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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...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | September 4, 2019

Lawmakers Must Not Listen to the Internet Association and Weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act

Hundreds of thousands of Californians last year demanded that big technology companies respect their privacy rights, and supported a movement that led to the California Consumer Privacy Act. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Big technology companies fought hard against the CCPA and have been leaning...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | September 3, 2019

The Stronger Patents Act Would Make Bad Patents Stronger Than Ever

Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) has introduced yet another version of the STRONGER Patents Act. In 2017, we explained how earlier versions of the bill would gut inter partes review, a much more affordable way to challenge bad patents. The bill also tears down the Supreme Court’s ...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | September 3, 2019

Suit Against Pharmacy Groups Uses Antitrust as a Weapon Against Unaccountable Online Censorship

PharmacyChecker.com found itself in a tough spot. The website evaluates online pharmacies, giving people information about how to cheaply and safely import prescription medicines into the U.S. for personal use. A network of other groups, closely aligned with U.S. pharmaceutical companies, is trying to drive Pharmacy Checker off the...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | August 30, 2019

As Ola Bini Prosecutors Wrap Up Investigation, Amnesty Calls Out Human Rights Violations in His Case

Today marks the last day that the Ecuadorean prosecution has to investigate its case against Ola Bini, the Swedish free software programmer who was arrested there in April and detained for over two months without trial and without clear charges. On Thursday, the judge accepted a plea by the prosecutors...

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers | August 30, 2019

Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox

Last week, Google announced a plan to “build a more private web.” The announcement post was, frankly, a mess. The company that tracks user behavior on over ⅔ of the web said that “Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do.” Google not only doubled down on...

Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain, Sophia Cope | August 30, 2019

Harvard Student’s Deportation Raises Concerns About Border Device Searches and Social Media Surveillance

Media outlets reported this week that an international student at Harvard University was deported back to Lebanon after border agents in Boston searched his electronic devices and confronted him about his friends’ social media posts. These allegations raise serious concerns about whether the government is following its own policies regarding...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | August 30, 2019

Five Concerns about Amazon Ring’s Deals with Police

More than 400 police departments across the country have partnered with Ring, tech giant Amazon’s “smart” doorbell program, to create a troubling new video surveillance system. Ring films and records any interaction or movement happening at the user’s front door, and alerts users’ phones. These partnerships expand the web...

Event | August 30, 2019

EFF at DragonCon 2019

Join EFF this Labor Day weekend at DragonCon, a "multi-media, pop culture convention focusing on science fiction & fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film." EFF staffers will be at a variety of panels and events over the course of weekend. Catch us at the following events, or stop...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | August 28, 2019

EFF and Mozilla Release Public Letter to Venmo

EFF is teaming up with the Mozilla Foundation to tell Venmo to clean up its privacy act. In a public letter sent to President/CEO Dan Schulman and COO Bill Ready today, we are telling Venmo to make transactions private by default and let users hide their friend lists. Both ...

Press Release | August 28, 2019

EFF and Mozilla to Venmo: Clean Up Your Privacy Settings

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Mozilla have teamed up in an open letter to Venmo, telling the popular payment app to clean up its privacy settings, which leaves sensitive financial data exposed to the public. Venmo is marketed as a way for friends to send...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | August 27, 2019

California Has No Broadband Plan for the Future While The World Marches Ahead

The world’s largest economies are aggressively modernizing their Internet infrastructure with universal fiber to-the-home plans or have already achieved that metric—with the exception of the United States. EFF noted that there is a desperate need for a federal “Fiber for All” plan that tackles this national problem. But the...

Press Release | August 27, 2019

EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies today to obtain information about the agencies’ warrantless use of global positioning system (GPS) devices to track vehicles entering the U.S.In 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a landmark decision...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn, Andrew Crocker | August 27, 2019

U.S. Export Controls and “Published” Encryption Source Code Explained

Throughout our long history of defending encryption, EFF has taken a special interest in ensuring that researchers and programmers who help build and strengthen digital security are not prevented from sharing their knowledge. Because of this history, we periodically get requests about the status of U.S. export controls and how...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | August 26, 2019

There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service

Every so often, a rash of identical posts starts to take over social media. This isn’t the work of bots, but the result of a number of people believing that these words will have an effect on the terms of service of Facebook, or, in this most recent case, Instagram...

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Remembering Gene Crick, Digital Rights Pioneer

Lawmakers Must Not Listen to the Internet Association and Weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act

The Stronger Patents Act Would Make Bad Patents Stronger Than Ever

Suit Against Pharmacy Groups Uses Antitrust as a Weapon Against Unaccountable Online Censorship

As Ola Bini Prosecutors Wrap Up Investigation, Amnesty Calls Out Human Rights Violations in His Case

Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox

Harvard Student’s Deportation Raises Concerns About Border Device Searches and Social Media Surveillance

Five Concerns about Amazon Ring’s Deals with Police

EFF at DragonCon 2019

EFF and Mozilla Release Public Letter to Venmo

EFF and Mozilla to Venmo: Clean Up Your Privacy Settings

California Has No Broadband Plan for the Future While The World Marches Ahead

EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles

U.S. Export Controls and “Published” Encryption Source Code Explained

There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms of Service

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