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Event | March 17, 2021

MozFest: Did AI Do That? Mitigating the potential risks to user expression online

This highly interactive session will focus on what we can do, from a content governance perspective, to mitigate the risks AI and ML technologies may pose to user expression online. The workshop will have 4 discussion leads: Anima Anandkumar (NVDIA) , Thiago Oliva (OSB Policy), Nic Suzor (QUT, Oversight Board...

Event | March 18, 2021

Know Your Rights: Digital Privacy Rights

S.T.O.P.- a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Know Your Rights: Digital Privacy RightsFrom the Organizers:Justice Initiatives at Brooklyn Public Library is partnering with community organizations and agencies to produce a series of Know Your Rights workshops. This event...

Event | March 20, 2021

EFF at LibrePlanet 2021

EFF is happy to be a part of this year's online LibrePlanet, hosted by the Free Software Foundation, with the theme of empowering users. Registration is free and we will be at the virtual exhibitor hall, so stop by and give us a virtual hello! Be sure to catch...

Event | March 15, 2021

MozFest 2021: Digital Activism and Surveillance in Times of Pandemic

S.T.O.P.- a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Digital Activism and Surveillance in Times of PandemicFrom the Organizers :This discussion session is a part of MozFest 2021.In this discussion session, participants will explore how COVID-19 contact tracing technologies may...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | March 11, 2021

Congress Proposes Bold Plan to End the Digital Divide

New year, new Congress, but the problems of Internet access remains. If anything, the longer the COVID-19 crisis continues, the stronger the case for fast, affordable, Internet for all becomes. And so, an updated version of the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act has been introduced. It remains a bold...

Event | March 15, 2021

Panel Discussion on Surveillance Ordinances

Portland TA3M , a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Panel Discussion on Surveillance OrdinancesFrom the Organizers:There are a plethora of technologies available to law enforcement to monitor and track residents. Which of these technologies are currently being used in Portland,...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers | March 10, 2021

App Stores Have Kicked Out Some Location Data Brokers. Good, Now Kick Them All Out.

Last fall, reports revealed the location data broker X-Mode’s ties to several U.S. defense contractors. Shortly after, both Apple and Google banned the X-Mode SDK from their app stores, essentially shutting off X-Mode’s pipeline of location data. In February, Google kicked another location data broker, Predicio, from...

Press Release | March 10, 2021

EFF to Supreme Court: Users Must Be Able to Hold Tech Companies Accountable in Lawsuits When Their Data is Mishandled

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court to rule that consumers can take big tech companies like Facebook and Google to court, including in class action lawsuits, to hold them accountable for privacy and other user data-related violations, regardless of whether they can show they suffered...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | March 10, 2021

Internet Advocates Call on ISPs to Commit to Basic User Privacy Protections

This blog post was co-written by EFF, the Internet Society, and Mozilla.As people have learned more about how companies like Google and Facebook track them online they are increasingly taking steps to protect themselves, but there is one relatively unknown way that companies and bad actors can collect...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | March 9, 2021

EFF to Supreme Court: States Face High Burden to Justify Forcing Groups to Turn Over Donor Names

Throughout our nation’s history—most potently since the era of civil rights activism—those participating in social movements challenging the status quo have enjoyed First Amendment protections to freely associate with others in advocating for causes they believe in. This right is directly tied to our ability to maintain privacy over what...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 9, 2021

Scholars Under Surveillance: How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students

It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement.

Event | March 16, 2021

SXSW: The Perils of De-Platforming

When Twitter made the decision to de-platform Donald Trump, it was, according to Twitter, to mitigate “the risk of further incitement of violence.” Since then, a wide range of technology companies and platforms have restricted or removed speakers they’ve deemed dangerous. The practice is praised by some, criticized by others...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathaniel Sobel, Jennifer Lynch, Andrew Crocker | March 8, 2021

EFF, ACLU and EPIC File Amicus Brief Challenging Warrantless Cell Phone Search, Retention, and Subsequent Search

Last week, EFF—along with the ACLU and EPIC—filed an amicus brief in the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging a series of warrantless digital searches and seizures by state law enforcement officers: the search of a person’s entire cell phone, the retention of a copy of the data on the phone,...

Deeplinks Blog by Chao Liu | March 8, 2021

Washington: Everyone Deserves Reliable Internet

The coronavirus pandemic, its related stay-at-home orders, and its economic and social impacts have illustrated how important robust broadband service is to everything from home-based work to education. Yet, even now, many communities across America have been unable to meet their residents’ telecommunication needs. This is because of two problems:...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 8, 2021

The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into

Federal law enforcement has been asking for a backdoor to read Americans’ encrypted communications for years now. FBI Director Christopher Wray did it again last week in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. As usual, the FBI’s complaints involved end-to-end encryption employed by popular messaging platforms, as well...

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MozFest: Did AI Do That? Mitigating the potential risks to user expression online

Know Your Rights: Digital Privacy Rights

EFF at LibrePlanet 2021

MozFest 2021: Digital Activism and Surveillance in Times of Pandemic

Congress Proposes Bold Plan to End the Digital Divide

Panel Discussion on Surveillance Ordinances

App Stores Have Kicked Out Some Location Data Brokers. Good, Now Kick Them All Out.

EFF to Supreme Court: Users Must Be Able to Hold Tech Companies Accountable in Lawsuits When Their Data is Mishandled

Internet Advocates Call on ISPs to Commit to Basic User Privacy Protections

EFF to Supreme Court: States Face High Burden to Justify Forcing Groups to Turn Over Donor Names

Scholars Under Surveillance: How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students

SXSW: The Perils of De-Platforming

EFF, ACLU and EPIC File Amicus Brief Challenging Warrantless Cell Phone Search, Retention, and Subsequent Search

Washington: Everyone Deserves Reliable Internet

The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into

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