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Event | September 27, 2018

Privacy Lab

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: September Privacy Lab Given the under-representation of diverse groups in the tech industry, and given that diverse workplaces lead to better products and more successful companies, many companies are undertaking...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 18, 2018

Hill-Climbing Our Way to Defeating DRM

Computer science has long grappled with the problem of unknowable terrain: how do you route a packet from A to E when B, C, and D are nodes that keep coming up and going down as they get flooded by traffic from other sources? How do you shard a database...
EFF Cat Speaking Freely
Legal Case

Automated Transactions LLC v. American Bankers Association

In this case, patent assertion entity Automated Transactions, LLC (“ATL”) and inventor David Barcelou filed a defamation complaint [PDF] in New Hampshire Superior Court. ATL and Barcelou allege that statements referring to them as a “patent troll” are defamatory. They also claim that characterizations of ATL’s litigation campaign as...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | September 17, 2018

California Law Could be a Big Step Forward for Police Transparency

Government can’t be accountable unless it is transparent. Voters and taxpayers can only know whether they approve of the actions of public officials and public employees if they know what they’re doing. That transparency is especially important when it comes to the actions of local police, who carry weapons and...
Congress + Action
Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon, India McKinney | September 14, 2018

The Game is Rigged: Congress Invites No Consumer Privacy Advocates to its Consumer Privacy Hearing

The Senate Commerce Committee is getting ready to host a much-anticipated hearing on consumer privacy—and consumer privacy groups don’t get a seat at the table. Instead, the Committee is seeking only the testimony of big tech and Internet access corporations: Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Charter Communications, Google, and Twitter...

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