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Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | August 29, 2018

Stupid Patent of the Month: A Newspaper on a Screen

One of the oldest challenges in journalism is deciding what goes on the front page. How big should the headline be? What articles merit front-page placement? When addressing these questions, publishers deal with a physical limit in the size of the page. Digital publishing faces a similar constraint: the storage...

Event | September 5, 2018

Protect the Protest: San Francisco Launch Panel

EFF civil liberties director David Greene will participate in a panel hosted by Greenpeace that includes speakers from Wikimedia, Rainforest Action Network, Techdirt, and more. A coalition of 20 civil liberties and environmental rights groups are launching a new effort to fight back against lawsuits aimed at stifling the...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | August 29, 2018

Appeals Court Asks the Right Questions in NSA Surveillance Case

On Monday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York held argument in United States v. Hasbajrami, an important case involving surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. It is only the second time a federal appeals court has been asked to rule on whether...

Event | September 2, 2018

Speakeasy: ATL

Join the EFF staff and local online rights supporters this Sunday, September 2 in Atlanta! Raise a glass with EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl, Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass, Grassroots Advocacy Organizer Nathan 'nash' Sheard, and Staff Technologist ...

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United States v. Hasbajrami

Agron Hasbajrami is a U.S. resident who was arrested at JFK airport in 2011 on his way to Pakistan and charged with providing material support to terrorists. Although the government used Section 702, its warrantless Internet surveillance authority, to build its case against Hasbajrami, it withheld this fact from his...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | August 28, 2018

When ISPs Tell Seniors Net Neutrality Laws Will Increase Their Bills, They’re Lying and Losing

The fight to secure net neutrality protections for Californians keeps showing how far ISPs and their surrogates will go to make a buck off of ending the free and open Internet. The latest maneuver is a flood of deceptive robocalls targeting seniors and stating that net neutrality will...

Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda | August 28, 2018

Back to School Essentials for Security

Going back to school? This is a perfect time for a digital security refresh to ensure the privacy of you and your friends is protected! It’s a good time to change your passwords. The best practice is to have passwords that are unique, long, and random. In order to keep...

Deeplinks Blog by Genevieve Southwick | August 27, 2018

Cheers to EFF's 11th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Winners!

The sharpest legal minds in the Bay Area gathered at GitHub to participate in EFF's 11th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night on June 28. Over 100 participants from technology law firms and Internet companies throughout the Bay Area attended, with 12 teams vying for the coveted Cyberlaw Quiz Cup. EFF's staff...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | August 27, 2018

Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break The Trust Tech Depends On

In the last few years, we’ve discovered just how much trust — whether we like it or not — we have all been obliged to place in modern technology. Third-party software, of unknown composition and security, runs on everything around us: from the phones we carry around, to the smart...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin | August 27, 2018

Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls

Sen. Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning disruptions to 911 emergency services caused by law enforcement’s use of cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays). In the letter, Sen. Wyden states that: Senior officials from the Harris...

Event | August 30, 2018

Habeas Data Panel Discussion @ UC Berkeley

EFF's grassroots advocacy coordinator, Camille Ochoa, will participate in this panel discussion hosted by UC Berkeley's Center for Technology, Society and Policy: Please join us for a panel discussion featuring award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar, whose new book, Habeas Data, explores how the explosive growth...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | August 24, 2018

If It Doesn't Have Paper Backups and Automatic Audits, It's Not an Election Security Bill

Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating an issue that’s critical to our democratic future: secure elections. Hacking attacks were used to try to undermine the 2016 U.S. election, and in recent years, elections in Latin America and Ukraine were also subject to cyber attacks. It only makes sense to...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | August 24, 2018

The Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public

There is room to debate what makes an invention patentable, but one thing should be uncontroversial: patentable inventions should actually be new. That’s what EFF and the R Street Institute told the Supreme Court this week in an amicus brief urging it to grant certiorari and reverse the Federal Circuit’s...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | August 23, 2018

Verizon's Throttling of Fire Fighters Could Go Unpunished Because the FCC Repealed the Open Internet Order

People are mad about the revelation that Verizon throttled the wireless service of the Santa Clara Fire Department in the middle of fighting a massive fire. In response, Verizon is making the very narrow claim that this wasn’t a clear violation of the 2015 Open Internet Order’s ban...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Nate Cardozo | August 23, 2018

Don’t Shoot Messenger

Update (September 28, 2018): Reuters reports that the court has denied the government's request to force Facebook to assist with the wiretap. Late last week, Reuters reported that Facebook is being asked to “break the encryption” in its Messenger application to assist the Justice Department in...

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Stupid Patent of the Month: A Newspaper on a Screen

Protect the Protest: San Francisco Launch Panel

Appeals Court Asks the Right Questions in NSA Surveillance Case

Speakeasy: ATL

United States v. Hasbajrami

When ISPs Tell Seniors Net Neutrality Laws Will Increase Their Bills, They’re Lying and Losing

Back to School Essentials for Security

Cheers to EFF's 11th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Winners!

Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break The Trust Tech Depends On

Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls

Habeas Data Panel Discussion @ UC Berkeley

If It Doesn't Have Paper Backups and Automatic Audits, It's Not an Election Security Bill

The Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public

Verizon's Throttling of Fire Fighters Could Go Unpunished Because the FCC Repealed the Open Internet Order

Don’t Shoot Messenger

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