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Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 30, 2020

Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act

This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is focused on giving unprecedented powers to law enforcement—including the ability to break into our private messages by creating encryption backdoors. This Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Seth Schoen | June 29, 2020

5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights [UPDATED]

Update: On Tuesday night (6/30), the Brazilian Senate approved the “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. A final amendment cut back on article 7 “Account Registration” so that mandatory identification no longer applies to all users and is, in principle, optional in general. Under the revised text, companies...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 29, 2020

Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition

Cities and states across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, elected officials and activists rightfully know that face surveillance gives police the power to track us wherever we go, turns...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Andrés Arrieta | June 29, 2020

Your Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn't Have to Be

Security researchers have been talking about the vulnerabilities in 2G for years. 2G technology, which at one point underpinned the entire cellular communications network, is widely known to be vulnerable to eavesdropping and spoofing. But even though its insecurities are well-known and it has quickly become archaic, many...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | June 29, 2020

Egypt's Crackdown on Free Expression Will Cost Lives

For years, EFF has been monitoring a dangerous situation in Egypt: journalists, bloggers, and activists have been harassed, detained, arrested, and jailed, sometimes without trial, in increasing numbers by the Sisi regime. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, these incidents have skyrocketed, affecting free expression both online and offline. As...

Event | July 1, 2020

STOP x RadTech: Spying on Activists and Policing Protest

STOP x RadTech: Spying on Activists and Policing Protest From the Organizers: Imagine social media monitoring, aerial drone footage, geo-location tracking, facial recognition processing, and DNA harvesting being deployed to keep an eye on perceived enemies of the state. It seems dystopic, doesn’t it? Yet we’re not talking about the...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | June 29, 2020

Dutch Law Proposes a Wholesale Jettisoning of Human Rights Considerations in Copyright Enforcement

With the passage of last year's Copyright Directive, the EU demanded that member states pass laws that reduce copyright infringement by internet users while also requiring that they safeguard the fundamental rights of users (such as the right to free expression) and also the limitations to copyright. These safeguards...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | June 25, 2020

Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger

EFF Legal Intern Rachel Sommers contributed to this post. When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables...

Press Release | June 25, 2020

EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is joining forces with the law firm of Durie Tangri to defend the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens their Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program, which helps people all over the world check out digital copies of books owned by the...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Naomi Gilens | June 25, 2020

California Agency Blocks Release of Police Use of Force and Surveillance Training, Claiming Copyright

Under a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all law enforcement training materials must be “conspicuously” published on the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) website. However, if you visit POST’s Open Data hub and try to download the officer training...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | June 24, 2020

The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something

Right now, we rely on secure technologies like never before—to cope with the pandemic, to organize and march in the streets, and much more. Yet, now is the moment some members of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees have chosen to try to effectively outlaw encryption in those very technologies...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 24, 2020

Victory! Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance

The push to minimize the government’s power to track and spy on people with surveillance technology has picked up steam as the Black-led movement against racism and police brutality continues to push politicians to reconsider the role policing plays in our lives. Thanks to the tireless efforts of ACLU-Massachusetts...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | June 24, 2020

Brazil's Fake News Bill Would Dismantle Crucial Rights Online and is on a Fast Track to Become Law

Update: A new draft text was released shortly before the voting set for June 25th. It doesn’t include blocking and data localization measures, but the surveillance and identification rules remain. Read more in the analysis of a coalition of digital rights groups in Brazil. Despite widespread complaints about...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | June 24, 2020

The House Has a Universal Fiber Broadband Plan We Should Get Behind

America is behind on its transition to a 21st-century, fiber-connected Internet with no plan for how to fix the problem. Until today. For the first time, legislation led by Majority Whip James Clyburn would begin a national transition of everyone’s Internet connection into multi-gigabit capable fiber optics has been introduced...

Press Release | June 24, 2020

Groundbreaking Community-Building Technologists Join EFF’s Board of Directors

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the two newest members of its Board of Directors: tech executive and advocate Anil Dash and free and open source software advocate James Vasile. Both Dash and Vasile have spent their careers blending technology and community...

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Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act

5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights [UPDATED]

Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition

Your Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn't Have to Be

Egypt's Crackdown on Free Expression Will Cost Lives

STOP x RadTech: Spying on Activists and Policing Protest

Dutch Law Proposes a Wholesale Jettisoning of Human Rights Considerations in Copyright Enforcement

Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger

EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library

California Agency Blocks Release of Police Use of Force and Surveillance Training, Claiming Copyright

The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something

Victory! Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance

Brazil's Fake News Bill Would Dismantle Crucial Rights Online and is on a Fast Track to Become Law

The House Has a Universal Fiber Broadband Plan We Should Get Behind

Groundbreaking Community-Building Technologists Join EFF’s Board of Directors

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