019: EFF and Friends Open Forum

LinuxFest Northwest 2019: We can fix email server encryption!

LinuxFest Northwest 2019: Ghostbusting - Detectability of Invisible Users in Encrypted Chats

EFF in Mexico: Seminar on Disinformation and Elections

Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been

California Attorney General Must Investigate Improper Database Searches on Community Observers at Controversial Police Event

Californians Want and Deserve Stronger Privacy Laws

Keynote: University of Toronto, "What do we mean when we say 'content moderation'?"

EFF Argues at Indiana Supreme Court

The Ecuadorean Authorities Have No Reason to Detain Free Software Developer Ola Bini

How Landmark Technology’s Terrible Patent Has Survived

Julian Assange's Prosecution is about Much More Than Attempting to Hack a Password

Media Alert: EFF Argues Against Forced Unlocking of Phone in Indiana Supreme Court

Victory! Fairfax, Virginia Judge Finds That Local Police Use of ALPR Violates the State’s Data Act

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