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Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | June 18, 2019

Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance

Massachusetts has a long history of standing up for liberty. Right now, it has the opportunity to become a national leader in fighting invasive government surveillance. Lawmakers need to hear from the people of Massachusetts to say they oppose government use of face surveillance. Face surveillance poses a threat to...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 18, 2019

The Lofgren-Amash Amendment Would Check Warrantless Surveillance

The NSA has used Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act to justify collecting and storing millions of Americans’ online communications. Now, the House of Representatives has a chance to pull the plug on funding for Section 702 unless the government agrees to limit the reach of that program...

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | June 17, 2019

Certbot's Website Gets a Refresh

Certbot has a brand new website! Today we’ve launched a major update that will help Certbot’s users get started even more quickly and easily. Certbot is a free, open source software tool for enabling HTTPS on manually-administered websites, by automatically deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Since we introduced it in...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | June 17, 2019

EFF's Recommendations for Consumer Data Privacy Laws

Strong privacy legislation in the United States is possible, necessary, and long overdue. EFF emphasizes the following concrete recommendations for proposed legislation regarding consumer data privacy. Three Top Priorities First, we outline three of our biggest priorities: avoiding federal preemption, ensuring consumers have a private right of action, and using...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 14, 2019

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Under the bipartisan Protecting Data at the Border Act, border officers would be required to get a warrant before searching a traveler’s electronic device. Last month, the bill was re-introduced into the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). It is co-sponsored by...

Press Release | June 12, 2019

Details of Justice Department Efforts To Break Encryption of Facebook Messenger Must Be Made Public, EFF Tells Court

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn asked a federal appeals court today to make public a ruling that reportedly forbade the Justice Department from forcing Facebook to break the encryption of a communications service for users.Media widely reported last fall that a...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 12, 2019

Experts Warn Congress: Proposed Changes to Patent Law Would Thwart Innovation

It should be clear now that messing around with Section 101 of the Patent Act is a bad idea. A Senate subcommittee has just finished hearing testimony about a bill that would wreak havoc on the patent system. Dozens of witnesses have testified, including EFF Staff Attorney Alex Moss...

Press Release | June 12, 2019

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

San Francisco and Tunis, Tunisia—While social media platforms are increasingly giving users the opportunity to appeal decisions to censor their posts, very few platforms comprehensively commit to notifying users that their content has been removed in the first place, raising questions about their accountability and transparency, the Electronic...

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Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

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Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, Jason Kelley | June 11, 2019

EFF to U.N.: Ola Bini's Case Highlights The Dangers of Vague Cybercrime Law

For decades, journalists, activists and lawyers who work on human rights issues around the world have been harassed, and even detained, by repressive and authoritarian regimes seeking to halt any assistance they provide to human rights defenders. Digital communication technology and privacy-protective tools like end-to-end encryption have made this work...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 11, 2019

How LBS Innovations Keeps Trying to Monopolize Online Maps

Stupid Patent of the Month For years, the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) has been a magnet for lawsuits filed by patent trolls—companies who make money with patent threats, rather than selling products or services. Technology companies large and small were sued in EDTX every week. We’ve written about how...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | June 11, 2019

EFF’s Newest Advisory Board Member: Michael R. Nelson

EFF is proud to announce our newest member of our already star-studded advisory board: Michael R. Nelson. Michael has worked on Internet-related global public policy issues for more than 30 years, including working on technology policy in the U.S. Senate and the Clinton White House. Michael’s broad expertise in...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard, Dave Maass | June 10, 2019

California: No Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras

EFF has joined a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties organizations to support a California bill that would prohibit law enforcement from applying face recognition and other biometric surveillance technologies to footage collected by body-worn cameras. About five years ago, body cameras began to flood into police and sheriff...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams | June 10, 2019

Five California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill

If you rely on shared biked or scooters, your location privacy is at risk. Cities across the United States are currently pushing companies that operate shared mobility services like Jump, Lime, and Bird to share individual trip data for any and all trips taken within their boundaries, including where and...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | June 10, 2019

EFF and Open Rights Group Defend the Right to Publish Open Source Software to the UK Government

EFF and Open Rights Group today submitted formal comments to the British Treasury, urging restraint in applying anti-money-laundering regulations to the publication of open-source software. The UK government sought public feedback on proposals to update its financial regulations pertaining to money laundering and terrorism in alignment with a larger European...

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Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance

The Lofgren-Amash Amendment Would Check Warrantless Surveillance

Certbot's Website Gets a Refresh

EFF's Recommendations for Consumer Data Privacy Laws

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

Details of Justice Department Efforts To Break Encryption of Facebook Messenger Must Be Made Public, EFF Tells Court

Experts Warn Congress: Proposed Changes to Patent Law Would Thwart Innovation

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

EFF to U.N.: Ola Bini's Case Highlights The Dangers of Vague Cybercrime Law

How LBS Innovations Keeps Trying to Monopolize Online Maps

EFF’s Newest Advisory Board Member: Michael R. Nelson

California: No Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras

Five California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill

EFF and Open Rights Group Defend the Right to Publish Open Source Software to the UK Government

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