App Stores Have Kicked Out Some Location Data Brokers. Good, Now Kick Them All Out.
Last fall, reports revealed the location data broker X-Mode’s ties to several U.S. defense contractors. Shortly after, both Apple and Google banned the X-Mode SDK from their app stores, essentially shutting off X-Mode’s pipeline of location data. In February, Google kicked another location data broker, Predicio, from...
EFF to Supreme Court: Users Must Be Able to Hold Tech Companies Accountable in Lawsuits When Their Data is Mishandled
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court to rule that consumers can take big tech companies like Facebook and Google to court, including in class action lawsuits, to hold them accountable for privacy and other user data-related violations, regardless of whether they can show they suffered...
Internet Advocates Call on ISPs to Commit to Basic User Privacy Protections
This blog post was co-written by EFF, the Internet Society, and Mozilla.As people have learned more about how companies like Google and Facebook track them online they are increasingly taking steps to protect themselves, but there is one relatively unknown way that companies and bad actors can collect...
EFF to Supreme Court: States Face High Burden to Justify Forcing Groups to Turn Over Donor Names
Throughout our nation’s history—most potently since the era of civil rights activism—those participating in social movements challenging the status quo have enjoyed First Amendment protections to freely associate with others in advocating for causes they believe in. This right is directly tied to our ability to maintain privacy over what...
Scholars Under Surveillance: How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students
EFF, ACLU and EPIC File Amicus Brief Challenging Warrantless Cell Phone Search, Retention, and Subsequent Search
Last week, EFF—along with the ACLU and EPIC—filed an amicus brief in the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging a series of warrantless digital searches and seizures by state law enforcement officers: the search of a person’s entire cell phone, the retention of a copy of the data on the phone,...
Washington: Everyone Deserves Reliable Internet
The coronavirus pandemic, its related stay-at-home orders, and its economic and social impacts have illustrated how important robust broadband service is to everything from home-based work to education. Yet, even now, many communities across America have been unable to meet their residents’ telecommunication needs. This is because of two problems:...
The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into
Federal law enforcement has been asking for a backdoor to read Americans’ encrypted communications for years now. FBI Director Christopher Wray did it again last week in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. As usual, the FBI’s complaints involved end-to-end encryption employed by popular messaging platforms, as well...
Why You Can’t Sue Your Broadband Monopoly
Metallica and Twitch Are in the Copyright News Again
Sometimes, time is truly a flat circle. The band Metallica played live for the gaming convention BlizzCon. The convention, as is de rigueur in the pandemic, was online. So the performance was livestreamed. That’s when things got weird.On Blizzard’s Twitch and YouTube channels, the music was transmitted live, with no...
