It’s Time for Google to Resist Geofence Warrants and to Stand Up for Its Affected Users
EFF would like to thank former intern Haley Amster for drafting this post, and former legal fellow Nathan Sobel for his assistance in editing it.The Fourth Amendment requires authorities to target search warrants at particular places or things—like a home, a bank deposit box, or a cell phone—and only when...
Si lo construyes, ellos vendrán: Apple ha abierto la puerta trasera a una mayor vigilancia y censura en todo el mundo
UPDATE: Apple announced it will provide fully encrypted iCloud backups, meeting a longstanding demand by EFF and other privacy-focused organizations, and it has officially dropped its plans to install photo-scanning software on its devices, which would have inspected...
O (No!) Canada: Fast-Moving Proposal Creates Filtering, Blocking and Reporting Rules—and Speech Police to Enforce Them
Policymakers around the world are contemplating a wide variety of proposals to address “harmful” online expression. Many of these proposals are dangerously misguided and will inevitably result in the censorship of all kinds of lawful and valuable expression. And one of the most dangerous proposals may be adopted in Canada....
What to Do When Schools Use Canvas or Blackboard Logs to Allege Cheating
Over the past few months, students from all over the country have reached out to EFF and other advocacy organizations because their schools—including teachers and administrators—have made flimsy claims about cheating based on digital logs from online learning platforms that don’t hold up to scrutiny. Such claims were made...
The Company Behind Online Learning Platform Canvas Should Commit to Transparency, Due Process for Students
Canvas is an online learning platform created by the Utah-based education technology company Instructure. In the past year, the platform has also been turned into a disciplinary technology, as more and more schools have come to rely on Canvas to drive allegations of cheating—despite student protests and technical...
Tech Rights Are Workers' Rights: DoorDash Edition
DoorDash workers are embroiled in a bitter labor dispute with the company: at issue, the tips that “Dashers” depend on to make the difference between a living wage and the poorhouse. DoorDash has a long history of abusing its workers’ tips; including a particularly ugly case brought by the...
Why Companies Keep Folding to Copyright Pressure, Even If They Shouldn’t
The giant record labels, their association, and their lobbyists have succeeded in getting a number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives to pressure Twitter to pay money it does not owe, to labels who have no claim to it, against the interests of its users. This is a...
This Captcha Patent Is An All-American Nightmare
A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing U.S....
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
We Have Questions for DEF CON's Puzzling Keynote Speaker, DHS Secretary Mayorkas
The Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will be giving a DEF CON keynote address this year. Those attending this weekend’s hybrid event will have a unique opportunity to “engage” with the man who heads the department responsible for surveillance of immigrants, Muslims, Black activists, and other marginalized...
