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Event | January 7, 2020

CNET's Next Big Thing: IoT | Moving into an Anticipatory Tech World - With Cindy Cohn

An annual tradition at CES, CNET's "The Next Big Thing" SuperSession will explore innovations in the ways our devices learn to foresee our needs and act without needing to be prompted. This panel will discuss how an array of sensors and data-sharing work behind the scenes to help support an...

Event | January 19, 2020

Threat Modeling

Tools and techniques may change, but threat modeling persists. Threat modeling is the cornerstone for teaching all other digital security concepts: it helps learners to feel confident in planning their defense against risks, and helps facilitators to better teach to the concerns of their audiences.

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | January 1, 2020

Consumer Privacy: Year in Review 2019

2019 has been an eventful year for consumer privacy, both in a few key courts and state legislatures as well as in Silicon Valley. An important decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August defended the ability of Illinois citizens to protect their biometric data. Meanwhile, a flurry...

Deeplinks Blog by Lindsay Oliver | January 1, 2020

Surveillance Self-Defense: Year in Review 2019

Here at EFF, we maintain a repository of self-help resources on circumventing surveillance across a variety of different platforms, devices, and threat models. We call it Surveillance Self-Defense, or SSD for short. SSD covers myriad topics, and is broken up into four main sections: Basics: Overviews on what...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | December 31, 2019

The Fight Against Government Face Surveillance: 2019 Year in Review

Vendors woo law enforcement with a seemingly inexhaustible flow of new spy tech. This places concerned community members, civil society, and lawmakers in a seemingly Sisyphean struggle of trying to keep up with new technological threats to privacy, and to shepard the adoption of enforceable policy to protect essential civil...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz, Lee Tien, Hayley Tsukayama, Bennett Cyphers | December 31, 2019

Consumer Data Privacy in California: 2019 Year in Review

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was enacted in 2018 and goes into effect in 2020. Throughout 2019, EFF and our privacy coalition allies beat back numerous attempts by big business to block this important law before it goes into effect. We did so in the California Legislature...

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | December 30, 2019

Protecting the Legal Foundation of the Internet: 2019 in Review

When someone says something unlawful online, they should be the one held responsible for it, not the website or platform where they said it. Section 230—the most important law protecting free speech online—reflects that common-sense principle. This year, EFF defended Section 230 in Congress, the courts, and on the...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | December 30, 2019

Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review

We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we go will only be known to those who were there in person. Yet maintaining such anonymity and privacy in public spaces is becoming ever more difficult. 2019 has...

Deeplinks Blog by Max Hunter, Seth Schoen | December 29, 2019

Encrypting DNS: Year in Review 2019

This February, with Venezuela rocked by economic collapse and a presidential succession crisis, an opposition party put out a call for volunteers. Juan Guaidó, a political leader with the Popular Will party, called on supporters to register at the site “Volunteers for Venezuela”. Guaidó announced that the call...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | December 29, 2019

Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019

Last year, the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in a case we’ve written about a lot, called Carpenter v. United States, ruling that the Fourth Amendment protects data generated by our phones called historical cell-site location information or CSLI. The Court recognized that CSLI creates a “detailed chronicle...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | December 28, 2019

Jewel v. NSA: On to the Ninth Circuit: 2019 Year in Review

Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s landmark case challenging NSA’s mass spying moved forward in 2019, setting up a crucial decision for the Ninth Circuit in 2020. We’ve pursued this case for over a decade because we believe that mass surveillance, like all general search and seizure schemes, is both illegal and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | December 28, 2019

The Year in Corporate Speech Controls

Content moderation and its effects remained at the forefront of the public imagination in 2019, with stories of takedowns from Sweden to Syria and everywhere in between gaining media attention. Inconsistent and unfair moderation from companies—often under great pressure from governments and other external actors—is still a serious...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | December 27, 2019

Fighting Back Against Face Surveillance in the Skies: 2019 Year in Review

While cities and municipalities made clear strides to limit the use of face surveillance technology throughout 2019, airlines and government agencies tasked with identifying travelers have spent much of the year trying to expand its use. But while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | December 27, 2019

EFF Enters the Competition Fray: 2019 Year in Review

None of us signed up for an Internet composed of "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four", but here we are, watching as hyper-concentrated industries rack up catastrophic victories against net neutrality, right to repair, security auditing, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Gillula | December 27, 2019

Victories and Disappointments in AI and Algorithmic Decision-Making: 2019 Year in Review

AI and algorithmic decision-making raised important civil liberties issues in 2019, with developments good, bad, and in-between. Starting off in the “disappointing” category, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in August that it was considering new rules that would insulate landlords, banks, and insurance companies...

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CNET's Next Big Thing: IoT | Moving into an Anticipatory Tech World - With Cindy Cohn

Threat Modeling

Consumer Privacy: Year in Review 2019

Surveillance Self-Defense: Year in Review 2019

The Fight Against Government Face Surveillance: 2019 Year in Review

Consumer Data Privacy in California: 2019 Year in Review

Protecting the Legal Foundation of the Internet: 2019 in Review

Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review

Encrypting DNS: Year in Review 2019

Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019

Jewel v. NSA: On to the Ninth Circuit: 2019 Year in Review

The Year in Corporate Speech Controls

Fighting Back Against Face Surveillance in the Skies: 2019 Year in Review

EFF Enters the Competition Fray: 2019 Year in Review

Victories and Disappointments in AI and Algorithmic Decision-Making: 2019 Year in Review

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