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Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney, Gennie Gebhart | October 11, 2018

New Witness Panel Tells Congress How to Protect Consumer Data Privacy

Yesterday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer data privacy was a welcome improvement. The last time the Committee convened around this topic, all of the witnesses were industry and corporate representatives. This time, we were happy to see witnesses from consumer advocacy groups and the European Union, who argued...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Gennie Gebhart | October 11, 2018

The Google+ Bug Is More About The Cover-Up Than The Crime

Earlier this week, Google dropped a bombshell: in March, the company discovered a “bug” in its Google+ API that allowed third-party apps to access private data from its millions of users. The company confirmed that at least 500,000 people were “potentially affected.” Google’s mishandling of data was bad...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene, Karen Gullo | October 10, 2018

When Police Misuse Their Power to Control News Coverage, They Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Use Probable Cause As a Shield Against Claims of First Amendment Violations

Journalists face increasingly hostile conditions covering public protests, presidential rallies, corruption, and police brutality in the course of work as watchdogs over government power. A case before the U.S. Supreme Court threatens press freedoms even further by potentially giving the government freer rein to arrest media people in...

Event | October 20, 2018

DigiSec Workshops Hosted by CyPurr

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: CyPurr Session: Library Privacy Week Extravaganza! The CyPurr Collective is celebrating Library Privacy Week the only way they know how: a day of cybersecurity mini-workshops! They are breaking from their...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | October 9, 2018

EU Internet Censorship Will Censor the Whole World's Internet

As the EU advances the new Copyright Directive towards becoming law in its 28 member-states, it's important to realise that the EU's plan will end up censoring the Internet for everyone, not just Europeans. A quick refresher: Under Article 13 of the new Copyright Directive, anyone who operates a...

Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | October 9, 2018

Chicago Should Reject a Proposal for Private-Sector Face Surveillance

A proposed amendment to the Chicago municipal code would allow businesses to use face surveillance systems that could invade biometric and location privacy, and violate a pioneering state privacy law adopted by Illinois a decade ago. EFF joined a letter with several allied privacy organizations explaining our concerns...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | October 7, 2018

What's Next For Europe's Internet Censorship Plan?

Last month, a key European vote brought the EU much closer to a system of universal mass censorship and surveillance, in the name of defending copyright. Members of the EU Parliament voted to advance the new Copyright Directive, even though it contained two extreme and unworkable clauses: Article 13...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams, Jeremy Gillula | October 5, 2018

Victory! Dangerous Elements Removed From California’s Bot-Labeling Bill

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed S.B. 1001, a new law requiring all “bots” used for purposes of influencing a commercial transaction or a vote in an election to be labeled. The bill, introduced by Senator Robert Hertzberg, originally included a provision that would have been abused as a...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | October 5, 2018

New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright

Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative announced a replacement deal for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nearly 25-year-old trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Amid the long list of tariff-free products and restriction-free cheese names [PDF] in the new trade deal, called simply...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | October 5, 2018

EFF To Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers With a Dangerous Fake Update

If you've ever bought an inkjet printer, you know just how much the manufacturers charge for ink (more than vintage Champagne!) and you may also know that you can avoid those sky-high prices by buying third-party inks, or refilled cartridges, or kits to refill your own cartridges. The...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Alexei Miagkov, Andrés Arrieta | October 4, 2018

Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking

With its latest update, Privacy Badger now fights “link tracking” in a number of Google products. Link tracking allows a company to follow you whenever you click on a link to leave its website. Earlier this year, EFF rolled out a Privacy Badger update targeting Facebook’s use of this...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin | October 4, 2018

There are Many Problems With Mobile Privacy but the Presidential Alert Isn’t One of Them

On Wednesday, most cell phones in the US received a jarring alert at the same time. This was a test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, also commonly known as the Presidential Alert. This is an unblockable nationwide alert system which is operated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (*not*...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | October 3, 2018

New York City Home-Sharing Ordinance Could Create Privacy Nightmare

Many cities across the country are struggling with issues surrounding short-term vacation rentals and how they affect the availability and price of housing for local residents. However, New York City’s latest ordinance aimed at regulating home-sharing platforms is an extraordinary governmental overreach with invasive privacy ramifications, and EFF...

Event | October 12, 2018

Hack Back Web Series Premiere

Written and directed by Messiah Rhodes, associate producer at VICE, Hack Back chronicles the lives of three people, living with pangs of alienation, loneliness, and the struggle found in a life filled with tenuous low wage employment. The series is designed to demystify digital security in a subliminal and fun...

Press Release | October 3, 2018

Briefing Thursday: EFF’s Eva Galperin and Lookout Discuss, Demo Cybersecurity Attacks On Democracy

Washington, D.C.—On Thursday, Oct. 4, at 2 pm, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will speak at a special session for congressional staffers and representatives about how malware and spyware targeted at mobile devices is being used against dissidents, activists, journalists, and others to disrupt democracy...

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New Witness Panel Tells Congress How to Protect Consumer Data Privacy

The Google+ Bug Is More About The Cover-Up Than The Crime

When Police Misuse Their Power to Control News Coverage, They Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Use Probable Cause As a Shield Against Claims of First Amendment Violations

DigiSec Workshops Hosted by CyPurr

EU Internet Censorship Will Censor the Whole World's Internet

Chicago Should Reject a Proposal for Private-Sector Face Surveillance

What's Next For Europe's Internet Censorship Plan?

Victory! Dangerous Elements Removed From California’s Bot-Labeling Bill

New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright

EFF To Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers With a Dangerous Fake Update

Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking

There are Many Problems With Mobile Privacy but the Presidential Alert Isn’t One of Them

New York City Home-Sharing Ordinance Could Create Privacy Nightmare

Hack Back Web Series Premiere

Briefing Thursday: EFF’s Eva Galperin and Lookout Discuss, Demo Cybersecurity Attacks On Democracy

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