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Event | September 4, 2015

Das Ist Netzpolitik!

EFF's Jillian C. York will speak again this year at Netzpolitik.org's annual event, Das Ist Netzpolitik!

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Deeplinks Blog by Alan Toner, Peter Eckersley, rainey Reitman | August 8, 2015

Clear Rules of the Road with the Do Not Track Policy

What if using the Web didn’t mean sacrificing your privacy?
We’ve spent years thinking about simple ways for everyday users to demand real privacy online. And, working in consultation with privacy experts across the globe, we’ve got a blueprint for addressing one particularly challenging privacy dilemma: online tracking.
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Event | August 17, 2015

Techno Activism Third Mondays -- August

Sarah Jeong's new book, The Internet of Garbage, takes a look at the problems of harassment through the lens of the online world's struggle to regulate its own worst outputs. From spam-fighting to sprawling copyright law, Jeong's thesis is that whatever fix we consider, it can't just be about...
Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | August 7, 2015

A License to Kill Innovation: Why A.B. 1326—California’s Bitcoin License—is Bad for Business, Innovation, and Privacy

With assistance from Joseph Bonneau, Lee Tien, and Jamie WilliamsBitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto would never have qualified for a license under California’s proposed virtual currency regulationA.B. 1326 (Dababneh) is a bill that would require “virtual currency businesses” to apply for and obtain a license in order to offer services...

Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | August 6, 2015

Canadian Filmmaker Fears for Creative Freedom Under the TPP

The following is a guest post from Brett Gaylor, Canadian filmmaker and creator of RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.
Most people's experience with copyright begins and ends with the FBI warnings that play before movies on a DVD. But for those who make a living from creative work, copyright is...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Noah Swartz | August 6, 2015

Privacy Badger 1.0 Is Here To Stop Online Tracking!

Privacy Badger 1.0 – New Ways to Stop Sneaky Trackers EFF is excited to announce that today we are releasing version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden trackers that would otherwise spy on your browsing habits...
Press Release | August 6, 2015

Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
More than a quarter of a million users have already installed the alpha and beta releases of...

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Legal Case

United States v. Ganias

Army officials were investigating a contractor for theft and other misconduct arising from Army contracts. In 2003, they obtained a search warrant seeking computer files and records from the company's outside accountant, Stavros Ganias. Investigators made a mirror image of three of Ganias' computers on site, copying information relevant to...

Legal Case

In re Telephone Info (Koh)

A federal magistrate judge in San Jose, California denied a government request for historical cell site records, ordering the government to seek a search warrant for the information. The government appealed this order to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh who requested the Federal Public Defender argue why the Fourth Amendment...

Legal Case

United States v. Graham

Defendant Aaron Graham was suspected in a series of armed robberies around Baltimore. Without a warrant, police obtained 221 days of historical cell site location information about Graham from Sprint, which detailed 29,000 location points, an average of 100 data points a day. The trial court denied Graham's motion to...

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