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Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 28, 2020

Two Federal COVID-19 Privacy Bills: A Good Start and a Misstep

COVID-19, and containment efforts that rely on personal data, are shining a spotlight on a longstanding problem: our nation’s lack of sufficient laws to protect data privacy. Two bills before Congress attempt to solve this problem as to COVID-19 data. One is a good start that needs improvements. The other...

Event | June 18, 2020

Ethics In Technology: Big Tech, Big Troubles & Big Laughs 

Ethics in Technology, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: Ethics In Tech: Big Tech, Big Trouble, Big Laughs From the Organizers: The World Post Pandemic: How surveillance and weapon systems, used unwisely, can harm humanity! Mark Twain once wrote...

Event | June 9, 2020

Guided Tour of Tech Learning Collective Foundations

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event Guided Tour of Tech Learning Collective Foundations From the Organizers: Just getting started learning computer technologies? Join Tech Learning Collective instructors for this free, guided tour of the Tech...

Event | May 28, 2020

STOP x RadTech: NY State Geolocation Ban

S.T.O.P.- a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: STOP x RadTech: NY State Geolocation Ban From the Organizers : Unwarranted Access: New York State Geolocation Ban with Assembly Member Dan QuartCellphones record location data, and with the introduction...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | May 27, 2020

A Plan to Pay Artists, Encourage Competition, and Promote Free Expression

Update/Correction, May 27 2020, 2PM Pacific. An earlier version of this article contained the phrase "the the online music industry is currently generating more revenues than the music industry did at the height of the CD bubble"; this has been corrected to read "the online music industry is currently...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney, Mark Rumold | May 26, 2020

The House Is Voting on Section 215, Again. The Bill Still Needs More Reform

Later this week, the House of Representatives is once again voting on whether or not to extend the authorities in Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse, along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, and possibly, an amendment. Congress...

Event | May 26, 2020

Online Tuesday Tutorial: Considering Composition

Cambridge CCTV , a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: Online Tuesday Tutorial: Considering Composition From the Organizers: This short 20-30 minute mini tutorial will go over how to assemble powerful composition within a cinematic story. Please note that this...

Press Release | May 22, 2020

Hearing Tuesday: EFF Urges California Lawmakers to Pass Fiber Broadband for All Bill To Ensure Full Internet Access For Everyone During the Pandemic and Beyond

Sacramento, California—On Tuesday, May 26, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask California senators to approve a measure that will transition the state’s outdated communications network to fiber, bringing affordable high-speed broadband service, essential during the pandemic and beyond, to all residents.EFF Senior Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon will testify Tuesday...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | May 22, 2020

EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities

In the Internet age, copyright decisions can have enormous consequences for all kinds of activities, because almost everything we do on the Internet involves making copies. And when courts make a mistake, they may create all sorts of unexpected legal risks. As we explained to the Eleventh Circuit yesterday, a...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | May 21, 2020

EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities

EFF submitted a letter to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to testify to the negative impacts of mass surveillance on vulnerable communities at the U.S. border. The Special Rapporteur called for submissions on “Race, Borders, and...

Event | May 31, 2020

Future Ada: Online Harassment Privacy & Security Workshop

The Internet is a wonderful place where we can access almost any information in a moment's notice. Many of us use it to stay in touch with colleagues, friends and loved ones around the world. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true: certain offenders will use it to stay in touch...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr, Seth Schoen | May 21, 2020

International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19

Time and again, governments have used crises to expand their power, and often their intrusion into citizens’ lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen this pattern play out on a huge scale. From deploying drones or ankle monitors to enforce quarantine orders to proposals to use face recognition...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | May 20, 2020

New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company

Patent trolls don’t care much about innovation. Their lawsuits and threats are attempts at rent-seeking; they’re demanding money from people who make, use, or sell technology just for doing what they were already doing—for crossing the proverbial “bridge” that the patent troll has decided to lurk under. You might think...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 20, 2020

No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results

EFF opposes a California bill, A.B. 2004, that would authorize the issuers of COVID-19 test results to do so with digital verifiable credentials. This bill would take us a step towards national digital identification, create information security risks, exacerbate social inequities in access to smartphones and COVID-19 tests...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 20, 2020

COVID-19 Patients’ Right to Privacy Against Quarantine Surveillance

Governments around the world are using surveillance technologies to monitor whether COVID-19 patients are complying with instructions to quarantine at home. These include GPS ankle shackles, phone apps that track location, and phone apps that require patients to periodically take quarantine selfies and send them to government monitors. All of...

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Two Federal COVID-19 Privacy Bills: A Good Start and a Misstep

Ethics In Technology: Big Tech, Big Troubles & Big Laughs

Guided Tour of Tech Learning Collective Foundations

STOP x RadTech: NY State Geolocation Ban

A Plan to Pay Artists, Encourage Competition, and Promote Free Expression

The House Is Voting on Section 215, Again. The Bill Still Needs More Reform

Online Tuesday Tutorial: Considering Composition

Hearing Tuesday: EFF Urges California Lawmakers to Pass Fiber Broadband for All Bill To Ensure Full Internet Access For Everyone During the Pandemic and Beyond

EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities

EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities

Future Ada: Online Harassment Privacy & Security Workshop

International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19

New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company

No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results

COVID-19 Patients’ Right to Privacy Against Quarantine Surveillance

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