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Press Release | April 3, 2019

Victory for Users: WhatsApp Fixes Privacy Problem in Group Messaging

San Francisco - In a victory for users, WhatsApp has fixed a long-standing privacy problem in group messaging, where users could be added to a group without their permission. The issue was one of the targets of “Fix It Already!,” a campaign from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | April 3, 2019

FIXED: WhatsApp Rolls Out Group Privacy Settings

Today, we’re happy to see WhatsApp fixing the long-standing group messaging problem that we called on them to address: allowing users to decide who can add them to groups without their express consent. This puts users in a better position to control their WhatsApp chats and personal phone number...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | April 2, 2019

Your Fourth Amendment Rights Should Not be Limited by Terms of Service

Last week, we filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Wilson, a federal appellate case, in which we argued that email providers’ terms of service can’t limit your Fourth Amendment rights. This is the second brief we’ve filed in less than a year addressing this important...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Gennie Gebhart | April 1, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Speak for the Internet

This past weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the pages of the Washington Post to ask governments and regulators to play a more active role in policing the Internet, and to offer some ideas for how they should do so. As the New York Times noted, Zuckerberg’s...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | April 1, 2019

Faulty Court Ruling That Threatens to Gut Groundbreaking Privacy Statute CalECPA Must Be Reversed

EFF and the ACLU of Northern California urged a California appeals court last week to reverse a judge’s wrongheaded and dangerous ruling that threatens the critical privacy protections afforded by the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), the most robust digital privacy measure in the country.The law...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | March 29, 2019

Don’t Buy California’s Callous Attempt to Ignore People’s DNA Privacy Rights, EFF Tells Court

Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime, is not just an ominously overbroad practice by law enforcement—it’s an invasion of privacy that violates the state’s constitution. Last year EFF and our co-counsel Michael Risher filed a ...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | March 29, 2019

California’s Legislature Is Contemplating Abandoning Oversight Over Broadband Monopolies Just Like the FCC

At a time when we are fighting to keep the future of broadband access from reverting back towards a monopoly, it seems implausible that a legislator would suggest their state should follow the Federal Communications Commission’s lead to abandon oversight over a highly concentrated, uncompetitive market. But Assemblymember...

Event | April 4, 2019

Building digital resilience in Latin America

EFF will be at the Internet Freedom Festival participating on a panel called "Building digital resilience in Latin America." The panelists will discuss the current political climate in Latin America and the emerging digital threats to political and social activists in the region. The topics will be presented through cross-country...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley, Aaron Mackey | March 29, 2019

Don't Repeat FOSTA's Mistakes

Some of the most fruitful conversations we can have are about nuanced, sensitive, and political topics, and no matter who or where we are, the Internet has given us the space to do that. Across the world, an unrestricted Internet connection allows us to gather in online communities to talk...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | March 28, 2019

Court Denies EFF Effort to Obtain Classified Significant Surveillance Court Opinions

A federal court’s ruling earlier this week has blunted a key provision of the surveillance reform law that required the government to be more transparent about legal decisions made by the United States secret surveillance court. After Edward Snowden revealed the government’s ongoing mass collection of Americans’ telephone phone...

Press Release | March 27, 2019

Hearing Friday in Jewel NSA Spying Lawsuit: EFF Asks Court to Let Case Proceed to Determine Constitutionality of Mass Surveillance

Oakland, California—On Friday, March 29, at 9:00 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will tell a federal court that its clients should be allowed to proceed with their case challenging the constitutionality of NSA spying. The government’s latest attempts to prevent the court from evaluating the legality of surveilling millions...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 27, 2019

Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws

A bill is moving forward in the Texas Legislature that would make it easier to bring baseless lawsuits against Internet users in the state who review businesses, speak anonymously, or otherwise exercise their First Amendment rights. If you’re a Texan, we need you to contact your lawmakers and speak up...

Press Release | March 26, 2019

EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing an anonymous Reddit commenter who is facing an abusive copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Today, EFF filed a motion to quash the attempt by Watchtower to unmask the online...

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In Re DMCA Section 512(h) Subpoena to Reddit, Inc.

In this case, we are representing an anonymous Reddit commenter who is facing an abusive copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious organization. We have filed a motion to quash a subpoena Watch Tower has obtained and...

Event | April 3, 2019

Encrypting the Internet: Obstacles to TLS Deployment

Have you ever had problems with TLS? Like, you’re trying to view a web page but your browser is giving you a security warning instead? Or maybe you’ve been on the other end, invoking ancient shell scripts beyond your comprehension in a last-ditch attempt to renew your Let’s Encrypt certificate...

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Victory for Users: WhatsApp Fixes Privacy Problem in Group Messaging

FIXED: WhatsApp Rolls Out Group Privacy Settings

Your Fourth Amendment Rights Should Not be Limited by Terms of Service

Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Speak for the Internet

Faulty Court Ruling That Threatens to Gut Groundbreaking Privacy Statute CalECPA Must Be Reversed

Don’t Buy California’s Callous Attempt to Ignore People’s DNA Privacy Rights, EFF Tells Court

California’s Legislature Is Contemplating Abandoning Oversight Over Broadband Monopolies Just Like the FCC

Building digital resilience in Latin America

Don't Repeat FOSTA's Mistakes

Court Denies EFF Effort to Obtain Classified Significant Surveillance Court Opinions

Hearing Friday in Jewel NSA Spying Lawsuit: EFF Asks Court to Let Case Proceed to Determine Constitutionality of Mass Surveillance

Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws

EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous

In Re DMCA Section 512(h) Subpoena to Reddit, Inc.

Encrypting the Internet: Obstacles to TLS Deployment

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