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Event | February 20, 2020

The Future of the Internet: Protocols vs. Platforms

The early Internet evolved around many different protocols. Email utilized Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Post Office Protocol (POP), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP); The web was accessed using Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), with data sent over Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP); and you could...

Event | February 27, 2020

The Digital Agenda in Europe (Copenhagen)

EFF's Jillian C. York will join journalist Emma Holten and activist Henrik Chulu for a discussion about digital platforms and the European digital agenda at the invitation of Danish MEP Karen Melchior.

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | February 13, 2020

In Foreshadowing Cryptocurrency Regulations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Prioritizes Law Enforcement Concerns

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin foreshadowed the Trump administration’s plans for greater surveillance of cryptocurrency users during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. He noted that cryptocurrency was a “crucial area” for the Treasury Department to examine, and said:We are working with FinCEN and we...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Hayley Tsukayama | February 13, 2020

California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers

California police and sheriffs are failing to protect the privacy of drivers on city streets, the California State Auditor’s office determined after a seven-month investigation into the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by the Los Angeles Police Department and three other local law enforcement agencies. California State...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | February 12, 2020

Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later: Let’s Think of the Users

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is one of the most important laws affecting the Internet and technology. Without the DMCA’s safe harbors from crippling copyright liability, many of the services on which we rely, big and small, commercial and noncommercial, would not exist. That means Youtube, but also Wikipedia,...

Press Release | February 12, 2020

EFF Fights to Protect Anonymity of Glassdoor Commenter

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking a state court to protect the identity of an anonymous Glassdoor commenter who is being targeted by their former employer. EFF filed a motion to quash a subpoena for identifying information of its client after the cryptocurrency exchange company...

Legal Case

Payward, Inc. (Kraken) v. Does 1-10

EFF represents an anonymous speaker targeted by their former employer for leaving a review on Glassdoor. EFF's client, J. Doe, seeks to quash a subpoena for identifying information of several former employees of the cryptocurrency exchange company Kraken after the company sought their identities based on a lawsuit alleging the...

Event | March 6, 2020

EFF at SCaLE 18X

We're happy to be returning to the 18th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), where you can find the EFF table in the expo hall all weekend. We're offering member special rates and unique EFF shwag for donation. Come say hi! More information about SCaLE here:SCaLE 18X – the 18th...

Event | February 23, 2020

EFF at BSidesSF 2020

EFF is proud to be a part of BSidesSF 2020 at City View at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco, February 23 and 24.Check out our Ask the EFF Panel at 5:00 pm on Sunday, February 23. Our General Counsel Kurt Opsahl, Staff Technologist Alexis Handcock,...

Event | February 26, 2020

RSA: The Never-Ending Crypto Wars

Location: Moscone CenterTrack: Cryptographer's TrackThe 1993 Clipper Chip sparked a debate on law enforcement access to encryption. While the civil society believed it had won this debate, the crypto wars have returned with complex international dimensions, as the debate moves from encrypted communications to meta-data, cloud data and malware with...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti, Danny O'Brien | February 11, 2020

Uruguay Steps Too Quickly into the Right to be Forgotten Quagmire

The further the "Right to be Forgotten" (RTBF) online progresses from its original creation by Europe's Court of Justice, the broader and more damaging its ramifications seem to be. The latest attempt to insert it is a rushed proposal in Uruguay. The complaints of multiple digital rights groups across...

Event | February 16, 2020

Phishing and Malware

Cryptoparty Ann Arbor, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Phishing and MalwareFrom the Organizers:The most common threats you are likely to face online are links and files pretending to be something they’re not — in other words, phishing and malware....

Event | February 16, 2020

Social Media: Challenges and Ways to Promote Freedoms and Protect Activists (Doha)

EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York will be speaking at an internationally-organized event in Doha entitled “Social Media: Challenges and Ways to Promote Freedoms and Protect Activists”.

Press Release | February 10, 2020

EFF, Internet Society, and Professors To Discuss Controversial Sale of the .ORG Registry

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and advocates for public interest organizations will participate tomorrow in an open discussion about a controversial plan by the nonprofit Internet Society to sell the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital.EFF and hundreds of .ORGs oppose the $1.1 billion transaction, which...

Event | February 16, 2020

SecuriTEA Time: FeministCyberSelfDefense

SecuriTEA Time: FeministCyberSelfDefenseFrom the Organizers:“'Caring for myself is not an indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.'” - Audre LordeThe holistic approach to security integrates self-care, well-being, digital security, and information security into traditional security management practices."Our digital lives may not be as separate...

Deeplinks Blog

Deeplinks Blog

The Future of the Internet: Protocols vs. Platforms

The Digital Agenda in Europe (Copenhagen)

In Foreshadowing Cryptocurrency Regulations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Prioritizes Law Enforcement Concerns

California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers

Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later: Let’s Think of the Users

EFF Fights to Protect Anonymity of Glassdoor Commenter

Payward, Inc. (Kraken) v. Does 1-10

EFF at SCaLE 18X

EFF at BSidesSF 2020

RSA: The Never-Ending Crypto Wars

Uruguay Steps Too Quickly into the Right to be Forgotten Quagmire

Phishing and Malware

Social Media: Challenges and Ways to Promote Freedoms and Protect Activists (Doha)

EFF, Internet Society, and Professors To Discuss Controversial Sale of the .ORG Registry

SecuriTEA Time: FeministCyberSelfDefense

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