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Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | December 12, 2018

The FCC Has Made the Same Mistake for Text Messaging That It Did for Net Neutrality

Almost exactly a year ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to strip net neutrality protections from the Internet and reclassify Internet Service Providers as an “information service” rather than a “common carrier” telecommunications one. This year, the FCC has voted to classify text messaging the same way...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | December 12, 2018

New FCC Data Indicates Future Broadband Access for Most Americans Will Be a Monopoly

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) produced its first Communications Marketplace Report, a biannual report recently required by Congress, to comprehensively assess the status of America’s communications and media market. And here’s the good news: if what you want is a choice of slow, outdated Internet, then the United States market...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, David Greene | December 12, 2018

EFF To U.S. Supreme Court: Rule Carefully In Free Speech Case About Private Operators, State Actors, and the First Amendment

Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter provide an opportunity for everyone to have a voice on the Internet, to communicate with friends, post their views, and comment on movies or the president. However, the fact that they provide a broad, open platform for speech doesn’t automatically mean they...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | December 11, 2018

Hardwood Floors, Natural Light and the Right to Choose Your ISP

Your landlord is prohibited from making deals that restrict you to a single video provider, and those prohibitions should apply to your broadband service as well. Yet, across the country, tenants remain locked into a single choice.

Event | December 14, 2018

Cato Institute Surveillance Conference

Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass will present a talk on EFF's first virtual reality project, Spot the Surveillance, at the Cato Surveillance Conference. You can watch live online, but if you're at the conference, you can also demo the project on an Oculus Go. Spot the Surveillance teaches...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | December 10, 2018

Four million Europeans' signatures opposing Article 13 have been delivered to the European Parliament

Lawmakers in the European Union (EU) often lament the lack of citizen engagement with the complex policy questions that they wrestle with in Strasbourg and Brussels, so we assume that they will be delighted to learn that more than 4,000,000 of their constituents have signed a petition opposing...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | December 10, 2018

Human Rights Groups to Sundar Pichai: Listen to Your Employees and Halt Project Dragonfly

EFF, as part of a coalition of over sixty other human rights groups led by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International —still have questions for Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO. Leaks and rumors continue to spread from Google about “Project Dragonfly,” a secretive plan to create a...

Event | December 31, 1969

Tech Skepticism and Worker Activism: Drawing Lessons for Research and Education

EFF Tech Projects Director Jeremy Gillula will be speaking on a panel reflecting on events and crises in the tech industry over the past year. From the event webpage: Speakers: Meredith Whittaker, AI Now Institute and Google; Matt Cagle, ACLU; Jeremy Gillula, Electronic Frontier Foundation Sponsor: Graduates for...

Press Release | December 10, 2018

Social Justice Organizations Challenge Retention of DNA Collected from Hundreds of Thousands of Innocent Californians

San Francisco - Two social justice organizations—the Center for Genetics and Society and the Equal Justice Society—and an individual plaintiff, Pete Shanks, have filed suit against the state of California for its collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted of any crime. The Electronic Frontier...

Legal Case

Center for Genetics and Society v. Becerra

Two social justice organizations—the Center for Genetics and Society and the Equal Justice Society—and an individual plaintiff, Pete Shanks, have filed suit against the state of California for its collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted of any crime. EFF and the Law Office of...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | December 7, 2018

TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

The Transportation Security Administration has set out an alarming vision of pervasive biometric surveillance at airports, which cuts against the right to privacy, the “right to travel,” and the right to anonymous association with others. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which included language...

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | December 7, 2018

Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation Policy is a Honeypot for Trolls

Facebook just quietly adopted a policy that could push thousands of innocent people off of the platform. The new “sexual solicitation” rules forbid pornography and other explicit sexual content (which was already functionally banned under a different statute), but they don’t stop there: they also ban...

Event | December 11, 2018

Spot the Surveillance: How EFF Is Using VR to Take on Big Brother

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Spot the Surveillance project is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities, including body cameras, license plate readers, and drones. EFF’s Laura Schatzkin and Dave Maass will discuss EFF’s work, the concepts...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | December 6, 2018

In the New Fight for Online Privacy and Security, Australia Falls: What Happens Next?

With indecent speed, and after the barest nod to debate, the Australian Parliament has now passed the Assistance and Access Act, unopposed and unamended. The bill is a cousin to the United Kingdom’s Investigatory Powers Act, passed in 2016. The two laws vary in their details, but both now...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Gennie Gebhart | December 6, 2018

New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

Another week, another set of reminders that, while Facebook likes to paint itself as an “optimistic” company that’s simply out to help users and connect the world, the reality is very different. This week, those reminders include a collection of newly released documents suggesting that the company adopted a host...

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The FCC Has Made the Same Mistake for Text Messaging That It Did for Net Neutrality

New FCC Data Indicates Future Broadband Access for Most Americans Will Be a Monopoly

EFF To U.S. Supreme Court: Rule Carefully In Free Speech Case About Private Operators, State Actors, and the First Amendment

Hardwood Floors, Natural Light and the Right to Choose Your ISP

Cato Institute Surveillance Conference

Four million Europeans' signatures opposing Article 13 have been delivered to the European Parliament

Human Rights Groups to Sundar Pichai: Listen to Your Employees and Halt Project Dragonfly

Tech Skepticism and Worker Activism: Drawing Lessons for Research and Education

Social Justice Organizations Challenge Retention of DNA Collected from Hundreds of Thousands of Innocent Californians

Center for Genetics and Society v. Becerra

TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation Policy is a Honeypot for Trolls

Spot the Surveillance: How EFF Is Using VR to Take on Big Brother

In the New Fight for Online Privacy and Security, Australia Falls: What Happens Next?

New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

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