Portland TA3M: Portland Surveillance Technology Inventory
Portland's Techno-Activism Third Mondays, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF), will host this event:Portland Surveillance Technology InventoryFrom the Organizers:As you likely know, cities around the world are increasingly adopting surveillance technologies in the hope of solving a variety of problems. While these...
It's Summer Security Week at EFF
EFF at Las Vegas Hacker Summer Camp
The EFF team is pleased to return to the Las Vegas hacker summer camp conferences—BSidesLV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON 31—to rally behind computer security researchers and tinkerers. This entire week of events is a meaningful opportunity to reconnect with the infosec and hacker community, who...
Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say
WEI? I’m a frayed knotTwo pieces of string walk into a bar.The first piece of string asks for a drink.The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.”The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender...
EFF to 9th Circuit: App Stores Shouldn’t Be Liable for Processing Payments for User Content
EFF filed a brief this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arguing that app stores should not be liable for user speech just because they recommend that speech or process payments for those users. Those stores should be protected by Section 230, a...
The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars
Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to a very common reality for people in San Francisco with other places in the U.S. also testing the new technology. With innovations often come unintended consequences—one of which is the massive collection of data required for...
Celebrating Ten Years of Encrypting the Web with Let’s Encrypt
Facebook Apparently Will Ask for Consent Before Showing Behavioral Ads to Some Users
UN Cybercrime Convention Negotiations Enter Final Phase With Troubling Surveillance Powers Still on the Table
This is Part II in EFF’s ongoing series about the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Read Part I for a quick snapshot of the ins and outs of the zero draft; Part III for a deep dive on Chapter V regarding international cooperation: the historical context,...
