EFF-Austin, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:CyberlawFrom the Organizers:Our speaker this month is Ed Cavazos. Ed Cavazos is a technology attorney and the managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman’s Austin office. His practice focuses on intellectual property...
California has shown itself to be a national privacy leader. But there is still work to do. That’s why EFF is proud to sponsor twobills in this year’s legislature—both with the co-sponsorship of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse—that would strengthen privacy protections in the state. These bills are focused...
SAN FRANCISCO—As part of its ongoing work to ensure that people can know and understand the laws they live under, Public.Resource.org, a nonprofit organization, on Thursday vindicated its ability to publicly post important laws online in standard formats, free of copy protections and cumbersome user interfaces.The win for Public...
EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow will speak at the UK Competition and Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference:The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is hosting its first conference on new and evolving challenges in the tech industry and digital markets, and how competition and consumer agencies are developing...
We’ve got an amazing opportunity for a litigator to join EFF’s legal team. If you have experience and interest in patent policy or litigation and want to represent the public interest in patent and copyright policy, we want to hear from you. EFF has always stood up for the...
Las principales empresas de Internet y telefonía móvil de Colombia siguieron manteniendo un alto nivel de transparencia sobre sus prácticas de privacidad, y continuaron implementando las mejores prácticas para proteger los datos de los clientes, la libre expresión y la seguridad en 2021. Sin embargo, se enfrentaron a los desafíos...
Want the latest news on your digital rights? Well, you're in luck! Version 34, issue 2 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening to the new audio version below. This issue covers stories from our opposition of...
EFF's Cindy Cohn will speak at ACI’s 12th Global Encryption, Cloud & Cyber Export Controls Forum. She will be joined by Roszel C. Thomsen II, partner at Thomsen and Burke LLP. They will discuss Human Rights Due Diligence and Surveillance and Risk Mitigation Considerations: Five Eyes, Entity List Additions, State...
Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” may not be hardwired for security. Window Snyder, computer security expert and author, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they delve into the scary...
When a pipeline bursts, journalists might want to investigate whether the pipeline complied with federal regulations. When a toy is recalled, parents want to know whether its maker followed child safety rules. When a fire breaks out, homeowners and communities want to know whether the building complied with fire safety...
Ser capaz de determinar con precisión tu ubicación en cualquier lugar del planeta es un truco tecnológico útil. Pero cuando el rastreo no lo haces tú, sino que te lo hacen a ti -sin tu conocimiento o consentimiento- es una violación de tu privacidad. Por eso en la EFF llevamos...
La EFF está demandando al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional pidiendo transparencia en su programa de vigilancia de las redes sociales dirigido a los solicitantes de visado.
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records about a multi-million dollar, secretive program that surveils immigrants and other foreign visitors’ speech on social media.DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the Visa...
Primero llegaron los dispositivos de rastreo como Tiles y AirTags, comercializados como ingeniosos artilugios con Bluetooth del tamaño de un botón que pueden encontrar tu mochila perdida. Luego, después de que malos actores empezaran a utilizar los dispositivos para acechar o seguir a la gente, llegaron las aplicaciones de escaneo...
EFF client Erik Johnson, a Miami University computer engineering undergraduate, reached a settlement in the lawsuit we brought on his behalf against exam surveillance software maker Proctorio, in a victory for fair use of copyrighted material and people’s right to fight back against bad faith Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)...
