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Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Jennifer Lynch | June 22, 2018

Victory! Supreme Court Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Cell Phone Tracking

The Supreme Court handed down a landmark opinion today in Carpenter v. United States, ruling 5-4 that the Fourth Amendment protects cell phone location information. In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court recognized that location information, collected by cell providers like Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, creates a...

Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | June 22, 2018

Illinois Declines to Adopt Proposed Arbitrary Drone Surveillance of Protests

Observers often forget that surveillance offends not only privacy, but also the right to dissent. A recently defeated Illinois bill illustrates how First and Fourth Amendment rights intersect, by proposing to undermine the right to dissent not obliquely, but rather directly. That’s why EFF joined the successful fight to...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | June 22, 2018

Journalists and Digital Security: Some Thoughts on the NYT Leak Case

The leak investigation involving a Senate staffer and a New York Times reporter raises significant issues about journalists, digital security, and the ability of journalists to protect confidential sources. The New York Times recently revealed that the FBI had been investigating a former aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | June 22, 2018

Supreme Court Opens Door to Worldwide Patent Damages

The Supreme Court issued a disappointing opinion [PDF] today holding that a company could recover patent damages for lost profits overseas. The court’s reasoning could make overseas damages available in many patent cases. This will disadvantage companies that do research and development in the United States. When patent law...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | June 22, 2018

Happy Birthday Alice: Four Years Busting Software Patents

This week marks the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. In Alice, the court ruled that an abstract idea does not become eligible for a patent simply by being implemented on a generic computer. Now that four years have passed, we know...

Deeplinks Blog by David Ruiz | June 21, 2018

Border Spy Tech Shouldn’t Be a Requirement for a Path to Citizenship

The Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (H.R. 6136), introduced before Congress last week, would offer immigrants a new path to citizenship in exchange for increased high tech government surveillance of citizens and immigrants alike. The bill calls for increased DNA and other biometric screening, updated automatic license plate...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | June 21, 2018

This Wednesday, an EU committee voted to break the Internet: this Sunday, Berliners take to the streets to say NO!

On Wednesday, the Legislative Committee of the European Union narrowly voted to keep the two most controversial internet censorship and surveillance proposals in European history in the upcoming revision to the Copyright Directive -- as soon as July Fourth, the whole European Parliament could vote to make this the law...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | June 20, 2018

Corruption at the Assembly Committee Gutted California's Net Neutrality

In the morning before S.B. 822 was to get its first hearing in front of a California Assembly committee before the cameras were on to catch it, the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Communications and Conveyance introduced and got a vote on amendments that substantially weakened the net neutrality...

Press Release | June 20, 2018

Victory: California Overhauls Police Database Oversight Procedures in Wake of EFF Investigations

San Francisco - Responding to years of investigations and pressure from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the California Attorney General's Office has overhauled and improved its oversight of law enforcement access to a computer network containing the sensitive personal data of millions of state residents, which police abused 143 times...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey | June 20, 2018

The California Attorney General’s Office Says It’s Finally Taking Database Abuse Seriously—But Time Will Tell

In 2017, 22 law enforcement employees across California lost or left their jobs after abusing the computer network that grants police access to criminal histories and drivers' records, according to new data compiled by the California Attorney General’s office. The records obtained by EFF show a total of 143 violations...

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California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System

The California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) is the computer network that connects public safety agencies across the state to criminal histories, driver records, and other databases. Since 2014, EFF has served as a watchdog for this system, drawing attention to open meetings violations, attempts to integrate face recognition technology...

Deeplinks Blog by Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Bill Budington | June 19, 2018

The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting: How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers

Browser fingerprinting is on a collision course with privacy regulations. For almost a decade, EFF has been raising awareness about this tracking technique with projects like Panopticlick. Compared to more well-known tracking “cookies,” browser fingerprinting is trickier for users and browser extensions to combat: websites can do it without...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | June 19, 2018

Chairman Santiago to Weaken California Net Neutrality for AT&T and Comcast

Senators Kevin de Leon and Wiener had recently joined forces to push their net neutrality bills through the Assembly Committee on Communications and Conveyance tomorrow as a joint package. Such a unified effort represented the most powerful way to move both S.B. 460 and S.B. 822 together to present...

Event | June 20, 2018

Cryptosocial Hosted by EFA Allies

Join EFA allies for an informal privacy discussion in Los Angeles. What: Cryptosocial at Crash Space This is a two hour event to hangout with other digital privacy- and security-minded folks from LA Cryptoparty, README @ UCLA, and CRASH...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | June 18, 2018

Volkswagen Claims Ownership of an Entire Group of Insects

Using word searches to find infringement is a bad way to go about things. It is likely why Volkswagen filed three takedown requests for art of beetles. Not Beetles with four wheels and headlights. Beetles with six legs and hard, shiny carapaces. For the record, Volkswagen holds no rights to...

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Victory! Supreme Court Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Cell Phone Tracking

Illinois Declines to Adopt Proposed Arbitrary Drone Surveillance of Protests

Journalists and Digital Security: Some Thoughts on the NYT Leak Case

Supreme Court Opens Door to Worldwide Patent Damages

Happy Birthday Alice: Four Years Busting Software Patents

Border Spy Tech Shouldn’t Be a Requirement for a Path to Citizenship

This Wednesday, an EU committee voted to break the Internet: this Sunday, Berliners take to the streets to say NO!

Corruption at the Assembly Committee Gutted California's Net Neutrality

Victory: California Overhauls Police Database Oversight Procedures in Wake of EFF Investigations

The California Attorney General’s Office Says It’s Finally Taking Database Abuse Seriously—But Time Will Tell

California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System

The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting: How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers

Chairman Santiago to Weaken California Net Neutrality for AT&T and Comcast

Cryptosocial Hosted by EFA Allies

Volkswagen Claims Ownership of an Entire Group of Insects

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