EFF Files Comments Criticizing Proposed CCPA Regulations
Today, EFF joined a coalition of privacy advocates in filing comments with the California Attorney General regarding its ongoing rulemaking process for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in 2018, and took effect on January 1, 2020. Later this year, the Attorney General (AG)...
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...
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 the...
EFF Calls For Disclosure of Secret Financing Details Behind $1.1 Billion .ORG Sale, Asks FTC To Scrutinize Deal
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) Education Fund today called on ICANN and private equity firm Ethos Capital to make public secret details—hidden costs, loan servicing fees, and inducements to insiders—about financing the $1.1 billion sale of the .ORG domain registry.EFF and...
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 app...
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...
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...
When Nudity Isn’t Even Nude: Chilean Artist’s Protest of Police Brutality Hidden on Instagram
In 2019, Chilean singer Mon Laferte won a Latin Grammy for best alternative album. She also used her appearance at the awards to make a statement about violence in her home country of Chile, baring her chest to show the words “En Chile torturan violan y matan”—"In Chile they torture,...
Tough Nuts: Twitter Suspends Meme-Sharing Planters Accounts
Peanut fans were devastated last month when the brand Planters killed off their famous mascot in an advertisement, but had cause to celebrate when the company announced the birth of adorable Baby Nut, a new mascot, during the Superbowl.In the runup to the big game, Planters reserved several Twitter...
When the Public is Private: Project Veritas Provocateur Wrongfully Suspended by Twitter
Since the 2016 U.S. election, political speech on social media—and how it’s moderated—has been a subject of much debate. Conservatives have repeatedly accused platforms of bias, while we’ve seen plenty of examples of wrongful takedowns from across the political spectrum. While many of the most talked-about conservative takedowns have involved...
