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Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | March 25, 2019

EFF, Coalition Urge Supreme Court to Maintain Public Access to Government’s Use of Privately Developed Technology

Some of the most controversial technologies government agencies use to surveil the public or automate decisions about them are developed or overseen by private parties. Whether it’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs), cell-site simulators, or algorithmic tools used by federal courts and other agencies to make decisions about people’s life...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | March 25, 2019

Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?

TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA requires...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | March 22, 2019

To Search Through Millions of License Plates, Police Should Get a Warrant

Earlier this week, EFF filed a brief in one of the first cases to consider whether the use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology implicates the Fourth Amendment. Our amicus brief, filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Yang, argues that when...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | March 22, 2019

The U.S. Desperately Needs a “Fiber for All” Plan

We have a real, coming broadband access crisis in the United States. Data from the government and independent analysis show that we are falling behind the world. This crisis comes from the fact that fiber-to-the-home deployment, the alternative to your gigabit cable monopoly (if you even have that...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 22, 2019

This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13

With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | March 21, 2019

Congress Has a Chance to Finally End the NSA’s Mass Telephone Records Program

Earlier this month, the New York Times published a major story reporting that the NSA has stopped using the authority to run its massive, ongoing surveillance of Americans’ telephone records. After years of fighting mass surveillance of telephone records, the story may make our jobs easier: NSA has consistently...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | March 21, 2019

Who Defends Your Data? Report Reveals Peruvian ISPs Progress on User Privacy, Still Room for Improvement

Hiperderecho, the leading digital rights organization in Peru, in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, today launched its second ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?), an evaluation of the privacy practices of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that millions of Peruvians use every day. This year's...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 20, 2019

The Best of Europe’s Web Went Dark Today. We Can’t Let That Be Our Future.

We’re into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down these articles (if you haven’t already, call now...

Event | March 23, 2019

Cypurr Sessions: For the win!

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Cypurr Sessions: For The Win! This month the Cypurr Collective is in a good mood from Amazon being kicked out of Queens. To celebrate, we're offering a break from scary cybersecurity threats to focus...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 20, 2019

More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective

The EU's Copyright Directive will be voted on in the week of March 25 (our sources suggest the vote will take place on March 27th, but that could change); the Directive has been controversial all along, but it took a turn for the catastrophic during the late stages of...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | March 19, 2019

EFF Submits Consumer Data Privacy Comment to the California Attorney General

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires the California Attorney General to take input from the public on regulations to implement the law, which does not go into effect until 2020. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed comments on two issues: first, how to verify consumer requests to companies for...

Event | May 4, 2019

AI and Human Rights Symposium

EFF's Tech Projects Director, Dr. Jeremy Gillula, will be participating on a panel discussing the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on free speech. From the event description: ICT companies increasingly use automated systems to flag illegal or inappropriate content. Because the number of posts potentially linked to terrorist content, hate...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 19, 2019

The European Copyright Directive: What Is It, and Why Has It Drawn More Controversy Than Any Other Directive In EU History?

During the week of March 25, the European Parliament will hold the final vote on the Copyright Directive, the first update to EU copyright rules since 2001; normally this would be a technical affair watched only by a handful of copyright wonks and industry figures, but the Directive has become...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 19, 2019

Here’s Why You Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers

Emails Prove ICE Could Access Data from Orange County Shopping Malls, Despite the Companies' Denials In response to an ACLU report on how law enforcement agencies share information collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials have been quick to deny and...

Event | March 23, 2019

LibrePlanet: Australia's decryption law and free software

Australia passed a law saying it can order anyone, in broad and vague circumstances, to give secret help to the Australian government in decrypting some information. Even people outside Australia can supposedly be ordered to do this. What should the free software community do to defend itself from this threat...

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EFF, Coalition Urge Supreme Court to Maintain Public Access to Government’s Use of Privately Developed Technology

Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?

To Search Through Millions of License Plates, Police Should Get a Warrant

The U.S. Desperately Needs a “Fiber for All” Plan

This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13

Congress Has a Chance to Finally End the NSA’s Mass Telephone Records Program

Who Defends Your Data? Report Reveals Peruvian ISPs Progress on User Privacy, Still Room for Improvement

The Best of Europe’s Web Went Dark Today. We Can’t Let That Be Our Future.

Cypurr Sessions: For the win!

More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective

EFF Submits Consumer Data Privacy Comment to the California Attorney General

AI and Human Rights Symposium

The European Copyright Directive: What Is It, and Why Has It Drawn More Controversy Than Any Other Directive In EU History?

Here’s Why You Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers

LibrePlanet: Australia's decryption law and free software

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