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Deeplinks Blog by David Ruiz | July 17, 2018

Undermining Mobile Phone Users’ Privacy Won’t Make Us Safer

The Kelsey Smith Act Would Force Cell Providers to Turn Private User Data Over to Law Enforcement Tragedies often bring political proposals that would do more harm than help—undermining our right to secure communications, for example, or our right to gather online. It is in these moments we...

Press Release | July 17, 2018

Win for Public Right to Know: Court Vacates Injunction Against Publishing the Law

San Francisco – A federal appeals court today ruled that industry groups cannot control publication of binding laws and standards. This decision protects the work of Public.Resource.org (PRO), a nonprofit organization that works to improve access to government documents. PRO is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the law...

Press Release | July 17, 2018

Hearing Thursday: EFF Asks Court to Block Enforcement of FOSTA While Lawsuit Proceeds

Washington, D.C.—On Thursday, July 19, at 4 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge to put enforcement of FOSTA on hold during the pendency of its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal law. The hold is needed, in part, to allow plaintiff Woodhull Freedom Foundation...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | July 16, 2018

A Key Victory Against European Copyright Filters and Link Taxes - But What's Next?

Against all the odds, but with the support of nearly a million Europeans, MEPs voted earlier this month to reject the EU's proposed copyright reform—including controversial proposals to create a new "snippet" right for news publishers, and mandatory copyright filters for sites that published user uploaded content. The...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | July 16, 2018

FBI Wish List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos

We’ve long known that the FBI is heavily invested in developing face recognition technology as a key component in its criminal investigations. But new records, obtained by EFF through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, show that’s not the only biometric marker the agency has its...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | July 13, 2018

EFF to Japan: Reject Website Blocking

Website blocking to deal with alleged copyright infringement is like cutting off your hand to deal with a papercut. Sure, you don’t have a papercut anymore, but you’ve also lost a lot more than you’ve gained. The latest country to consider a website blocking proposal is Japan, and EFF has...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | July 13, 2018

EFF to Patent Office: Don't Make it Harder to Kill Bad Patents

It’s already much too difficult to invalidate bad patents—the kind that never should have been issued in the first place. Now, unfortunately, the Patent Office has proposed regulation changes that will make it even harder. That’s the wrong path to take. This week, EFF submitted comments [PDF] opposing the...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | July 13, 2018

Should Your Company Help ICE? “Know Your Customer” Standards for Evaluating Domestic Sales of Surveillance Equipment

Employees at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have raised public concerns about those companies assisting U.S. military, law enforcement, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) in deploying various kinds of surveillance technologies. These public calls from employees raise important questions: what steps should a company take...

Event | August 31, 2018

EFF at Dragon Con 2018

The Electronic Frontier Foundation returns to Dragon Con once again to participate in a series of panels about technology, civil liberties, activism, and pop culture. EFF Deputy Executive Director Kurt Opsahl, Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass, Grassroots Advocacy Organizer Nathan Sheard, and Staff Technologist Erica Portnoy will participate in...

Deeplinks Blog by Kurt Opsahl | July 12, 2018

EFF Responds to Vigilant Solutions’ Accusations About EFF ALPR Report

On Tuesday, we wrote a report about how the Irvine Company, a private real estate development company, has collected automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from patrons of several of its shopping centers, and is providing the collected data to Vigilant Solutions, a contractor notorious for its contracts with...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Malika Hunasikatti | July 12, 2018

Egypt's Draconian New Cybercrime Bill Will Only Increase Censorship

The hope that filled Egypt's Internet after the 2011 January 25 uprising has long since faded away. In recent years, the country's military government has instead created a digital dystopia, pushing once-thriving political and journalism communities into closed spaces or offline, blocking dozens of websites, and arresting a...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | July 12, 2018

Don’t Give the DHS Free Rein to Shoot Down Private Drones

When government agencies refuse to let the members of the public watch what they’re doing, drones can be a crucial journalistic tool. But now, some members of Congress want to give the federal government the power to destroy private drones it deems to be an undefined “threat.” Even worse, they’re...

Event | July 12, 2018

NYC Open Source Design Meetup

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: NYC Open Source Design Meetup Please join NYC Open Source Design on Thursday evening for a presentation and Q&A with Eli Heuer on the history and future of free software font...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | July 10, 2018

All Hands on Deck: Join EFF

It’s easy to feel adrift these days. The rising tide of social unrest and political extremism can be overwhelming, but on EFF’s 28th birthday our purpose has never been more clear. With the strength of our numbers, we can fight against the scourge of pervasive surveillance, government and corporate overreach...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | July 10, 2018

DNA Collection is Not the Answer to Reuniting Families Split Apart by Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Program

The Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” program of criminally prosecuting all undocumented adult immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border has had the disastrous result of separating as many as 3,000 children—many no older than toddlers—from their parents and family members. The federal government doesn’t appear to have kept track...

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Undermining Mobile Phone Users’ Privacy Won’t Make Us Safer

Win for Public Right to Know: Court Vacates Injunction Against Publishing the Law

Hearing Thursday: EFF Asks Court to Block Enforcement of FOSTA While Lawsuit Proceeds

A Key Victory Against European Copyright Filters and Link Taxes - But What's Next?

FBI Wish List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos

EFF to Japan: Reject Website Blocking

EFF to Patent Office: Don't Make it Harder to Kill Bad Patents

Should Your Company Help ICE? “Know Your Customer” Standards for Evaluating Domestic Sales of Surveillance Equipment

EFF at Dragon Con 2018

EFF Responds to Vigilant Solutions’ Accusations About EFF ALPR Report

Egypt's Draconian New Cybercrime Bill Will Only Increase Censorship

Don’t Give the DHS Free Rein to Shoot Down Private Drones

NYC Open Source Design Meetup

All Hands on Deck: Join EFF

DNA Collection is Not the Answer to Reuniting Families Split Apart by Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Program

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