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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | April 22, 2021

Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State

EFF has released Data Driven 2: California Dragnet, a new public records collection and data set that shines light on the massive amount of vehicle surveillance conducted by police in California using automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—and how very little of this surveillance is actually relevant to an active public...

Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock, Adam Schwartz, Hayley Tsukayama | April 22, 2021

No Digital Vaccine Bouncers

The U.S. is distributing more vaccines and the population is gradually becoming vaccinated. Returning to regular means of activity and movement has become the main focus for many Americans who want to travel or see family. An increasingly common proposal to get there is digital proof-of-vaccination,...

Press Release | April 21, 2021

EFF Sues Proctorio on Behalf of Student It Falsely Accused of Copyright Infringement to Get Critical Tweets Taken Down

Phoenix, Arizona—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit today against Proctorio Inc. on behalf of college student Erik Johnson, seeking a judgment that he didn’t infringe the company’s copyrights when he linked to excerpts of its software code in tweets criticizing the software maker.Proctorio, a developer of...

Event | April 29, 2021

Safety in the time of Surveillance: Ban the Scan Town Hall

Cryptoparty Ann Arbor, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Safety in the Time of Surveillance: Ban the Scan Town HallFrom the Organizers:Facial Recognition threatens to automate and expand state violence. Join the Ban the Scan A2 Coalition for an online...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | April 21, 2021

Fighting FLoC and Fighting Monopoly Are Fully Compatible

Are tech giants really damned if they do and damned if they don’t (protect our privacy)?That’s a damned good question that’s been occasioned by Google’s announcement that they’re killing the invasive, tracking third-party cookie (yay!) and replacing it with FLoC, an alternative tracking scheme that will...

Event | April 21, 2021

S.T.O.P. x RadTech: Incarceration & Information Surveillance

S.T.O.P.- a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:S.T.O.P. x RadTech: Incarceration & Information SurveillanceFrom the Organizers:In this session, S.T.O.P. will delve deeper into the rise of digital surveillance in U.S. prisons, often under the guise of information access. Jeanie Austin...

Deeplinks Blog by Sasha Mathew, Danny O'Brien | April 20, 2021

Indian Government's Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Outright Are A Bad Idea

While Turkey hit the headlines last week with a ban on paying for items with cryptocurrency, the government of India appears to be moving towards outlawing cryptocurrency completely. An unnamed senior government official told Reuters last month that a forthcoming bill this parliamentary session would include the...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | April 19, 2021

Senators Demand Answers on the Dangers of Predictive Policing

Predictive policing is dangerous and yet its use among law enforcement agencies is growing. Predictive policing advocates, and companies that make millions selling technology to police departments, like to say the technology is based on “data” and therefore it cannot be racially biased. But this technology will ...

Press Release | April 19, 2021

Video Hearings Tuesday and Wednesday: EFF Will Tell Copyright Office That Consumers Should Have the Freedom to Fix, Modify Digital Devices They Own

San Francisco—On Tuesday, April 20, and Wednesday, April 21, experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) fighting copyright abuse will testify at virtual hearings held by the Copyright Office in favor of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) so people who have purchased digital devices—from cameras and...

Event | April 19, 2021

Privacy Advisory Commissions

What is a privacy advisory commission? What types of privacy issues does it address? Who does it advise? How does it work? Should Portland have one?

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley, Bill Budington, Sophia Cope | April 15, 2021

Proctoring Tools and Dragnet Investigations Rob Students of Due Process

In March, Dartmouth’s Committee on Student Performance and Conduct (CSPC) accused several students of accessing restricted materials online during exams. These accusations were based on a flawed review of an entire year’s worth of the students’ log data from Canvas, the online learning platform that contains class lectures and information...

Event | May 14, 2021

EFF at PyCon 2021

EFF is excited to be a part of PyCon US 2021, put on by the Python Software Foundation! If you're interested in learning about the Python programming language, this is the event for you.You can also stop by and say hi to EFF! We'll be at one of the...

Press Release | April 15, 2021

EFF Partners with DuckDuckGo to Enhance Secure Browsing and Protect User Information on the Web

San Francisco, California—Boosting protection of Internet users’ personal data from snooping advertisers and third-party trackers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced it has enhanced its groundbreaking HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption.The partnership represents the next step in the...

Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock | April 14, 2021

HTTPS Everywhere Now Uses DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption

Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last few years and major browsers have made strides in seeing that HTTPS becomes the...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | April 14, 2021

Congress, Don’t Let ISP Lobbyists Sabotage Fiber for All

For the first time an American president has proposed a plan that wouldn’t just make a dent in the digital divide, it will end it. By deploying federal resources at the level and scale this country has not seen since electrification nearly 100 years ago, the U.S. will again connect...

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Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State

No Digital Vaccine Bouncers

EFF Sues Proctorio on Behalf of Student It Falsely Accused of Copyright Infringement to Get Critical Tweets Taken Down

Safety in the time of Surveillance: Ban the Scan Town Hall

Fighting FLoC and Fighting Monopoly Are Fully Compatible

S.T.O.P. x RadTech: Incarceration & Information Surveillance

Indian Government's Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Outright Are A Bad Idea

Senators Demand Answers on the Dangers of Predictive Policing

Video Hearings Tuesday and Wednesday: EFF Will Tell Copyright Office That Consumers Should Have the Freedom to Fix, Modify Digital Devices They Own

Privacy Advisory Commissions

Proctoring Tools and Dragnet Investigations Rob Students of Due Process

EFF at PyCon 2021

EFF Partners with DuckDuckGo to Enhance Secure Browsing and Protect User Information on the Web

HTTPS Everywhere Now Uses DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption

Congress, Don’t Let ISP Lobbyists Sabotage Fiber for All

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