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Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | September 11, 2019

Victory! California Senate Votes Against Face Surveillance on Police Body Cams

The California Senate listened to the many voices expressing concern about the use of face surveillance on cameras worn or carried by police officers, and has passed an important bill that will, for three years, prohibit police from turning a tool intended to foster police accountability into one that furthers...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | September 11, 2019

With the Intimidation of Tech Expert, Ola Bini Case Hits A New Low

In the early hours of last Thursday in Ecuador, members of the Judicial Police, assisted by the Prosecutor’s Office, broke down the door of Fabián Hurtado at his apartment in Quito. Hurtado is a cybersecurity expert at the International University (UISEK) in Ecuador and a digital forensics expert...

Deeplinks Blog by Kurt Opsahl | September 11, 2019

That Time EFF Got a Copyright Takedown Demand

EFF received an email claiming that our body-camera police officer illustration (shown in the banner above) violated the sender’s copyright in a graphic they used to illustrate a tweet (cropped screenshot shown on the right). The email demanded we remove the image or provide a link to their e-commerce website...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | September 11, 2019

Congress Continues to Ignore the Dangerous Flaws of the CASE Act

The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) is one of those (mostly) bad ideas that just won’t go away. It feels like a simple and easy solution to a thorny problem in copyright law: streamlining the dispute process. But as often happens, this solution is neither simple nor...

Press Release | September 11, 2019

New Report Finds Border Communities Inundated with Surveillance Technologies

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today published “The Atlas of Surveillance: Southwestern Border Communities,” the first report from a new research partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism. EFF and a team of students compiled profiles of six counties along the U.S.-Mexico...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | September 10, 2019

Victory! California's Legislature Pulls AT&T and Comcast Bill That Protected Their Monopolies

AT&T and Comcast lobbyists fought hard this year to pass A.B. 1366, a bill that would have protected their broadband monopolies. Thanks to your support, that bill will not move forward this year. The California legislature in 2012 decided to eliminate the authority of its own telecom regulator, the California...

Deeplinks Blog by Camille Fischer, Andrew Crocker | September 10, 2019

Victory! Ruling in hiQ v. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data

In a long-awaited decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). This is an important clarification of the CFAA’s scope, which should provide some...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Threat Lab | September 9, 2019

Watering Holes and Million Dollar Dissidents: the Changing Economics of Digital Surveillance

Recently, Google’s Project Zero published a report describing a newly-discovered campaign of surveillance using chains of zero day iOS exploits to spy on iPhones. This campaign employed multiple compromised websites in what is known as a “watering hole” attack. The compromised websites would automatically run the chain of exploits...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | September 9, 2019

New Chair of EFF’s Board of Directors: Renowned Legal Expert Pamela Samuelson

EFF is proud to announce our newest Chair of our Board of Directors, renowned legal expert Pamela Samuelson. Pam has served on EFF’s board for nearly 20 years, and her deep knowledge of digital copyright law, intellectual property, and information policy has made EFF a stronger organization. Pam is...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | September 9, 2019

Americans Deserve Their Day in Court About NSA Mass Surveillance Programs

EFF continues our fight to have the U.S. courts protect you from mass government surveillance. Today in our landmark Jewel v. NSA case, we filed our opening brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asserting that the courts don’t have to turn a blind eye to the...

Deeplinks Blog by Lindsay Oliver, Sydney Young | September 6, 2019

EFF's DEF CON 27 T-Shirt Puzzle

At Hacker Summer Camp 2019, EFF unveiled our 10th-annual limited edition member shirt—available only during the three-day event, and inspired by the DEF CON theme of Technology’s Promise: “a break from the dystopian imagery into a major-key, blue-sky thoughtscape, full of color and light...a future where we have tamed...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | September 6, 2019

Facebook's Dating Service is Full of Red Flags

If you open Facebook’s mobile app today, it will likely suggest that you try the company’s new Dating service, which just launched in the U.S. after a rollout in 19 other countries last year. But with the company’s track record of mishandling user data, and its business model of monetizing...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | September 5, 2019

Key California Officials Join the Voices Opposing Broadband Deregulation Law

Right now, a vast majority of Californians have just one choice—or no choice at all—for high-speed broadband service, thanks to a law that removed any state oversight over California's broadband market. When that law passed in 2012, its supporters, including AT&T and Comcast, promised that removing oversight of any...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch, Adam Schwartz | September 4, 2019

Facebook Is Changing Its Face Recognition Settings. We Have Questions.

Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions: What exactly has Facebook changed? How many Facebook users...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | September 4, 2019

Remembering Gene Crick, Digital Rights Pioneer

We pause this week to celebrate our longtime friend Gene Crick, a digital rights activist and former president of EFF-Austin, who passed away August 14 in Texas at age 73. Gene was a tireless advocate for free speech, a free, open, and inclusive Internet, and digital rights for everyone in...

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Victory! California Senate Votes Against Face Surveillance on Police Body Cams

With the Intimidation of Tech Expert, Ola Bini Case Hits A New Low

That Time EFF Got a Copyright Takedown Demand

Congress Continues to Ignore the Dangerous Flaws of the CASE Act

New Report Finds Border Communities Inundated with Surveillance Technologies

Victory! California's Legislature Pulls AT&T and Comcast Bill That Protected Their Monopolies

Victory! Ruling in hiQ v. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data

Watering Holes and Million Dollar Dissidents: the Changing Economics of Digital Surveillance

New Chair of EFF’s Board of Directors: Renowned Legal Expert Pamela Samuelson

Americans Deserve Their Day in Court About NSA Mass Surveillance Programs

EFF's DEF CON 27 T-Shirt Puzzle

Facebook's Dating Service is Full of Red Flags

Key California Officials Join the Voices Opposing Broadband Deregulation Law

Facebook Is Changing Its Face Recognition Settings. We Have Questions.

Remembering Gene Crick, Digital Rights Pioneer

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