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Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews | October 9, 2019

Twitter "Unintentionally" Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use two-factor authentication, and later find out that they were using that security information for targeted advertising.That’s exactly what Twitter fessed up to yesterday in an understated...

Event | October 21, 2019

Learn About the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) and Record Requests!

The Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Learn About the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) and Record Requests!From the Organizers: The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted in 1966 to make government more transparent so...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | October 9, 2019

Victory! California Governor Signs A.B. 1215

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has officially signed a bill that puts a moratorium on law enforcement’s use of face recognition for three years.Under Assemblymember Phil Ting’s bill, A.B. 1215, police departments and law enforcement agencies across the state of California will have until January 1, 2020 to end any existing...

Event | November 2, 2019

Signal and Surveillance: How to Exercise Digital Civil Liberties in a Surveillance State

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Signal and Surveillance: How to Exercise Digital Civil Liberties in a Surveillance StateFrom the Organizers: The Tech Learning Collective invites you to join us for Signal and Surveillance: How to...

Event | October 27, 2019

Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)From the Organizers: The Tech Learning Collective invites you to join us for Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!), a two-hour...

Event | October 19, 2019

Digital Defenses for the People: Practical Digital Security

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Digital Defenses for the People: Practical Digital Security From the Organizers: Brooklyn Community Pride Center in collaboration with the Tech Learning Collective presents: Digital Defenses for the People: Practical Digital...

Event | October 10, 2019

The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of Hyperpartisanship

Presented by Bloomberg, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the First Amendment Coalition.The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of HyperpartisanshipSocial media platforms face intense and growing pressure to rein in misinformation and extremist content. On the left, presidential candidates are threatening to break up Big...

Event | October 10, 2019

NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent Surveillance

Privacy Watch STL, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent SurveillanceFrom the Organizers: A private company called “Persistent Surveillance Systems” is trying to bring a mini-fleet of spy planes to St. Louis.The mass-surveillance system, which was developed...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | October 8, 2019

Bad News From the EU: High Court Blesses Global Takedown Order

The European Union seems to have fallen in love with the idea of requiring service providers to edit the Internet, with predictable consequences for speech. Until recently, there was reason to hope those consequences could be contained. For example, the EU’s highest court recently ruled that the EU’s ...

Event | October 12, 2019

Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online Scams

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online ScamsFrom the Organizers: The Tech Learning Collective invites you to join us for, “Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites...

Event | October 12, 2019

International Day Against DRM

The Free Software Foundation(FSF), a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:International Day Against DRMFrom the Organizers:Every year FSF's campaign Defective by Design Lab organizes the International Day Against DRM (IDAD) to mobilize protests, grassroots activism, and actions against the...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | October 7, 2019

EFF to First Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Secretly Audio Record Police

The First Amendment protects the public’s right to use electronic devices to secretly audio record police officers performing their official duties in public. This is according to an amicus brief EFF filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The case, Martin v. Rollins, was brought...

Deeplinks Blog by Kit Walsh, Jillian C. York | October 6, 2019

Facebook Shouldn't Give Politicians More Power Than Ordinary Users

Amidst escalating rhetoric about alleged "anti-conservative bias" on social media, Facebook has doubled down on its policies exempting (some) politicians from its ordinary fact-checking and from its hate speech rules. Facebook's policies amplify the harm that hateful politicians can do and are not necessary to advance its stated goal...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Camille Fischer | October 4, 2019

A Race to the Bottom of Privacy Protection: The US-UK Deal Would Trample Cross Border Privacy Safeguards

UPDATE: The UK has now released the text of the UK-US Cloud Act agreement, and an explanatory memorandum available here. Last year, we warned that the passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act would weaken global privacy standards, opening up the possibility of more...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Joe Mullin | October 3, 2019

The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption

Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook’s plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on...

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Twitter "Unintentionally" Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising

Learn About the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) and Record Requests!

Victory! California Governor Signs A.B. 1215

Signal and Surveillance: How to Exercise Digital Civil Liberties in a Surveillance State

Tor: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Everything!)

Digital Defenses for the People: Practical Digital Security

The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of Hyperpartisanship

NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent Surveillance

Bad News From the EU: High Court Blesses Global Takedown Order

Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online Scams

International Day Against DRM

EFF to First Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Secretly Audio Record Police

Facebook Shouldn't Give Politicians More Power Than Ordinary Users

A Race to the Bottom of Privacy Protection: The US-UK Deal Would Trample Cross Border Privacy Safeguards

The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption

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