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Event | August 10, 2018

DEF CON: Disrupting the Digital Dystopia or What the hell is happening in computer law?

1984 didn't just happen because of a calendar. The world of 1984 was built by politicians who used the rule of law to change society into an oppressive surveillance state. In Washington D.C., politicians today are making decisions about what technologies we're permitted to use and how they'll be used...

Event | August 10, 2018

DEF CON: EFF Tech Trivia

EFF's team of technology experts have crafted challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial aspects of digital security, online rights, and Internet culture. Competing teams will plumb the unfathomable depths of their knowledge, but only the champion hive mind will claim the First Place Tech Trivia Cup and EFF...

Event | August 8, 2018

BSides: Ask the EFF

Questions? Come by and ask EFF's Kurt Opsahl, Nate Cardozo, Eva Galperin, and Nathan 'nash’ Sheard.

Event | August 8, 2018

Black Hat USA 2018: What's Going on in DC and What Does it Mean for InfoSec?

Hack back, anti-botnet, election security, data breach, crypto: all these are buzzwords on Capitol Hill. But what's actually moving, and what will the consequences be for the InfoSec community? EFF staff attorneys will discuss the bills that we think have legs and what's on the horizon. We'll even give you...

Event | August 8, 2018

Black Hat USA 2018: 5 Things Security Researchers Need to Know About Computer Crime Law

In this workshop, EFF's Nate Cardozo and Kurt Opsahl will discuss a handful of simple measures researchers can take to protect themselves in their work. Our tips will apply to both independent and professional research, both hardware and software. While we won't be able to give you legal advice, we'll...

Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Seth Schoen | July 30, 2018

Moving Your Site From "Not Secure" to Secure

Maybe you’re a beginner to web development, but you’ve done the hard work: you taught yourself what you needed to know, and you’ve lovingly made that website and filled it with precious content. But one last task remains: you don’t have that little green padlock with the word “secure” beside...

Press Release | July 30, 2018

Fair-Use Champion Stephanie Lenz, European Digital Rights Leader Joe McNamee, and Groundbreaking Content-Moderation Researcher Sarah T. Roberts Win EFF’s Pioneer Awards

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the winners of its 2018 Pioneer Awards: fair use champion Stephanie Lenz, European digital rights leader Joe McNamee, and groundbreaking content moderation researcher Sarah T. Roberts. The ceremony will be held September 27th in San Francisco. This year’s...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | July 30, 2018

Google Chrome Now Marks HTTP Sites "Not Secure"

Last week, the movement to encrypt the web achieved another milestone: Google’s Chrome browser made good on its promise to mark all HTTP sites “not secure.” EFF welcomes this move, and we are calling on other browsers to follow suit. This is the latest in the web’s...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | July 30, 2018

Defending Users: Initial Ideas for Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Payment Processors, and Other Choke Points Within the Blockchain Ecosystem

The blockchain ecosystem has drastically changed over the last nine years, and the realities of today don’t closely resemble how many early enthusiasts imagined Bitcoin would evolve. People are no longer mining Bitcoin on their home laptops, and most people aren’t storing private keys on their own hard drives and...

Deeplinks Blog by Malika Hunasikatti | July 27, 2018

Egypt Sentences Tourist to Eight Years Jail for Complaining about Vacation Online

When she went to Egypt for vacation, Mona el-Mazbouh surely didn’t expect to end up in prison. But after the 24-year-old Lebanese tourist posted a video in which she complained of sexual harassment—calling Egypt a lowly, dirty country and its citizens “pimps and prostitutes”—el-Mazbouh was arrested at Cairo’s airport and...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | July 26, 2018

California Should Provide Public Access to Police Body Cam Footage

These days, more police officers are using body-worn cameras, or BWCs. That's why it's more important than ever we have clear guidelines around the public's right to access those police recordings. To that end, EFF is supporting [PDF] A.B. 748, a bill currently pending in the California legislature that...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | July 26, 2018

CLASSICS Is the Future of Assaults Against the Public Domain

January 1, 2019 will be the first time in twenty years that works in the United States will once again join the public domain through copyright expiration. A growing public domain means more access to works and the ability of other artists to build on what came before. And...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Danny O'Brien | July 24, 2018

Facing Facebook: Data Portability and Interoperability Are Anti-Monopoly Medicine

Social media has a competition problem, and its name is Facebook. Today, Facebook and its subsidiaries are over ten times more valuable than the next two largest social media companies outside China—Twitter and Snapchat—combined. It has cemented its dominance by buying out potential competitors before they’ve had a chance to...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | July 24, 2018

California Supreme Court Strengthens Section 230 Protections for Online Speech

Special thanks to legal intern Miranda Rutherford who was the lead author of this post. If someone sues you for a review you wrote on Yelp, can a court force Yelp to take down the review? This month, the California Supreme Court said “no” in the case Hassell v....

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | July 23, 2018

EFF Files Amicus Brief in Seventh Circuit Supporting Warrant for Border Searches of Electronic Devices

EFF, joined by ACLU, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit arguing that border agents need a probable cause warrant before searching personal electronic devices like cell phones and laptops. We filed our brief in a criminal case involving Donald Wanjiku, who...

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DEF CON: Disrupting the Digital Dystopia or What the hell is happening in computer law?

DEF CON: EFF Tech Trivia

BSides: Ask the EFF

Black Hat USA 2018: What's Going on in DC and What Does it Mean for InfoSec?

Black Hat USA 2018: 5 Things Security Researchers Need to Know About Computer Crime Law

Moving Your Site From "Not Secure" to Secure

Fair-Use Champion Stephanie Lenz, European Digital Rights Leader Joe McNamee, and Groundbreaking Content-Moderation Researcher Sarah T. Roberts Win EFF’s Pioneer Awards

Google Chrome Now Marks HTTP Sites "Not Secure"

Defending Users: Initial Ideas for Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Payment Processors, and Other Choke Points Within the Blockchain Ecosystem

Egypt Sentences Tourist to Eight Years Jail for Complaining about Vacation Online

California Should Provide Public Access to Police Body Cam Footage

CLASSICS Is the Future of Assaults Against the Public Domain

Facing Facebook: Data Portability and Interoperability Are Anti-Monopoly Medicine

California Supreme Court Strengthens Section 230 Protections for Online Speech

EFF Files Amicus Brief in Seventh Circuit Supporting Warrant for Border Searches of Electronic Devices

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