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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | December 19, 2018

Before and After: What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA

As the year draws to a close, so has EFF’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency about the mass phone surveillance program infamously known as “Hemisphere.” We won our case and freed up tons of records. (So did the Electronic Privacy...

Press Release | December 19, 2018

Hearing Thursday: EFF Asks Court to Require FBI Disclosure of National Security Letter Recipients Who've Been Released From Gag Orders

San Francisco, California—On Thursday, December 20, at 10 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge to order the FBI to release the names of national security letter (NSLs) recipients that are no longer under a bureau gag order blocking them from speaking out.The hearing is...

Event | April 29, 2019

FITC Toronto 2019

EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow is a keynote speaker at FITC Toronto 2019: "The Technology & Creativity Conference." His keynote is entitled "The Internet Isn’t What We Fight FOR, It’s What We Fight WITH." Overview The world has problems that are much more urgent than internet...

Event | April 24, 2019

AltSecCon

EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow is a keynote speaker at Halifax's AltSecCon, "Atlantic Canada's Non-Profit, Annual Information Security Conference."

Event | March 29, 2019

Wondercon 2019: The Anaheim Comic-Con

EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow is a Special Guest at the 2019 WonderCon, the Anaheim Comic-Con, and will be on a variety of panels on issues related to his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Event | January 25, 2019

Grand Reopening of the Public Domain

EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow will give the closing keynote at "A Grand Reopening of the Public Domain," co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons to commemorate the first time in decades when new creative works such as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent film...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | December 18, 2018

Who Has Your Back in Colombia? La cuarta edición de ¿Dónde están mis datos? muestra progresos pero quiere seguir mejorando

La Fundación Karisma, la principal organización de derechos digitales de Colombia, acaba de lanzar su cuarto informe anual ¿Dónde Estan Mis Datos? en colaboración con EFF. Los resultados son aún más alentadores que los de 2017,con una mejora significativa en lo que respecta a la transparencia: cinco...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | December 17, 2018

EFF to Appellate Court: Protect Biometric Privacy

Big tech companies are surveilling your face for profit. Fortunately, Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) prohibits companies from harvesting and monetizing your biometrics, including a scan of your face measurements, without your informed opt-in consent. But now Facebook is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | December 14, 2018

The EFF Gift Guide: What’s Creeping Us Out

EFF doesn’t endorse products. But as Internet-connected products proliferate, ads for them bombard holiday shoppers with promises of a more streamlined life. And they do so without always divulging that they’re tracking you more than a jolly fat man who sees when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake. So...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | December 13, 2018

Facing Criticism from All Sides, EU’s Terrible Copyright Amendments Stumble into the New Year

Today, EU negotiators in Strasbourg struggled to craft the final language of the Copyright in the Single Digital Market Directive, in their last possible meeting for 2019. They failed, thanks in large part to the Directive’s two most controversial clauses: Article 11, which requires paid licenses for linking to news...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | December 13, 2018

Gigi Sohn, Renowned Public Advocate and Net Neutrality Pioneer, Joins EFF’s Board

EFF is honored to announced that Gigi Sohn, a leading public advocate for the concept that broadband Internet should be open, affordable, and competitive, has joined our board of directors. A lawyer and innovator who has both counseled and stood up to the Federal Communications Commission—albeit not always...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | December 13, 2018

Privacy Coalition to Congress: Don’t Dismantle Stronger State Data Privacy Laws

After years of claiming self-regulation would keep them in line, big tech companies spooked by new state data privacy safeguards are now calling for a national privacy law—one that would roll back these vital state protections. We are one of sixteen consumer privacy and civil rights groups to...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Alexis Hancock | December 13, 2018

How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web

Way back in 2010, we launched our popular browser extension HTTPS Everywhere as part of our effort to encrypt the web. At the time, the need for HTTPS Everywhere to protect browsing sessions was as obvious as the threats were ever-present. The threats may not be as clear now, but...

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...

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Before and After: What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA

Hearing Thursday: EFF Asks Court to Require FBI Disclosure of National Security Letter Recipients Who've Been Released From Gag Orders

FITC Toronto 2019

AltSecCon

Wondercon 2019: The Anaheim Comic-Con

Grand Reopening of the Public Domain

Who Has Your Back in Colombia? La cuarta edición de ¿Dónde están mis datos? muestra progresos pero quiere seguir mejorando

EFF to Appellate Court: Protect Biometric Privacy

The EFF Gift Guide: What’s Creeping Us Out

Facing Criticism from All Sides, EU’s Terrible Copyright Amendments Stumble into the New Year

Gigi Sohn, Renowned Public Advocate and Net Neutrality Pioneer, Joins EFF’s Board

Privacy Coalition to Congress: Don’t Dismantle Stronger State Data Privacy Laws

How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web

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

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