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EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification on January 15

FCC's New Rules Could Threaten Net Neutrality

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is circulating a proposal for new FCC rules on the issue of network neutrality, the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks equally. Unfortunately, early reports suggest those rules may do more harm than good.
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How Iran's Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard

Narenji ("Orange") was Iran's top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped office in the country's city of Kerman. The site was targeted at Iran's growing audience of technology enthusiasts. Like Gizmodo or Engadget in the United States, it had...

EFF Outlines Key Issues With Mass Surveillance to Government Oversight Board

EFF recently filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) concerning Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA), one of the key statutes under which the government claims it can conduct mass surveillance of innocent people's communications and records...

LGBTQ Communities in the Arab World Face Unique Digital Threats

Across the Arab world, LGBTQ communities still struggle to gain social recognition, and individuals still face legal penalties for consensual activities. In Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq, homosexuality is punishable by death. In 2001, 52 men were arrested for being gay in Cairo. And in Syria, Algeria,...

Comparing NSA Reforms to International Law: A New Graphic by AccessNow

All too often bills are proposed and laws are passed in the United States that are in grave violation of the United States' obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. And all too rarely does U.S. domestic policy get spoken about in terms of human rights laws....

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In Aereo, Supreme Court Rightly Skeptical About Becoming Technology Regulators

In the highly anticipated oral arguments of ABC v. Aereo yesterday, the Supreme Court expressed serious concerns about the unintended consequences that their ruling could have on technology and cloud services.The start-up Aereo provides subscribers online access to a DVR that can hold recordings of over-the-air broadcasts made using...

Making Sure NSA Reform Isn’t Caught in the Gears of the D.C. Machine

Congress has been poised to move on powerful legislation to reform the NSA for months, so what’s slowing things down?
It’s been over ten months since the Guardian published the first disclosure of secret documents confirming the true depths of NSA surveillance, and Congress has still not touched...

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