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Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

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2011 in Review: Watershed Moments in the Fight for Free Speech, Privacy, and Fair Use

As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. From WikiLeaks to the Arab Spring, from fighting the Internet blacklist legislation to...

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Data Protection Regulation and the Politics of Interoperability

The United States Government is taking its stance pressuring the European Union to weaken its new strengthened data protection bill. The European Union has a history of strong data protection standards, emboldened by the European Charter’s explicit provisions upholding data protection as a fundamental right. European Digital Rights (EDRi) revealed...
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New Agreement Between the United States and Europe Will Compromise the Privacy Rights of International Travelers

The European Parliament will vote soon on an agreement to formalize US procedures for retaining and providing EU based Passenger Name Record (PNR) data of EU and US citizens traveling into, out of, and through the United States. The agreement will determine how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will...

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Next Step: Identifying Customers of Surveillance Technology Companies and Turning Up the Heat

In the past month—thanks to reporting from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, as well as WikiLeaks and its media partners—a little sunlight has finally exposed a large but shadowy industry: Western technology companies selling mass spying software to governments. The amazing and dangerous capabilities of these...

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