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Event | October 10, 2019

The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of Hyperpartisanship

Presented by Bloomberg, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the First Amendment Coalition. The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of Hyperpartisanship Social media platforms face intense and growing pressure to rein in misinformation and extremist content. On the left, presidential candidates are threatening to break...

Event | October 10, 2019

NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent Surveillance

Privacy Watch STL, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent Surveillance From the Organizers: A private company called “Persistent Surveillance Systems” is trying to bring a mini-fleet of spy planes to St. Louis.The mass-surveillance system, which...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | October 8, 2019

Bad News From the EU: High Court Blesses Global Takedown Order

The European Union seems to have fallen in love with the idea of requiring service providers to edit the Internet, with predictable consequences for speech. Until recently, there was reason to hope those consequences could be contained. For example, the EU’s highest court recently ruled that the EU’s ...

Event | October 12, 2019

Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online Scams

The Tech Learning Collective, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online Scams From the Organizers: The Tech Learning Collective invites you to join us for, “Gone Phishing: How to Recognize...

Event | October 12, 2019

International Day Against DRM

The Free Software Foundation(FSF), a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: International Day Against DRM From the Organizers: Every year FSF's campaign Defective by Design Lab organizes the International Day Against DRM (IDAD) to mobilize protests, grassroots activism, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | October 7, 2019

EFF to First Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Secretly Audio Record Police

The First Amendment protects the public’s right to use electronic devices to secretly audio record police officers performing their official duties in public. This is according to an amicus brief EFF filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The case, Martin v. Rollins, was brought...

Deeplinks Blog by Kit Walsh, Jillian C. York | October 6, 2019

Facebook Shouldn't Give Politicians More Power Than Ordinary Users

Amidst escalating rhetoric about alleged "anti-conservative bias" on social media, Facebook has doubled down on its policies exempting (some) politicians from its ordinary fact-checking and from its hate speech rules. Facebook's policies amplify the harm that hateful politicians can do and are not necessary to advance its stated goal...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Camille Fischer | October 4, 2019

A Race to the Bottom of Privacy Protection: The US-UK Deal Would Trample Cross Border Privacy Safeguards

UPDATE: The UK has now released the text of the UK-US Cloud Act agreement, and an explanatory memorandum available here. Last year, we warned that the passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act would weaken global privacy standards, opening up the possibility of more...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Joe Mullin | October 3, 2019

The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption

Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook’s plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on...

Press Release | October 3, 2019

Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology

San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they indiscriminately collected on millions of law-abiding drivers in Southern...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | October 3, 2019

Coders' Rights Are At Risk in Brazil, and the Harms Could Affect Everyone

A bill pending in the Brazilian Senate (PLS 272/2016) amends the current anti-terrorism law to make it a “terrorist act” to interfere with, sabotage or damage computer systems or databases in order to hinder their operation for a political or ideological motivation. Publicly praising such actions, or other...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | October 2, 2019

Adversarial Interoperability

“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter. But interoperability is just the...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn, David Greene | October 2, 2019

Privacy Allies File Amicus Briefs in Support of EFF’s Jewel v. NSA Case

Organizations raising concerns about mass surveillance, secrecy, and the Fourth Amendment, among other issues, have filed amicus briefs in support of EFF’s Jewel v. NSA case, currently pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals is set to review the District Court’s decision, which dismissed...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Katharine Trendacosta, Ernesto Falcon | October 1, 2019

D.C. Circuit Offers Bad News, Good News on Net Neutrality: FCC Repeal Upheld, But States Can Fill the Gap

Users, advocates, and service providers have been waiting for months to find out whether an appellate court will bless the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to repeal net neutrality protections, and whether the FCC can simultaneously force the states to follow suit. The answer: yes, and no. Bound by its interpretation...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | September 30, 2019

Senate Antitrust Hearing Explores Big Tech’s Merger Mania

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights held a hearing last week to explore the competitive impacts of big tech companies’ massive string of mergers with smaller companies in the last handful of years. Before the Senate committee were experts in venture capital spending, the Federal...

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The Digital Townsquare: The Future of Online Speech in an Age of Hyperpartisanship

NoSpyPlane Rally Against Persistent Surveillance

Bad News From the EU: High Court Blesses Global Takedown Order

Gone Phishing: How to Recognize Fake Websites and Other Online Scams

International Day Against DRM

EFF to First Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Secretly Audio Record Police

Facebook Shouldn't Give Politicians More Power Than Ordinary Users

A Race to the Bottom of Privacy Protection: The US-UK Deal Would Trample Cross Border Privacy Safeguards

The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption

Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology

Coders' Rights Are At Risk in Brazil, and the Harms Could Affect Everyone

Adversarial Interoperability

Privacy Allies File Amicus Briefs in Support of EFF’s Jewel v. NSA Case

D.C. Circuit Offers Bad News, Good News on Net Neutrality: FCC Repeal Upheld, But States Can Fill the Gap

Senate Antitrust Hearing Explores Big Tech’s Merger Mania

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