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Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | July 2, 2020

EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment

Should the police be able to force Google to turn over identifying information on every phone within a certain geographic area—potentially hundreds or thousands of devices—just because a crime occurred there? We don’t think so. As we argued in an amicus brief filed recently in People v. Dawes, a...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | July 2, 2020

The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech

The day before a committee debate and vote on the EARN IT Act, the bill’s sponsors replaced their bill with an amended version. Here’s their new idea: instead of giving a 19-person federal commission, dominated by law enforcement, the power to regulate the Internet, the bill now effectively gives...

Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock | July 2, 2020

Google's AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards

Have you ever clicked on a link after googling something, only to find that Google didn’t take you to the actual webpage but to some weird Google-fied version of it? Instead of the web address being the source of the article, it still says “google” in the address bar on...

Event | July 14, 2020

The History and Legislation of Surveillance Technology

EFF Austin , a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: The History and Legislation of Surveillance Technology From The Organizers: Our speaker this month is David Hensley. David is a paralegal, EFF-Austin board member, writer, independent researcher, and a philosophy, literature...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | July 2, 2020

Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies

Ring, Amazon’s “smart” doorbell camera company, recently began sharing statistics on how many video requests police departments submit to users, and the numbers are staggering. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, police requested videos over 5000 times, using their partnerships with the company to email users directly and ask...

Press Release | July 2, 2020

Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras

San Francisco – Research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows that hundreds of U.S. police departments with deadly histories have official partnerships with Amazon’s Ring—a home-surveillance company that makes it easy to send video footage to law enforcement. Ring sells networked cameras, often bundled with doorbells or lighting...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | July 1, 2020

"Don't Believe Proven Liars": The Absolute Minimum Standard of Prudence in Merger Scrutiny

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." -President George W Bush Anti-monopoly enforcement has seen a significant shift since the 1970s. Where...

Legal Case

Van Buren v. United States

A former Georgia police officer who was wrongly convicted under the notoriously vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") is asking the Supreme Court to reject a dangerously overbroad interpretation of the law. In Van Buren v. United States, Nathan Van Buren was accused of taking money in exchange for...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman, Kurt Opsahl | July 1, 2020

Wikileaks-Hosted "Most Wanted Leaks" Reflects the Transparency Priorities of Public Contributors

The government recently released a superseding indictment[1] against Wikileaks editor in chief Julian Assange, currently imprisoned and awaiting extradition in the United Kingdom. As we’ve written before, this prosecution poses a clear threat to journalism, and, whether or not Assange considers himself a journalist, the indictment ...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Saira Hussain | June 30, 2020

EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information

Special thanks to legal intern Rachel Sommers, who was the lead author of this post. Visa applicants to the United States are required to disclose personal information including their work, travel, and family histories. And as of May 2019, they are required to register their social media...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Karen Gullo | June 30, 2020

Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers

COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country. The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking” or “workplace analytics”...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | June 30, 2020

EFF Successfully Defends Users’ Right to Challenge Patents and Still Recover Legal Fees

When individuals and companies are wrongly accused of patent infringement, they should be encouraged to stand up and defend themselves. When they win, the public does too. While the patent owner loses revenue, the rest of society gets greater access to knowledge, product choice, and space for innovation. This is...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 30, 2020

Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act

This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is focused on giving unprecedented powers to law enforcement—including the ability to break into our private messages by creating encryption backdoors. TAKE ACTION STOP THE EARN IT...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Seth Schoen | June 29, 2020

5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights [UPDATED]

Update: On Tuesday night (6/30), the Brazilian Senate approved the “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. A final amendment cut back on article 7 “Account Registration” so that mandatory identification no longer applies to all users and is, in principle, optional in general. Under the revised text, companies...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 29, 2020

Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition

Cities and states across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, elected officials and activists rightfully know that face surveillance gives police the power to track us wherever we go, turns...

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EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment

The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech

Google's AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards

The History and Legislation of Surveillance Technology

Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies

Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras

"Don't Believe Proven Liars": The Absolute Minimum Standard of Prudence in Merger Scrutiny

Van Buren v. United States

Wikileaks-Hosted "Most Wanted Leaks" Reflects the Transparency Priorities of Public Contributors

EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information

Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers

EFF Successfully Defends Users’ Right to Challenge Patents and Still Recover Legal Fees

Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act

5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights [UPDATED]

Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition

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