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Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | November 22, 2019

Three Political Ad Policies and No Good Answers

Observations of election manipulation on social media, and fears about how it could get worse in future elections, are prompting several platforms to take action. Twitter’s new political ads policy goes into effect today, just days after Google announced changes to its own ads policy and...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | November 20, 2019

Victory: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a forceful opinion today holding that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects individuals from being forced to disclose the passcode to their devices to the police. In a 4-3 decision in Commonwealth v. Davis, the court found that disclosing a password is...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | November 20, 2019

Five Senators Join the Fight to Learn Just How Bad Ring Really Is

Amid months of damaging investigative reporting and pressure by advocacy groups like EFF, senators are finally joining the fight to learn just how invasive and harmful Amazon’s Ring cameras are to the privacy of people in their vicinity. In September, after it had been revealed that over 400 police...

Deeplinks Blog by Michael Barclay, Katharine Trendacosta | November 20, 2019

Finally, the Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Federal Circuit’s Dangerous Decisions in Oracle v. Google

Good news! The U.S. Supreme Court has finally agreed to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decisions in the long-running case of Oracle v. Google. The Supreme Court now has an opportunity to reverse the damage done by the Federal Circuit. The Court can explain why copyrighting Application Programming...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Matthew Guariglia | November 20, 2019

The Intelligence Community Took Months to Respond to a Key Question About Section 215, And It Still Doesn’t Have Any “Legal Conclusion”

Even with the looming expiration of Section 215 and other key provisions of the Patriot Act, it took the Intelligence Community almost four months to respond to a letter written by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) seeking clarification on how the Intelligence Community interprets the landmark Supreme Court decision in...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | November 19, 2019

House Lawmakers Extend Section 215 into Next Year Even Though They Had Years to Stop Illegal Overcollection of Americans’ Sensitive Data

With federal agencies set to run out of money this week, House lawmakers today passed a short-term funding bill that contained a nasty surprise. Tucked into the end of this must-pass legislation, in a section titled “Other Matters,” is language reauthorizing three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities currently...

Press Release | November 19, 2019

EFF, Antivirus Companies, and Human Rights Groups Launch Coalition to Combat Stalkerware

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Kaspersky, Operation Safe Escape and seven other organizations today launched the Coalition Against Stalkerware to unite and mobilize security software companies and advocates for domestic abuse victims in actions to combat and shut down malicious stalkerware apps.Stalkerware, a type of commercially-available surveillance software...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Seth Schoen | November 19, 2019

The Council of Europe Shouldn’t Throw Out Our Privacy Rights Just to Speed Up Police Access

Foreign police often want to investigate a crime by gathering potential evidence from Internet companies located in another country. What if police in Poland want to get a user’s data from an ISP in Germany, Philippines, Japan—or vice versa? Can they do this? Under what rules, and with what kind...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | November 18, 2019

The FCC Is About to Raise Billions. Congress Should Invest it in Fiber Infrastructure

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced his plans to begin freeing up valuable airwaves within the C-Band, a part of the spectrum—the radio frequencies that our cell carriers, television stations, and others use to transmit services—historically used for satellite television. Once freed, the spectrum would be auctioned and used...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz, Saira Hussain | November 15, 2019

Federal Judge Issues Historic Opinion for Digital Privacy at the Border

In a historic opinion on privacy at the border, a federal judge this week recognized that international travelers have significant privacy interests in their digital data and ruled that suspicionless electronic device searches at U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in...

Deeplinks Blog by Cara Gagliano | November 15, 2019

EFF to Court: Don’t Let Private Organizations Control Access to the Law

Public.Resource.Org has one simple mission: to improve public access to government documents, including our laws. Public Resource believes—and EFF agrees—that everyone should be able to read, analyze, and share the laws that govern us, without having to pay a gatekeeper or sign a contract. Sounds uncontroversial, right? Not for...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | November 15, 2019

Submit Your FOIA Horror Stories for The Foilies 2020

Calling all transparency advocates, investigative journalists, and assorted FOIA punks! It’s once again time to submit your nominations for The Foilies—EFF’s annual, tongue-in-cheek awards for outrageous, ridiculous, and infuriating responses to public records requests. Each year during Sunshine Week (March 15-21, 2020), EFF publishes The Foilies to shine light...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | November 13, 2019

alt.interoperability.adversarial

Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of "network effects." For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook, you can't be convinced to use another, superior service, because all the people you'd use that service to talk...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | November 12, 2019

Alice Doesn’t Block Good Patents, It Protects the Public By Requiring Real Invention

Leaders of the Senate IP Subcommittee have been working, for nearly a year now, on producing some kind of legislation to weaken Section 101 of the Patent Act. Their proposal would throw out all the case law based on Section 101, including the Alice decision, which has been especially critical...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | November 12, 2019

Equifax Data Breach Update: Backsliding

After Equifax’s calamitous 2017 data breach, its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the private attorneys representing victims appears to offer two potential remedies to all 147 million American consumers affected: free credit monitoring, or if individuals already had free credit monitoring, an up to $125 cash...

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Three Political Ad Policies and No Good Answers

Victory: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password

Five Senators Join the Fight to Learn Just How Bad Ring Really Is

Finally, the Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Federal Circuit’s Dangerous Decisions in Oracle v. Google

The Intelligence Community Took Months to Respond to a Key Question About Section 215, And It Still Doesn’t Have Any “Legal Conclusion”

House Lawmakers Extend Section 215 into Next Year Even Though They Had Years to Stop Illegal Overcollection of Americans’ Sensitive Data

EFF, Antivirus Companies, and Human Rights Groups Launch Coalition to Combat Stalkerware

The Council of Europe Shouldn’t Throw Out Our Privacy Rights Just to Speed Up Police Access

The FCC Is About to Raise Billions. Congress Should Invest it in Fiber Infrastructure

Federal Judge Issues Historic Opinion for Digital Privacy at the Border

EFF to Court: Don’t Let Private Organizations Control Access to the Law

Submit Your FOIA Horror Stories for The Foilies 2020

alt.interoperability.adversarial

Alice Doesn’t Block Good Patents, It Protects the Public By Requiring Real Invention

Equifax Data Breach Update: Backsliding

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