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Event | June 27, 2019

12th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

Please join us on Thursday, June 27th at EFF's 12th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night! This event brings lawyers from Bay Area firms and tech companies together in the ultimate battle of mastery over privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law. EFF’s crack team of legal experts will challenge participants to...

Press Release | June 24, 2019

Hearing Wednesday: California Should Audit Use of License Plate Data

Sacramento – On Wednesday, June 26, at 10 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to approve an audit on the use of automated license plate readers (ALPR) by state law enforcement. ALPRs are camera systems that scan the license plates of vehicles...

Event | June 26, 2019

Big Tech and the Starfish Problem: Why Antitrust Alone Won’t Save Us

A cocktail hour conversation with Harold Feld (@haroldfeld), Senior Vice President of Public Knowledge, and Mike Swift, Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent of mLex (@Swiftstories). They’ll have a one-on-one interview about Harold’s new book, The Case for the...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | June 21, 2019

California’s ISP Deregulation Law Allows Recording VoIP Calls without Consent

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been opposing A.B. 1366, legislation by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, which would renew a law that effectively shields a huge part of the telecommunications industry from state and local regulation. Comcast and AT&T law backed this law, Public Utilities Code Sec. 710, in...

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | June 20, 2019

Sen. Hawley’s “Bias” Bill Would Let the Government Decide Who Speaks

Despite its name, Sen. Josh Hawley’s Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act (PDF) would make the Internet less safe for free expression, not more. It would violate the First Amendment by allowing a government agency to strip platforms of legal protection based on their decisions to host or remove...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | June 18, 2019

Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance

Massachusetts has a long history of standing up for liberty. Right now, it has the opportunity to become a national leader in fighting invasive government surveillance. Lawmakers need to hear from the people of Massachusetts to say they oppose government use of face surveillance. Face surveillance poses a threat to...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 18, 2019

The Lofgren-Amash Amendment Would Check Warrantless Surveillance

The NSA has used Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to justify collecting and storing millions of Americans’ online communications. Now, the House of Representatives has a chance to pull the plug on funding for Section 702 unless the government agrees to limit the reach of that program...

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | June 17, 2019

Certbot's Website Gets a Refresh

Certbot has a brand new website! Today we’ve launched a major update that will help Certbot’s users get started even more quickly and easily. Certbot is a free, open source software tool for enabling HTTPS on manually-administered websites, by automatically deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Since we introduced it in...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | June 17, 2019

EFF's Recommendations for Consumer Data Privacy Laws

Strong privacy legislation in the United States is possible, necessary, and long overdue. EFF emphasizes the following concrete recommendations for proposed legislation regarding consumer data privacy. Three Top Priorities First, we outline three of our biggest priorities: avoiding federal preemption, ensuring consumers have a private right of action, and using...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 14, 2019

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Under the bipartisan Protecting Data at the Border Act, border officers would be required to get a warrant before searching a traveler’s electronic device. Last month, the bill was re-introduced into the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). It is co-sponsored by...

Press Release | June 12, 2019

Details of Justice Department Efforts To Break Encryption of Facebook Messenger Must Be Made Public, EFF Tells Court

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn asked a federal appeals court today to make public a ruling that reportedly forbade the Justice Department from forcing Facebook to break the encryption of a communications service for users.Media widely reported last fall that a...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 12, 2019

Experts Warn Congress: Proposed Changes to Patent Law Would Thwart Innovation

It should be clear now that messing around with Section 101 of the Patent Act is a bad idea. A Senate subcommittee has just finished hearing testimony about a bill that would wreak havoc on the patent system. Dozens of witnesses have testified, including EFF Staff Attorney Alex Moss...

Press Release | June 12, 2019

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

San Francisco and Tunis, Tunisia—While social media platforms are increasingly giving users the opportunity to appeal decisions to censor their posts, very few platforms comprehensively commit to notifying users that their content has been removed in the first place, raising questions about their accountability and transparency, the Electronic...

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Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, Jason Kelley | June 11, 2019

EFF to U.N.: Ola Bini's Case Highlights The Dangers of Vague Cybercrime Law

For decades, journalists, activists and lawyers who work on human rights issues around the world have been harassed, and even detained, by repressive and authoritarian regimes seeking to halt any assistance they provide to human rights defenders. Digital communication technology and privacy-protective tools like end-to-end encryption have made this work...

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12th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

Hearing Wednesday: California Should Audit Use of License Plate Data

Big Tech and the Starfish Problem: Why Antitrust Alone Won’t Save Us

California’s ISP Deregulation Law Allows Recording VoIP Calls without Consent

Sen. Hawley’s “Bias” Bill Would Let the Government Decide Who Speaks

Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance

The Lofgren-Amash Amendment Would Check Warrantless Surveillance

Certbot's Website Gets a Refresh

EFF's Recommendations for Consumer Data Privacy Laws

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Details of Justice Department Efforts To Break Encryption of Facebook Messenger Must Be Made Public, EFF Tells Court

Experts Warn Congress: Proposed Changes to Patent Law Would Thwart Innovation

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

EFF to U.N.: Ola Bini's Case Highlights The Dangers of Vague Cybercrime Law

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