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Event | June 25, 2020

At Home with EFF: Pride Month Edition

Join us this Thursday for another installment of our At Home with EFF series. This Pride Month edition of our regular livestream series will feature the voices of different leaders from LGBTQ movements around the globe. Clocking in at just one hour long, this lunchtime conversation will feature panelists from...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | June 22, 2020

Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store

Basecamp’s new paid email service, HEY, has been making headlines recently in a very public fight with Apple over their App Store terms of service. Just as the service was launching, the HEY developers found the new release of the app—which included important security fixes—was held up over a...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | June 22, 2020

California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang Database

EFF has joined a coalition of civil rights, immigration, and criminal justice reform organizations to demand the California Department of Justice (CADOJ) place an immediate moratorium on the use of the state’s gang database, also known as CalGang. For years, EFF has stood beside many of these organizations to advocate...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | June 18, 2020

Staying Private While Using Google Docs for Legal & Mutual Aid Work

Regardless of your opinion about Google, their suite of collaborative document editing tools provides a powerful resource in this tumultuous time. Across the country, grassroots groups organizing mutual aid relief work in response to COVID-19 and legal aid as part of the recent wave of protests have relied on...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | June 18, 2020

Two Different Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share A Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech

Whether we know it or not, all Internet users rely on multiple online services to connect, engage, and express themselves online. That means we also rely on 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”), which provides important legal protections when platforms offer their services to the public and when they moderate...

Press Release | June 18, 2020

Victory! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression

Paris, France—In a victory for the free speech rights of French citizens, France’s highest court today struck down core provisions of a bill meant to curb hate speech, holding they would unconstitutionally sweep up legal speech.The decision comes as some governments across the globe, in seeking to stop hateful...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | June 18, 2020

Victory! New York’s City Council Passes the POST Act

After three years of organizing by a broad coalition of civil society organizations and community members, New York’s City Council has passed the POST Act with an overwhelming—and veto-proof—majority supporting this common-sense transparency measure. The POST Act’s long overdue passing came as part of a package of bills...

Event | August 12, 2020

29th USENIX Security Symposium

EFF is proud to be a supporter of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium! About USENIX Security: USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. #usesec20 The Symposium has...

Event | July 25, 2020

EFF at HOPE 2020

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) returns in 2020 with an all-new online event for its thirteenth iteration this year, hosted by our friends at 2600. The biennial conference is one of the foremost hacker conferences, full of projects, talks, workshops, and more. We have multiple talks announced, so make time...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | June 18, 2020

California Privacy Advocates Sue Vallejo Over Cell-Site Simulator

Special thanks to legal intern Gillian Vernick, who was lead author of this post. The Vallejo Police Department was warned: by rushing to purchase a cell-site simulator without first crafting a use policy, the agency side-stepped its legal duty to transparency. Now, Oakland Privacy has filed a first-of-its-kind...

Deeplinks Blog by Svea Windwehr, Christoph Schmon | June 18, 2020

Our EU Policy Principles: Interoperability

As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In this post, we take a closer look at what we mean when we talk about interoperability obligations, and at...

Event | June 28, 2020

Digital privacy & Protesting

Cryptoparty Ann Arbor, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: Digital Privacy & Protesting From the Organizers: What you need to know in order to protect yourself and your Digital Privacy before, during, and after a Protest.A Free Workshop Presented...

Deeplinks Blog by Svea Windwehr, Jillian C. York | June 17, 2020

Germany’s Corona-Warn-App: Frequently Asked Questions

This blog post is co-authored with Least Authority, a Berlin-based tech company committed to advancing digital security and preserving privacy as a fundamental human right. This week, Germany’s COVID tracing app finally went live. As governments around the world have been rushing to adopt contact tracing apps in...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | June 17, 2020

VICTORY: Zoom Will Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Its Users

We are glad to see Zoom’s announcement today that it plans to offer end-to-end encryption to all its users, not just those with paid subscriptions. Zoom initially stated it would develop end-to-end encryption as a premium feature. Now, after 20,000 people signed on to EFF and...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin | June 16, 2020

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Cell Phone Surveillance at Protests

As uprisings over police brutality and institutionalized racism have swept over the country, many people are facing the full might of law enforcement weaponry and surveillance for the first time. Whenever protesters, cell phones, and police are in the same place, protesters should worry about cell phone surveillance. Often, security...

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At Home with EFF: Pride Month Edition

Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store

California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang Database

Staying Private While Using Google Docs for Legal & Mutual Aid Work

Two Different Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share A Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech

Victory! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression

Victory! New York’s City Council Passes the POST Act

29th USENIX Security Symposium

EFF at HOPE 2020

California Privacy Advocates Sue Vallejo Over Cell-Site Simulator

Our EU Policy Principles: Interoperability

Digital privacy & Protesting

Germany’s Corona-Warn-App: Frequently Asked Questions

VICTORY: Zoom Will Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Its Users

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Cell Phone Surveillance at Protests

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