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Press Release | August 28, 2019

EFF and Mozilla to Venmo: Clean Up Your Privacy Settings

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Mozilla have teamed up in an open letter to Venmo, telling the popular payment app to clean up its privacy settings, which leaves sensitive financial data exposed to the public. Venmo is marketed as a way for friends to send...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | August 27, 2019

California Has No Broadband Plan for the Future While The World Marches Ahead

The world’s largest economies are aggressively modernizing their Internet infrastructure with universal fiber to-the-home plans or have already achieved that metric—with the exception of the United States. EFF noted that there is a desperate need for a federal “Fiber for All” plan that tackles this national problem. But the...

Press Release | August 27, 2019

EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies today to obtain information about the agencies’ warrantless use of global positioning system (GPS) devices to track vehicles entering the U.S.In 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a landmark decision...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn, Andrew Crocker | August 27, 2019

U.S. Export Controls and “Published” Encryption Source Code Explained

Throughout our long history of defending encryption, EFF has taken a special interest in ensuring that researchers and programmers who help build and strengthen digital security are not prevented from sharing their knowledge. Because of this history, we periodically get requests about the status of U.S. export controls and how...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | August 26, 2019

There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service

Every so often, a rash of identical posts starts to take over social media. This isn’t the work of bots, but the result of a number of people believing that these words will have an effect on the terms of service of Facebook, or, in this most recent case, Instagram...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | August 23, 2019

Telnet Is Not A Crime: Unconvincing Prosecution Screenshot Leaked in Ola Bini Case

Since EFF visited Ecuador three weeks ago, the investigation into open source developer Ola Bini has proceeded as we described then: drawn out, with little evidence of wrong-doing, but potentially compromised by acts of political theater outside the bounds of due process and a fair trial. Last week —...

Event | August 31, 2019

DragonCon: Speakeasy ATL

Join the EFF staff and local online rights supporters this Saturday, August 31 in Atlanta! Raise a glass with EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl, Staff Technologist Erica Portnoy, and Legislative Activist Hayley Tsukayama while discovering our latest work defending your freedom online. The...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | August 22, 2019

Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a new ruling in U.S. v. Cano [.pdf] that offers greater privacy protection for people crossing the border with their electronic devices, but it doesn’t go as far as we sought in our amicus brief. Cano had attempted...

Deeplinks Blog by Sydney Li | August 22, 2019

Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

Yesterday, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari browsers started blocking a security certificate previously used by Kazakh ISPs to compromise their users’ security and perform dragnet surveillance. We encourage other browsers to take similar security measures. Since the fix has been implemented upstream in ...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | August 21, 2019

YouTube's New Lawsuit Shows Just How Far Copyright Trolls Have to Go Before They're Stopped

YouTube took a stand against a particularly pernicious copyright troll who was not only abusing the takedown system to remove content but was also using it in an extortion scam. While this gives the weight—and resources—of a large corporation in a fight that will benefit users, it also serves as...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss, Mitch Stoltz | August 21, 2019

The DOJ Should Keep Its Historic Role Guarding Competition and Innovation in the Music Business

If you want to play music as part of your business, either live or recorded, chances are you are going to have to pay the two big performing rights organizations. The American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) license the rights to a lot of...

Deeplinks Blog by Haley Pedersen | August 21, 2019

Communities Across the Country Reject Automated License Plate Readers

Recent months have seen a wave of cities and counties around the country rejecting the use of automated license plate readers in their communities, citing privacy concerns posed by the technology. Added to recent local level victories barring the use of face recognition technologies, it is encouraging...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | August 20, 2019

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

Ever since mid-2017, Apple has been tackling web tracking in a big way. Various iterations of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) technology have been introduced over the past few years in WebKit, the browser engine for Safari. ITP already protects users from tracking in various ways, but it left...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | August 20, 2019

Don't Renew Section 215 Indefinitely

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration wants Section 215, the legal authority that allows the National Security Agency to collect Americans’ telephone records, renewed indefinitely. That’s despite earlier reports the NSA had shuttered its Call Details Record (CDR) Program because it ran afoul of...

Deeplinks Blog by Ben Ballard, Katitza Rodriguez | August 20, 2019

IPANDETEC Rates Panama’s ISPs in its First ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? Report

It's Panama’s turn to take a closer look at the practices of its most prominent Internet Service Providers, and how their policies support their users’ privacy. IPANDETEC, the leading digital rights NGO in Panama, has launched its first "Who Defends Your Data" (¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos?) report. The survey shines...

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EFF and Mozilla to Venmo: Clean Up Your Privacy Settings

California Has No Broadband Plan for the Future While The World Marches Ahead

EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles

U.S. Export Controls and “Published” Encryption Source Code Explained

There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service

Telnet Is Not A Crime: Unconvincing Prosecution Screenshot Leaked in Ola Bini Case

DragonCon: Speakeasy ATL

Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

YouTube's New Lawsuit Shows Just How Far Copyright Trolls Have to Go Before They're Stopped

The DOJ Should Keep Its Historic Role Guarding Competition and Innovation in the Music Business

Communities Across the Country Reject Automated License Plate Readers

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

Don't Renew Section 215 Indefinitely

IPANDETEC Rates Panama’s ISPs in its First ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? Report

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