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Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | March 8, 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About Apple and Compelled Speech

Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing Apple to write—and sign—a custom version of iOS would violate the First Amendment rights of Apple and its programmers. That’s because the right to free speech sharply limits the...

Event | March 16, 2016

National Press Club Journalism Institute FOIA Experts Panel

The National Press Club Journalism Institute will host a discussion on how the U.S. Freedom of Information Act is being applied and how it can be improved at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. EFF Senior Staff Attorney David Sobel will join Vice News reporter Jason Leopold, McClatchy Newspapers Correspondence Michael...

Deeplinks Blog by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Peter Eckersley | March 8, 2016

Let's Encrypt Has Issued its First Million Certificates

At 9:04am GMT today, the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. This is an amazing success, coming only 3 months and 5 days since a beta version of the service became publicly available. We're very excited to be building a more secure and fully encrypted future for...

Deeplinks Blog by Mark Jaycox | March 7, 2016

EFF Opposes McCaul-Warner Encryption Commission

Senator Mark Warner and Representative Mike McCaul are calling on Congress to create an "Encryption Commission" composed of business, tech, and law enforcement and intelligence agency leaders that will investigate and report on encryption issues. The commission is set to ask questions already answered in the 1990s like whether...

Deeplinks Blog by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews | March 7, 2016

Victory: Verizon Will Stop Tagging Customers for Tracking Without Consent

Today, Verizon reached an agreement with the FCC to acquire affirmative consent before injecting their UIDH tracking header into their customers' web activity on non-Verizon owned sites. This is exactly what we asked them to do in November 2014, and is a huge win for Internet privacy...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | March 7, 2016

Malaysian Internet Censorship is Going from Bad to Worse

Following our previous articles about increasing political censorship of the Internet in Malaysia, things have quickly gone from bad to worse. In fact since July 2015, the Malaysian government has blocked at least ten websites, including online news portals and private blogs, for reporting about the scandal surrounding...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams | March 4, 2016

Judge Rules Kazakhstan Can't Force Facebook to Turn Over Respublika's IP Addresses in Another Win for Free Speech

The Kazakhstan government had a third major setback in its attempt to use the U.S. legal system to attack one of its fiercest critics, the independent newspaper Respublika. A federal judge in California rejected Kazakhstan's demand that Facebook turn over information about users associated with Respublika’s account on the...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 4, 2016

California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship

Facebook Rightfully Questions Claims That California Inmates Are Banned from Having a Social Media Presence

Up until last spring, Facebook had maintained a semi-secret channel for corrections facilities to file "Inmate Takedown" requests. A prison official could fill out a simple online form, hit submit, and...

Press Release | March 3, 2016

EFF and 46 Technology Experts Ask Court To Throw Out Unconstitutional Apple Order

Riverside, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 46 technology industry experts, including inventors of modern cryptography, told a federal court today that forcing Apple to write and sign computer code disabling crucial iPhone security features that protect millions of users violates the company’s free speech rights.
The Federal Bureau...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Jamie Williams | March 3, 2016

Deep Dive: Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment

EFF filed an amicus brief today in support of Apple's fight against a court order compelling the company to create specific software to enable the government to break into an iPhone. The brief is written on behalf of 46 prominent technologists, security researchers, and cryptographers who develop and...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, rainey Reitman | March 3, 2016

The Privacy Shield is Riddled with Surveillance Holes

The European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce have finally announced the details of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, an agreement designed to ensure that personal data can flow between Europe and the U.S. for commercial purposes while maintaining the privacy rights Europeans have come to love and expect. Lawmakers...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Shahid Buttar | March 3, 2016

Putting digital rights in the spotlight in 2016

With a presidential election looming this fall, mass media and social media will be more focused on policy issues over the next several months than likely at any other point until 2020. We’ve put together a questionnaire for the candidates to invite them to explain their own policy platforms. We’ll...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | March 3, 2016

The State of Free Expression Online in Southeast Asia

Threats to free expression are again on the rise all over the world. As a recent TechCrunch piece outlines, these threats are being felt acutely in Southeast Asia, an ethnically, politically, and linguistically diverse region which includes, Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam...

Event | March 3, 2016

Basic Digital Privacy and Security Workshop

Join Lisa Wright and William Theaker of the Electronic Frontier Foundation as they facilitate a hands-on workshop covering:
* Secure passwords + a password manager
* Keeping a working environment free of spyware and malware
* Online tracking, HTTPS + helpful browser configuration & extensions
Participants...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | March 2, 2016

Perfect 10 and the RIAA Still Trying to Rewrite Copyright to Give Hollywood A Veto Right Over Innovation

Some people just never learn. For decades, porn purveyor Perfect 10 has been fighting a losing battle to deputize service providers to police potentially infringing uses of its works. Indeed, at this point Perfect 10 spends far more time on litigation than creation. But court after court has rejected those...

Deeplinks Blog

Deeplinks Blog

What We Talk About When We Talk About Apple and Compelled Speech

National Press Club Journalism Institute FOIA Experts Panel

Let's Encrypt Has Issued its First Million Certificates

EFF Opposes McCaul-Warner Encryption Commission

Victory: Verizon Will Stop Tagging Customers for Tracking Without Consent

Malaysian Internet Censorship is Going from Bad to Worse

Judge Rules Kazakhstan Can't Force Facebook to Turn Over Respublika's IP Addresses in Another Win for Free Speech

California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship

EFF and 46 Technology Experts Ask Court To Throw Out Unconstitutional Apple Order

Deep Dive: Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment

The Privacy Shield is Riddled with Surveillance Holes

Putting digital rights in the spotlight in 2016

The State of Free Expression Online in Southeast Asia

Basic Digital Privacy and Security Workshop

Perfect 10 and the RIAA Still Trying to Rewrite Copyright to Give Hollywood A Veto Right Over Innovation

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