The Path to Victory on Net Neutrality in the House of Representatives and How You Can Help
The United States Senate has voted to overturn the FCC and restore net neutrality protections, the fate of that measure currently rests in the House of Representatives. While many will think that the uphill battle there makes it a lost cause, that is simply not true. Together, we have the...
Oakland: The New Gold Standard in Community Control of Police Surveillance
There is a new gold standard in the movement to require transparency and community engagement before local police departments are permitted to acquire or use surveillance technology. Oakland’s Surveillance and Community Safety ordinance builds upon the momentum of several cities and counties that have enacted laws to protect their...
All California Kids Deserve Internet Access—Including Youth in Detention and Foster Care
A 2014 report by the National Institute of Justice, part of the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, highlighted the counterproductive nature of punitive policies in the juvenile justice system. They simply don’t work. It would be more effective to provide incarcerated youth with...
EFF to New York Appellate Court: No Warrantless Searches of Devices at the Border
In a month of court victories for travelers' digital privacy, EFF continues its legal fight for Fourth Amendment rights at the border. We filed an amicus brief yesterday, along with the ACLU and NYCLU, urging a New York State appellate court to rule that border agents need a probable cause...
The Senate Voted to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Now Tell the House to Do the Same
The Senate has voted to restore the 2015 Open Internet Order and reject the FCC’s attempt to gut net neutrality. This is a great first step, but now the fight moves to the House of Representatives.The final Senate vote was 52 to 47 in favor. That puts a bare majority...
Facebook Releases First-Ever Community Standards Enforcement Report
California Bill Would Allow Elected Officials to Regulate and Veto Police Use of Military Spy Tech
In recent years, protesters have come face to face with police forces that are increasingly well-equipped with battlefield surveillance technologies. That’s because U.S. police are getting more and more equipment from the U.S. military—including sophisticated surveillance equipment. The trend has led to disturbing scenes like those from 2014 protests...
The Supreme Court Says Your Expectation of Privacy Probably Shouldn’t Depend on Fine Print
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday in Byrd v. United States that the driver of a rental car could have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the car even though the rental agreement did not authorize him to drive it. We’re pleased that that the Court refused to let...
Pretty Good Procedures for Protecting Your Email
UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.A group of researchers recently released a paper that describes a new class of serious vulnerabilities in the popular encryption standard PGP (including GPG) as implemented in email clients....
Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Linux
If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we know about the vulnerability described by EFAIL.Note that the first...
