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Deeplinks Blog by Vera Ranieri | August 2, 2017

EFF Continues Fighting For Public Access To Patent Litigation

Did one Stupid Patent of the Month winner enforce its patent in an exceptional manner, so much so that it has to pay defendants’ attorneys’ fees? That is a question a court in the Eastern District of Texas is being asked to decide, with a public hearing on the...

Event | August 24, 2017

EFA August 2017 Teleconference

Are you part of a student group, community organization, or hacker space? If not, do you know others who share your concerns about digital rights?
Whether you're working to raise a voice in your community for privacy, security, creativity, access to knowledge, and free expression—or whether you're looking for...

Event | August 23, 2017

Enigma Interviews featuring Alex Stamos and Eva Galperin

On Wednesday, August 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Alex Stamos, CSO of Facebook, and Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation will discuss the challenges of securing the most vulnerable among us while also protecting society at large.
Enigma Interviews feature world-class experts in...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | August 2, 2017

Require Police to Purge Their Databases of Innocent Citizens’ Personal Information, EFF Tells Virginia Supreme Court

License plates are more than numbers and letters you display on your car. When police photograph your license plate, scan it, record the precise times and locations of the scans, and store all that information indefinitely in a database, they can search this information to piece together your movements and...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | August 1, 2017

Bassel Khartabil, In Memoriam

Bassel Khartabil, the Syrian open source developer, blogger, entrepreneur, hackerspace founder, and free culture advocate, has been executed by the Syrian authorities. Noura Ghazi Safadi, his wife, received confirmation of her husband's death by the Assad-led Syrian government yesterday. The execution took place in secret in November 2015. It...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | August 1, 2017

Misused Espionage Act Targets Government Whistleblowers

This week we celebrated National Whistleblower Appreciation Day—an appropriate time to speak out against the U.S. government’s continued use of the Espionage Act to prosecute government leakers, and in so doing, restrict the flow of important information to the press.

As we wrote on the 100th anniversary of the Act’s...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | July 31, 2017

Stupid Patent of the Month: HP Patents Reminder Messages

On July 25, 2017, the Patent Office issued a patent to HP on reminder messages. Someone needs to remind the Patent Office to look at the real world before issuing patents.
United States Patent No. 9,715,680 (the ’680 patent) is titled “Reminder messages.” While the patent application...

Event | August 2, 2017

Street-Level Surveillance: How to Protect Our Privacy

Police have deployed a powerful web of street-level surveillance technologies across our communities, including cell site simulators, automatic license plate readers, facial recognition, and drones. This spying system invades our privacy, chills our speech, and disparately burdens communities of color. EFF's Adam Schwartz will speak about how we got here...

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Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

In the Internet’s early days, those wishing to register their own domain name had only a few choices of top-level domain to choose from, such as .com, .net, or .org. Today, users, innovators, and companies can get creative and choose from more than a thousand top-level domains, such as .cool,...

Event | September 1, 2017

EFF at Dragon Con 2017

The Electronic Frontier Foundation returns to Dragon Con once again to participate in a series of panels about technology, civil liberties, activism, and pop culture.
EFF Deputy Executive Director Kurt Opsahl and researchers Dave Maass and Gennie Gebhart will participate in a dozen panels on the Electronic...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | July 27, 2017

EFF Supports Senate Email and Location Privacy Bill

Congress Must Enact ECPA Reform Legislation This Year
EFF applauds Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for today introducing the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017 to protect user privacy in cloud content and geolocation information. As part of a congressional effort to reform the ...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm, Mitch Stoltz | July 27, 2017

How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content

Today EFF and Public Knowledge are releasing a whitepaper titled Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? Top-level domains are the letters after the dot, like .com, .uk, .biz, or .mobi. Since 2003, hundreds of new top-level domains have come onto the market, and there...

Deeplinks Blog by Yomna N | July 27, 2017

Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come, Unless We Save Net Neutrality Now

Major mobile carriers are slowing down video streams, a net neutrality violation that heralds things to come if they get their way and roll back legal protections against data discrimination.
Recent reports on Reddit from Verizon Wireless customers have drawn attention to video streams being throttled, which ...

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The Pregnancy Panopticon

Women’s health is big business. There are a staggering number of applications for Android and iOS which claim to help people keep track of their monthly cycle, know when they may be fertile, or track the status of their pregnancy. These apps entice the user to input the most intimate...

Deeplinks Blog by Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen | July 26, 2017

Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer

Many people crossing the U.S. border are concerned about the amount of power that the government has asserted to search and examine travelers’ possessions, including searching through or copying contents of digital devices, like photos, emails, and browsing history. The frequency of these intrusive practices has been increasing over...

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EFF Continues Fighting For Public Access To Patent Litigation

EFA August 2017 Teleconference

Enigma Interviews featuring Alex Stamos and Eva Galperin

Require Police to Purge Their Databases of Innocent Citizens’ Personal Information, EFF Tells Virginia Supreme Court

Bassel Khartabil, In Memoriam

Misused Espionage Act Targets Government Whistleblowers

Stupid Patent of the Month: HP Patents Reminder Messages

Street-Level Surveillance: How to Protect Our Privacy

Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

EFF at Dragon Con 2017

EFF Supports Senate Email and Location Privacy Bill

How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content

Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come, Unless We Save Net Neutrality Now

The Pregnancy Panopticon

Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer

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