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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 no es un crimen: Se filtró una captura de pantalla del caso Ola Bini y no es convincente.

Desde que EFF visitó Ecuador hace tres semanas, la investigación sobre el desarrollador de código abierto Ola Bini ha proseguido como lo describimos en ese entonces: con pocas pruebas de mala conducta, pero potencialmente amenazada por acciones políticas, fuera de los límites del debido proceso y de un...

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 has taken 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...

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 califica a los ISPs panameños en su primer informe ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos?

IPANDETEC, la principal ONG de derechos digitales de Panamá, ha publicado su primer informe “¿Quién defiende tus datos?” el cual arroja luz sobre las prácticas de privacidad de los principales ISP del país: Claro (América Móvil), Movistar (Telefónica), Digicel y Más Móvil (Operación conjunta entre Cable & Wireless Communications y...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | August 20, 2019

Court Rules That “Patent Troll” is Opinion, Not Defamation

Free speech in the patent world saw a big win on Friday, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that calling someone a “patent troll” doesn’t constitute defamation. The court’s opinion [PDF] is good news for critics of abusive patent litigation, and anyone who values robust public debate around...

Event | December 31, 1969

IFLA WLIC: Open Access from an Ethical and Legal Aspect

Join a panel of experts, including EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart, to discuss the state of open access at the International Federation of Library Associations' 2019 World Library and Information Congress. Libraries have the responsibility of providing democratic access to information for the benefit of all. The work...

Event | December 31, 1969

IFLA WLIC: Twenty Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement

Join a panel of experts, including EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart, to discuss trends in intellectual freedom and freedom of expression at the International Federation of Library Associations 2019 World Library and Information Congress. IFLA’s Intellectual Freedom statement was adopted 20 years ago this year, underlining the commitment...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Saira Hussain | August 19, 2019

EFF Calls on California to End Vendor-Driven ALPR Training

Update August 28, 2019: The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training has opened an investigation into the ALPR training program and will "take appropriate action," according to a letter responding to EFF's research. A single surveillance vendor has garnered a monopoly on training law enforcement in California...

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

Telnet no es un crimen: Se filtró una captura de pantalla del caso Ola Bini y no es convincente.

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 califica a los ISPs panameños en su primer informe ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos?

Court Rules That “Patent Troll” is Opinion, Not Defamation

IFLA WLIC: Open Access from an Ethical and Legal Aspect

IFLA WLIC: Twenty Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement

EFF Calls on California to End Vendor-Driven ALPR Training

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