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Event | February 26, 2021

Copyright for Internet Creators Town Hall

This event has ended. Click here to watch a recording of the event.If you make and share things online, professionally or for fun, you've been affected by copyright law. Whether you're a YouTube creator, a fanfiction writer, or just interested in watching or sharing "transformative" works (or pretty much...

Deeplinks Blog by Naomi Gilens, Sophia Cope | February 17, 2021

EFF to First Circuit: Schools Should Not Be Policing Students’ Weekend Snapchat Posts

This blog post was co-written by EFF intern Haley Amster.EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit urging the court to hold that under the First Amendment public schools may not punish students for their off-campus speech, including posting to social...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | February 16, 2021

Speak Up for Real Privacy in Virginia

Last week, we raised the alarm about an empty privacy bill moving fast through the Virginia legislature. The bill, SB 1392, is supported by Microsoft and Amazon, and would set a dangerous standard for state privacy bills. Take ActionVirginia: Speak Up for Real PrivacyThe bill has passed through...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | February 16, 2021

EFF to Patent Office: No New Design Patents

Design is incredibly important to how people use and choose products, but design patents are not. They provide exclusive rights only to ornamental product features, which by definition are not useful or artistic; for those that are, utility patent and copyright protection exist instead. As we’ve said before, we...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Danny O'Brien | February 16, 2021

Turkey’s Free Speech Clampdown Hits Twitter, Clubhouse -- But Most of All, The Turkish People

EFF has been tracking the Turkish government’s crackdown on tech platforms and its continuing efforts to force them to comply with draconian rules on content control and access to users’ data. As of now, the Turkish government has now managed to coerce Facebook, YouTube, and ...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | February 16, 2021

Indonesia’s Proposed Online Intermediary Regulation May be the Most Repressive Yet

Indonesia is the latest government to propose a legal framework to coerce social media platforms, apps, and other online service providers to accept local jurisdiction over their content and users’ data policies and practices. And in many ways, its proposal is the most invasive of human rights. This rush of...

Event | February 18, 2021

Who controls the messengers? Regulating journalism and social media while protecting free speech

Social media is being blamed for sowing division, which contributed to the attacks on the Washington Capitol Building and is undermining the fight against Covid-19. Action is needed. But who should decide, could that action undermine the principles of free expression, and what is the role of journalism in the...

Press Release | February 16, 2021

New EFF Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained emails that show that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sent at least one request—and likely many more—for Amazon Ring camera video of last summer’s Black-led protests against police violence. In a report released today, EFF shows that the...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Dave Maass | February 16, 2021

LAPD Requested Ring Footage of Black Lives Matter Protests

Along with other civil liberties organizations and activists, EFF has long warned that Amazon Ring and other networked home surveillance devices could be used to monitor political activity and protests. Now we have documented proof that our fears were founded. According to emails obtained by EFF, the LAPD sent requests...

Event | February 17, 2021

What's All the Fuss About Section 230?

Electronic Frontiers Georgia, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:What's All the Fuss About Section 230?From the Organizers:We're hearing a lot about Section 230 today, and whether it should be changed or eliminated to address the problems of "Big Tech".Just...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | February 12, 2021

Virginians Deserve Better Than This Empty Privacy Law

A very weak consumer data privacy bill is sailing through the Virginia legislature with backing from Microsoft and Amazon, which have both testified in support of the bill. The bill, SB 1392 and its companion HB 2307, are based on a Washington privacy law backed by tech giants...

Press Release | February 12, 2021

Internet Users Deserve More Choice Through Interoperability and Better Privacy. They Can Have Both, EFF Says in White Paper

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a white paper outlining how we can usher in a new regime of interoperability aimed at breaking big tech’s grip on users’ Internet experience while still protecting user privacy. In a white paper entitled Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,...

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Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

Update, June 11, 2021: Today, we updated this paper with a new appendix, "The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly," which analyzes the legal benefits of interoperability under the GDPR, where a regional privacy law creates a sturdy privacy backstop for interoperability remedies. This appendix is also available as ...

Event | February 17, 2021

THINK Series DEBATE: Regulating Big Tech, with EFF's International Policy Director

The THINK series is a cornerstone of the University of Essex Education. The series engages with controversial issues that cross disciplines and discuss the issues and moral dilemmas that really matter.The next series event, on February 17, is dedicated to the power, both financial, social and political, possessed by big...

Event | February 17, 2021

Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future

EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow presents a talk for Purdue University's Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS) seminar series, entitled "Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future."Self-determination is the key to human thriving; it's also the enemy of both dictatorships and monopolies. It's no...

Deeplinks Blog

Deeplinks Blog

Copyright for Internet Creators Town Hall

EFF to First Circuit: Schools Should Not Be Policing Students’ Weekend Snapchat Posts

Speak Up for Real Privacy in Virginia

EFF to Patent Office: No New Design Patents

Turkey’s Free Speech Clampdown Hits Twitter, Clubhouse -- But Most of All, The Turkish People

Indonesia’s Proposed Online Intermediary Regulation May be the Most Repressive Yet

Who controls the messengers? Regulating journalism and social media while protecting free speech

New EFF Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests

LAPD Requested Ring Footage of Black Lives Matter Protests

What's All the Fuss About Section 230?

Virginians Deserve Better Than This Empty Privacy Law

Internet Users Deserve More Choice Through Interoperability and Better Privacy. They Can Have Both, EFF Says in White Paper

Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

THINK Series DEBATE: Regulating Big Tech, with EFF's International Policy Director

Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future

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