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Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | October 24, 2019

In the Debate Over Online Speech and Security, Let’s Get to the Science

A debate is raging, in Congress and the media, over whether or not we need new regulations to try to shape how Internet platforms operate. Too often, however, the discussion is based on rhetoric and anecdote, rather than empirical research. The recently introduced National Commission on Online Platforms and Homeland...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | October 24, 2019

Patents Are About Sharing Information with the Public. Don’t Shroud Them in Secrecy.

Patents give their owners the power to stop people (and companies) from doing whatever the patent claims as an “invention” for twenty years. But that power doesn’t come for free: it’s a trade. In exchange for the right to sue others to stop using the invention, patent applicants have to...

Event | November 1, 2019

EFF at The Glass Room: Banning Face Recognition Technology

Banning Face Recognition Technology From the Organizers: This year, San Francisco became one of the first major U.S. cities to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other agencies. But what does the ban really mean for citizens of the Bay Area? How else is this...

Event | November 7, 2019

EFF Fall 2019 Bay Area Members' Speakeasy

Join us on November 7th in Oakland for our fall Speakeasy meet-up at Original Pattern Brewing! Raise a glass with EFF and discover our latest work defending your freedom online. This event is a free, all-ages, casual gathering to give you a chance to mingle with local EFF supporters and...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | October 24, 2019

Weakening Our System of Patent Challenges Will Hurt Consumers, Unions, and Health Care Providers

The Stronger Patents Act, S. 2082, won’t give us a stronger patent system—just the opposite, in fact. It is a deliberate attempt to dismantle one of the few effective forums for challenging wrongly-issued patents. The bill would put dramatic and unwarranted changes into effect that would make the U.S...

Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda | October 24, 2019

How We’re Making Certbot More Usable

The movement to encrypt the web has reached milestone after milestone in recent years as major platforms and small websites alike have made the shift from insecure HTTP to more secure HTTPS. Let’s Encrypt and EFF’s Certbot have changed the game here, making what...

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Certbot Usability Case Study: Making It Easier To Get HTTPS Certificates

When EFF launched the Certbot tool in 2016, our goal was to help website administrators secure their sites with HTTPS certificates. Since then, our technology and design teams have received feedback from users about their barriers to using Certbot, how they find it, what makes it useful, and what a...

Press Release | October 23, 2019

Hearing Thursday: EFF Urges Appeals Court to Curb Police Access to ALPR Databases

San Francisco – On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge the California Court of Appeal to reverse a lower court and hold that law enforcement use of data gathered from automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems is a search that requires a warrant. ALPRs are computer-controlled...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | October 23, 2019

San Diego’s Face Recognition Program and Collaboration with ICE Needs to Stop

Law enforcement officials across San Diego County, California have run more than 65,500 face recognition scans over the last three years, including thousands of queries by federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Marshals. According to records obtained by EFF, the Tactical...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | October 22, 2019

The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill

It’s Not Too Late: The Senate Can Still Stop the CASE Act The House of Representatives has just voted in favor of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) by 410-6 (with 16 members not voting), moving forward a bill that Congress has had no hearings and no...

Press Release | October 22, 2019

EFF and Partners Urge U.S. Lawmakers to Support New DoH Protocol for a More Secure Internet

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today called on Congress to support implementation of an Internet protocol that encrypts web traffic, a critical tool that will lead to dramatic improvements in user privacy and help impede the ability of governments to track and censor people.EFF, joined by Consumer Reports and...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, Mona Wang | October 22, 2019

Apple’s Split Brain: Building Levers for Improved Security or Content Censorship?

For many years, Chinese users of Apple devices have had a very different experience from non-Chinese users. Chinese users can’t type or see the Taiwanese flag emoji (which has even caused severe bugs in the past); iCloud backups and encryption keys for Chinese users are stored locally within...

Press Release | October 22, 2019

EFF to Amazon and Shaq: Stop Pushing Police Partnerships with Doorbell Camera Company

Chicago – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging Amazon, along with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, to cancel an event promoting Ring home-surveillance cameras at a police chiefs’ conference in Chicago later this month. EFF and many other civil liberties and privacy organizations are growing increasingly concerned about privacy-invasive partnerships...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Jason Kelley | October 21, 2019

EFF Challenges Ring Spokesperson Shaq Over Privacy Concerns

EFF is asking Ring spokesman Shaquille O’Neal to cancel his appearance at a party hosted by the company at the upcoming International Association of Chiefs of Police conference on October 27. Instead, we’re challenging Shaq to a one-on-one: not on the basketball court, but across the table, so we can...

Event | October 29, 2019

WISP Celebrates National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: EFF's Alexis Hancock to speak

Dropbox — Mission Bay 1800 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158 Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) and Dropbox are hosting an event to celebrate the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We will be featuring three amazing lightning round speakers who will cover this year's themes of "Own IT...

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In the Debate Over Online Speech and Security, Let’s Get to the Science

Patents Are About Sharing Information with the Public. Don’t Shroud Them in Secrecy.

EFF at The Glass Room: Banning Face Recognition Technology

EFF Fall 2019 Bay Area Members' Speakeasy

Weakening Our System of Patent Challenges Will Hurt Consumers, Unions, and Health Care Providers

How We’re Making Certbot More Usable

Certbot Usability Case Study: Making It Easier To Get HTTPS Certificates

Hearing Thursday: EFF Urges Appeals Court to Curb Police Access to ALPR Databases

San Diego’s Face Recognition Program and Collaboration with ICE Needs to Stop

The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill

EFF and Partners Urge U.S. Lawmakers to Support New DoH Protocol for a More Secure Internet

Apple’s Split Brain: Building Levers for Improved Security or Content Censorship?

EFF to Amazon and Shaq: Stop Pushing Police Partnerships with Doorbell Camera Company

EFF Challenges Ring Spokesperson Shaq Over Privacy Concerns

WISP Celebrates National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: EFF's Alexis Hancock to speak

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