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Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers | July 17, 2019

Sharpening Our Claws: Teaching Privacy Badger to Fight More Third-Party Trackers

The latest release of Privacy Badger gives it the power to detect and block a new class of evasive, pervasive third-party trackers, including Google Analytics. Most blocking tools, like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and Firefox’s native blocking mode (using Disconect’s block lists), use human-curated lists to decide whether to block or...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | July 17, 2019

House Judiciary Committee Continues Its Antitrust Inquiry Into the Internet Marketplace

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust held its second hearing on whether our antitrust laws and their enforcement are keeping up with the Internet marketplace. Notably, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple were present as witnesses along with a range of experts to follow, giving Congress a lot to...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | July 16, 2019

The Design Behind EFF's New Membership Shirt

At EFF, a lot of the imagery we produce has a dystopian flavor — and with good reason. We are currently fighting battles against increased use of facial recognition tech, IMSI-catchers, and...

Press Release | July 16, 2019

Hearing Thursday: EFF, ACLU Will Ask Court to Rule In Favor of Travelers Suing DHS Over Unconstitutional, Warrantless Searches of Cellphones, Laptops

Boston, Massachusetts—On Thursday, July 18, at 3:00 p.m., lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU will ask a federal judge to decide that the constitutional rights of 11 travelers were violated by the suspicionless, warrantless searches of their electronic devices at the border by the U.S...

Press Release | July 16, 2019

EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations

SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of AT&T customers in California to stop the telecom giant and two data location aggregators from allowing numerous entities—including bounty hunters, car dealerships, landlords, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | July 15, 2019

Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems

Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new idea: requiring companies to report a dollar value for the data they collect from us. Some frame this reporting as a first step towards requiring companies to share...

Deeplinks Blog by Camille Fischer | July 12, 2019

President Trump Loses — Government Can't Block Critics on Social Media

In a long-awaited ruling, the Second Circuit has found that the replies section on President Trump’s Twitter @realDonaldTrump is a public forum and that the President cannot block his critics from reading his tweets or participating in the forum merely because he dislikes the views they express. This ruling...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Gillula | July 12, 2019

Adjusting the Scope of our Security Vulnerability Disclosure Program

At EFF we put security and privacy first. That's why over three years ago we launched EFF's Security Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Disclosure Program is a set of guidelines on how security researchers can tell EFF about bugs in the software we develop, like HTTPS Everywhere or ...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | July 11, 2019

Interoperability: Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Companies

Everyone in the tech world claims to love interoperability—the technical ability to plug one product or service into another product or service—but interoperability covers a lot of territory, and depending on what's meant by interoperability, it can do a lot, a little, or nothing at all to protect users, innovation...

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Geolocation Privacy

This case seeks to stop AT&T and two data location aggregators from allowing numerous entities—including bounty hunters, car dealerships, landlords, and stalkers—to access wireless customers’ real-time locations without authorization. An investigation by Motherboard earlier this year revealed that any cellphone user’s precise, real-time location could be bought for just...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | July 10, 2019

Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate

The Senate Judiciary Committee intends to vote on the CASE Act, legislation that would create a brand new quasi-court for copyright infringement claims. We have expressed numerous concerns with the legislation, and serious problems inherent with the bill have not been remedied by Congress before moving it forward. In...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | July 10, 2019

California’s Senate Judiciary Committee Blocks Efforts to Weaken California’s Privacy Law

The California Senate Judiciary Committee heard five bills on Tuesday that EFF and other privacy advocates strongly opposed. These measures, backed by big business and the tech industry, would have eviscerated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a landmark privacy law passed last year. We thank the Senate Judiciary...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss, Joe Mullin | July 10, 2019

Don’t Be Scared: European and Chinese Software Patents Won't Hurt U.S. Businesses

A Senate subcommittee recently concluded three days of testimony about a proposed patent bill that, we have explained, would be a terrible idea. Proponents of the bill keep saying that Section 101 of U.S. patent law, which bars patents on things like abstract ideas and laws of nature, needs...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | July 10, 2019

Could Regulatory Backlash Entrench Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra?

Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra has garnered attention from lawmakers and consumer groups since it was announced last month. And it’s no wonder: with a wince-inducing history of data disclosure scandals, the Facebook brand has become synonymous with ineptitude at protecting privacy. They’re bringing that tarnished reputation to cryptocurrency...

Event | July 10, 2019

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Sharpening Our Claws: Teaching Privacy Badger to Fight More Third-Party Trackers

House Judiciary Committee Continues Its Antitrust Inquiry Into the Internet Marketplace

The Design Behind EFF's New Membership Shirt

Hearing Thursday: EFF, ACLU Will Ask Court to Rule In Favor of Travelers Suing DHS Over Unconstitutional, Warrantless Searches of Cellphones, Laptops

EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations

Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems

President Trump Loses — Government Can't Block Critics on Social Media

Adjusting the Scope of our Security Vulnerability Disclosure Program

Interoperability: Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Companies

Geolocation Privacy

Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate

California’s Senate Judiciary Committee Blocks Efforts to Weaken California’s Privacy Law

Don’t Be Scared: European and Chinese Software Patents Won't Hurt U.S. Businesses

Could Regulatory Backlash Entrench Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra?

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