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Deeplinks Blog by Mona Wang | February 24, 2020

Apple, Tell Us More About Your App Store Takedowns

EFF and 10 human rights organizations called out Apple for enabling China's censorship and surveillance regime through overly broad content restrictions on the App Store in China, and for its decision to move iCloud backups and encryption keys to within China. In a letter to Philip Schiller, Apple...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | February 24, 2020

Court Report Provides New Details About How Federal Law Enforcement in Seattle Obtain Private Information Without Warrants

Federal law enforcement in Seattle sought an average of one court order a day to disclose people’s sensitive information such as calling history in the first half of 2019, according to a report released this year. The report, the first of its kind by the U.S. District Court for...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | February 21, 2020

Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses

When Apple's App Store launched in 2008, it was widely hailed as a breakthrough in computing, a "curated experience" that would transform the chaos of locating and assessing software and replace it with a reliable one-stop-shop where every app would come pre-tested and with a trusted seal of approval. But...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | February 19, 2020

EFF to Ninth Circuit: Border Searches of Electronic Devices Require a Warrant

Although the Ninth Circuit issued a strong opinion last year in favor of digital privacy rights at the border, EFF filed an amicus brief [PDF] in a new case urging the court to go a step further. The Ninth Circuit should finally hold that the Fourth Amendment requires...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | February 19, 2020

California’s Broadband Fund Ignores Fiber and Favors Slow DSL

The California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), a program launched in 2008 to connect all Californians to high-speed Internet, was an early success. It helped build middle mile open access fiber to hard-to-serve communities and delivered high-speed access to areas that never had Internet. It funded fiber-to-the-home to public...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Bill Budington | February 18, 2020

Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy—But Ignores Larger Concerns

Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has announced extra layers of security and control for users after a wave of backlash from civil liberties and cyber security organizations like EFF and Mozilla. Organizations raised major concerns over Ring’s lack of effort in protecting the data and security of users...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | February 18, 2020

Virginia Anti-SLAPP Bill is Good for Free Speech But Can Still Be Made Stronger

The Virginia legislature is on the verge of a big step forward for free expression. In the coming days, legislators will have the opportunity to pass a bill that would push back against harassing lawsuits called SLAPPs, or Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. SLAPPs are lawsuits that are filed to...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | February 13, 2020

In Foreshadowing Cryptocurrency Regulations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Prioritizes Law Enforcement Concerns

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin foreshadowed the Trump administration’s plans for greater surveillance of cryptocurrency users during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. He noted that cryptocurrency was a “crucial area” for the Treasury Department to examine, and said: We are working with FinCEN and...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Hayley Tsukayama | February 13, 2020

California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers

California police and sheriffs are failing to protect the privacy of drivers on city streets, the California State Auditor’s office determined after a seven-month investigation into the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by the Los Angeles Police Department and three other local law enforcement agencies. California State Senator...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | February 12, 2020

Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later: Let’s Think of the Users

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is one of the most important laws affecting the Internet and technology. Without the DMCA’s safe harbors from crippling copyright liability, many of the services on which we rely, big and small, commercial and noncommercial, would not exist. That means Youtube, but also Wikipedia...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti, Danny O'Brien | February 11, 2020

Uruguay Steps Too Quickly into the Right to be Forgotten Quagmire

The further the "Right to be Forgotten" (RTBF) online progresses from its original creation by Europe's Court of Justice, the broader and more damaging its ramifications seem to be. The latest attempt to insert it is a rushed proposal in Uruguay. The complaints of multiple digital rights groups across...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | February 6, 2020

Europeans Deserve to Have Their Governments Test—Not Trust—Filters

Thanks to the adoption of a disastrous new Copyright Directive, the European Union is about to require its member states to pass laws requiring online service providers to ensure the unavailability of copyright-protected works. This will likely result in the use of copyright filters that automatically assess user-submitted audio, text...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | February 5, 2020

How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter

The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users' phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to protect themselves. Earlier this week, Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | February 5, 2020

How Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number

Twitter has publicly disclosed a security “incident” that points to long-standing problems with how the service handles phone numbers. Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were uploading large numbers of phone numbers and using tools in Twitter’s API to match...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | February 4, 2020

EFF Lawsuit Ends Censorship Against PETA on Public University’s Facebook Page

In a big win for free speech on the Internet, an EFF lawsuit has compelled the nation’s second-largest public university to stop censoring dissent on its social media. To settle our First Amendment case, Texas A&M University (TAMU) agreed to end its automatic and manual blocking of comments posted on...

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Apple, Tell Us More About Your App Store Takedowns

Court Report Provides New Details About How Federal Law Enforcement in Seattle Obtain Private Information Without Warrants

Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses

EFF to Ninth Circuit: Border Searches of Electronic Devices Require a Warrant

California’s Broadband Fund Ignores Fiber and Favors Slow DSL

Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy—But Ignores Larger Concerns

Virginia Anti-SLAPP Bill is Good for Free Speech But Can Still Be Made Stronger

In Foreshadowing Cryptocurrency Regulations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Prioritizes Law Enforcement Concerns

California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers

Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later: Let’s Think of the Users

Uruguay Steps Too Quickly into the Right to be Forgotten Quagmire

Europeans Deserve to Have Their Governments Test—Not Trust—Filters

How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter

How Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number

EFF Lawsuit Ends Censorship Against PETA on Public University’s Facebook Page

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