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Event | April 16, 2020

EFF's 4th Annual Tech Trivia Night

UPDATE: After extensive discussion, EFF has decided to postpone this year’s Tech Trivia Night to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. We hope to reschedule for later this year. News regarding upcoming EFF events can be found on our events page, and updates will be announced...

Press Release | May 22, 2020

Hearing Tuesday: EFF Urges California Lawmakers to Pass Fiber Broadband for All Bill To Ensure Full Internet Access For Everyone During the Pandemic and Beyond

Sacramento, California—On Tuesday, May 26, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask California senators to approve a measure that will transition the state’s outdated communications network to fiber, bringing affordable high-speed broadband service, essential during the pandemic and beyond, to all residents.EFF Senior Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon will testify Tuesday...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | May 22, 2020

EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities

In the Internet age, copyright decisions can have enormous consequences for all kinds of activities, because almost everything we do on the Internet involves making copies. And when courts make a mistake, they may create all sorts of unexpected legal risks. As we explained to the Eleventh Circuit yesterday, a...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 21, 2020

EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities

EFF submitted a letter to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to testify to the negative impacts of mass surveillance on vulnerable communities at the U.S. border. The Special Rapporteur called for submissions on “Race, Borders, and...

Event | May 31, 2020

Future Ada: Online Harassment Privacy & Security Workshop

The Internet is a wonderful place where we can access almost any information in a moment's notice. Many of us use it to stay in touch with colleagues, friends and loved ones around the world. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true: certain offenders will use it to stay in touch...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr, Seth Schoen | May 21, 2020

International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19

Time and again, governments have used crises to expand their power, and often their intrusion into citizens’ lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen this pattern play out on a huge scale. From deploying drones or ankle monitors to enforce quarantine orders to proposals to use face recognition...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | May 20, 2020

New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company

Patent trolls don’t care much about innovation. Their lawsuits and threats are attempts at rent-seeking; they’re demanding money from people who make, use, or sell technology just for doing what they were already doing—for crossing the proverbial “bridge” that the patent troll has decided to lurk under. You might think...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 20, 2020

No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results

EFF opposes a California bill, A.B. 2004, that would authorize the issuers of COVID-19 test results to do so with digital verifiable credentials. This bill would take us a step towards national digital identification, create information security risks, exacerbate social inequities in access to smartphones and COVID-19 tests...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 20, 2020

COVID-19 Patients’ Right to Privacy Against Quarantine Surveillance

Governments around the world are using surveillance technologies to monitor whether COVID-19 patients are complying with instructions to quarantine at home. These include GPS ankle shackles, phone apps that track location, and phone apps that require patients to periodically take quarantine selfies and send them to government monitors. All of...

Press Release | May 20, 2020

California Prisons Block AI Researchers from Examining Parole Denials

San Francisco - A team of researchers who want to develop a machine learning platform to help analyze and detect any patterns of bias in California parole-suitability decisions has been blocked for years by the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In a lawsuit filed today by the Electronic...

Legal Case

Voss v. CDCR

A team of researchers who want to develop a machine learning platform to help analyze and detect any patterns of bias in California parole-suitability decisions has been blocked for years by the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In a lawsuit filed by EFF, the researchers argue that the...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Jillian C. York | May 20, 2020

Facebook's Oversight Board: Who (and What) Is Missing From the Picture So Far

We’ve been skeptical of Facebook’s Oversight Board from day one. We’ll follow closely and keep open minds, because we appreciate it is a first attempt at some semblance of much-needed governance and external review. But no amount of “oversight” can fix the underlying problem: Content moderation is extremely difficult to...

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...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 19, 2020

Victory! German Mass Surveillance Abroad is Ruled Unconstitutional

In a landmark decision, the German Constitutional Court has ruled that mass surveillance of telecommunications outside of Germany conducted on foreign nationals is unconstitutional. Thanks to the chief legal counsel, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), this a major victory for global civil liberties, but especially those that live and...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Kit Walsh | May 19, 2020

Balanced Copyright Rules Can Help Save Lives During the COVID 19 Crisis

Our friends and right to repair leaders at iFixit are can-do people. If they see a need they can fill, they step up to do it – even if that need is massive. And they’ve done precisely that with a new and user-friendly archive of repair information for mission-critical...

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EFF's 4th Annual Tech Trivia Night

Hearing Tuesday: EFF Urges California Lawmakers to Pass Fiber Broadband for All Bill To Ensure Full Internet Access For Everyone During the Pandemic and Beyond

EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities

EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities

Future Ada: Online Harassment Privacy & Security Workshop

International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19

New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company

No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results

COVID-19 Patients’ Right to Privacy Against Quarantine Surveillance

California Prisons Block AI Researchers from Examining Parole Denials

Voss v. CDCR

Facebook's Oversight Board: Who (and What) Is Missing From the Picture So Far

Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger: Your Stories Needed!

Victory! German Mass Surveillance Abroad is Ruled Unconstitutional

Balanced Copyright Rules Can Help Save Lives During the COVID 19 Crisis

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