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Event | April 18, 2019

EFF's Third Annual Tech Trivia Night

Join us for our third annual exploration of the fascinating, obscure, and trivial minutiae of digital security, online rights, and Internet culture. It’s the ultimate technology quiz crafted by EFF experts and hosted by our very own CyberTiger Cooper Quintin.Bring your friends (or make a few new ones)! We'll form...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | March 6, 2019

Tell Congress to Stand Up for Real Net Neutrality Protections

When the FCC announced its intention to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order, Americans spoke up. When the FCC ignored the fact that most Americans support net neutrality, Americans spoke up again, asking Congress to reverse the FCC’s decision. And the Senate listened. This fight continues in...

Event | March 23, 2019

Workshop: Personal Digital Security Basics with FuseFactory

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: With the never ending stream of bad news regarding the privacy and security of our digital lives it might seem like there is nothing that can be done to mitigate the risks. In reality, there...

Event | March 18, 2019

Portland TA3M Meetup for March

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: ** Note: This meeting will start at 7:00 PM, NOT at our usual time. Doors will be monitored for access until 7:20 PM. If you arrive later, please post a note to the meeting page...

Event | March 7, 2019

EFF Presents at Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission

EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass will speak to the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission on the risks posed by automated license plate readers (ALPRs), a mass surveillance technology that collects data on where people park and drive their cars. His presentation will be followed by discussions of the Oakland...

Deeplinks Blog by Sydney Li, Danny O'Brien | March 4, 2019

OpenAI’s Recent Announcement: What Went Wrong, and How It Could Be Better

Earlier this month, OpenAI revealed an impressive language model that can generate paragraphs of believable text. It declined to fully release their research “due to concerns about malicious applications of the technology.” OpenAI released a much smaller model and technical paper, but not the fully-trained model, training code, or...

Event | March 10, 2019

Cory Doctorow Talk by re:publica (SXSW)

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Event | March 9, 2019

Cory Doctorow at SXSW: Untold AI

Untold AI: Is Sci-Fi Telling Us the Right Stories? Speakers: Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Christopher Noessel (IBM), Malka Older (Author), and Rashida Richardson (AI Now Institute) How do depictions of Artificial Intelligence in popular science fiction affect how we think about real AI and its future? How has...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | March 4, 2019

Facebook Doubles Down On Misusing Your Phone Number

When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double down quite like this: By default, anyone can use the phone number that a user provides for two-factor authentication (2FA) to find that user’s profile...

Event | March 8, 2019

Fighting Misinformation and Defending the Open Web (SXSW)

EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York, joins Markus Beckedahl (Netzpolitik.org), Geraldine De Bastion (Global Innovation Gathering) and Yemisi Adegoke of the BBC in a panel discussion about misinformation and defending the open web.

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney, Gennie Gebhart | March 4, 2019

Congress Invites Industry Advocates to Hearings. Industry Talking Points Ensue.

In back-to-back hearings last week, the House and the Senate discussed what, if anything, Congress should do about online privacy. Sounds fine—until you see who they invited. Congress should be seeking out multiple, diverse perspectives. But last week, both chambers largely invited industry advocates, eager to...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 3, 2019

German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters, Which Inevitably Lead to Internet "Oligopoly"

German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive. The Directive will be voted on at the end of this month, and its Article 13 requires that online communities...

Event | March 20, 2019

EFF @ CRASH Space: Fighting Back Against DRM

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made it illegal to bypass digital locks or publish methods of doing so. Since then, digital rights management (DRM) technologies have begun to appear everywhere, from automobiles to home goods to medical devices. Today, modifying the software on your slow cooker might be...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, David Greene | March 1, 2019

With FOSTA Already Leading to Censorship, Plaintiffs Are Seeking Reinstatement Of Their Lawsuit Challenging the Law’s Constitutionality

Due to an editing error, a draft version of this article was published prematurely. Internet websites and forums are continuing to censor speech with adult content on their platforms to avoid running afoul of the new anti-sex trafficking law FOSTA. The measure’s vague, ambiguous language and stiff criminal and...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 1, 2019

Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State

Earlier this month, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of Xinjiang, China, offering a window into what a digital surveillance state looks like in the 21st century. Xinjiang is China’s largest province, and home to China’s Uighurs...

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EFF's Third Annual Tech Trivia Night

Tell Congress to Stand Up for Real Net Neutrality Protections

Workshop: Personal Digital Security Basics with FuseFactory

Portland TA3M Meetup for March

EFF Presents at Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission

OpenAI’s Recent Announcement: What Went Wrong, and How It Could Be Better

Cory Doctorow Talk by re:publica (SXSW)

Cory Doctorow at SXSW: Untold AI

Facebook Doubles Down On Misusing Your Phone Number

Fighting Misinformation and Defending the Open Web (SXSW)

Congress Invites Industry Advocates to Hearings. Industry Talking Points Ensue.

German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters, Which Inevitably Lead to Internet "Oligopoly"

EFF @ CRASH Space: Fighting Back Against DRM

With FOSTA Already Leading to Censorship, Plaintiffs Are Seeking Reinstatement Of Their Lawsuit Challenging the Law’s Constitutionality

Massive Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State

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