Partial Victory: Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors, But Leaves the Door Open for Informal Deals
Obama’s position on encryption is now public, as reported by the Washington Post. According to Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson of the Post, Obama “will not —for now—call for legislation requiring companies to decode messages for law enforcement.”
Instead, the Post reports, the “administration will continue trying to...
What We Know So Far About Digital Rights in the Still Secret Final TPP Text
Trade negotiators announced their agreement over the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Monday, and yet the exact terms of the deal remain as secret as ever. For more than five years, we have been given a series of dubious justifications for keeping the text under close...
Victory in California! Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant Before Accessing Your Data
Californians can rest assured that law enforcement can’t poke around in their digital records without first obtaining a warrant. Today, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed S.B. 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA).
After months of pressure from public interest groups, media organizations, privacy advocates, tech companies, and...
How Twitter CEO's Return Could Help the Company Get Back to its Free Expression Roots
The NSA and EFF Agree on One Thing: How the NSA's Internet Spying Works
Much has changed in the nearly ten years since we launched our first lawsuit challenging the NSA’s illegal surveillance of millions of Americans’ Internet communications. Over time, the defendants in the cases have changed; the legal “authority” the government has invoked to justify the program has changed; and the public’s...
Syria: Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate
Fears Grow For Safety of Imprisoned Syrian Open Source Developer, Bassel Khartabil
Two weeks ago, I wrote of exchanging letters with Bassel Khartabil, the creator of Syria's first hackerspace, a Creative Commons contributor and Wikipedian. Bassel has been detained for three and a half years by the Syrian authorities.
Bassel sent his letters from Adra prison, a civilian jail in...
Los Funcionarios de Comercio Finalizaron Negociaciones del TPP—Ahora Empieza la Verdadera Lucha
Agradecimientos a Luis Gil Abinader, investigador de FLACSO Argentina, por la traducción al español. Artículo original en inglés.
Los funcionarios cercanos a las negociaciones anunciaron ayer que alcanzaron un entendimiento final sobre el Acuerdo Transpacífico de Cooperación Económica (TPP, por sus siglas en inglés). Ese anuncio...
No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law. It should come as no surprise, then, that...
