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Event | August 31, 2019

DragonCon: Speakeasy ATL

Join the EFF staff and local online rights supporters this Saturday, August 31 in Atlanta! Raise a glass with EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl, Staff Technologist Erica Portnoy, and Legislative Activist Hayley Tsukayama while discovering our latest work defending your freedom online. The...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | August 22, 2019

Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a new ruling in U.S. v. Cano [.pdf] that offers greater privacy protection for people crossing the border with their electronic devices, but it doesn’t go as far as we sought in our amicus brief. Cano had attempted...

Deeplinks Blog by Mona Wang | August 22, 2019

Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

Yesterday, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari browsers started blocking a security certificate previously used by Kazakh ISPs to compromise their users’ security and perform dragnet surveillance. We encourage other browsers to take similar security measures. Since the fix has been implemented upstream in ...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | August 21, 2019

YouTube's New Lawsuit Shows Just How Far Copyright Trolls Have to Go Before They're Stopped

YouTube took a stand against a particularly pernicious copyright troll who was not only abusing the takedown system to remove content but was also using it in an extortion scam. While this gives the weight—and resources—of a large corporation in a fight that will benefit users, it also serves as...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss, Mitch Stoltz | August 21, 2019

The DOJ Should Keep Its Historic Role Guarding Competition and Innovation in the Music Business

If you want to play music as part of your business, either live or recorded, chances are you are going to have to pay the two big performing rights organizations. The American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) license the rights to a lot of...

Deeplinks Blog by Haley Pedersen | August 21, 2019

Communities Across the Country Reject Automated License Plate Readers

Recent months have seen a wave of cities and counties around the country rejecting the use of automated license plate readers in their communities, citing privacy concerns posed by the technology. Added to recent local level victories barring the use of face recognition technologies, it is encouraging...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | August 20, 2019

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

Ever since mid-2017, Apple has been tackling web tracking in a big way. Various iterations of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) technology have been introduced over the past few years in WebKit, the browser engine for Safari. ITP already protects users from tracking in various ways, but it left...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | August 20, 2019

Don't Renew Section 215 Indefinitely

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration wants Section 215, the legal authority that allows the National Security Agency to collect Americans’ telephone records, renewed indefinitely. That’s despite earlier reports the NSA had shuttered its Call Details Record (CDR) Program because it ran afoul of...

Deeplinks Blog by Ben Ballard, Katitza Rodriguez | August 20, 2019

IPANDETEC Rates Panama’s ISPs in its First ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? Report

It's Panama’s turn to take a closer look at the practices of its most prominent Internet Service Providers, and how their policies support their users’ privacy. IPANDETEC, the leading digital rights NGO in Panama, has launched its first "Who Defends Your Data" (¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos?) report. The survey shines...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | August 20, 2019

Court Rules That “Patent Troll” is Opinion, Not Defamation

Free speech in the patent world saw a big win on Friday, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that calling someone a “patent troll” doesn’t constitute defamation. The court’s opinion [PDF] is good news for critics of abusive patent litigation, and anyone who values robust public debate around...

Event | December 31, 1969

IFLA WLIC: Open Access from an Ethical and Legal Aspect

Join a panel of experts, including EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart, to discuss the state of open access at the International Federation of Library Associations' 2019 World Library and Information Congress. Libraries have the responsibility of providing democratic access to information for the benefit of all. The work...

Event | December 31, 1969

IFLA WLIC: Twenty Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement

Join a panel of experts, including EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart, to discuss trends in intellectual freedom and freedom of expression at the International Federation of Library Associations 2019 World Library and Information Congress. IFLA’s Intellectual Freedom statement was adopted 20 years ago this year, underlining the commitment...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Saira Hussain | August 19, 2019

EFF Calls on California to End Vendor-Driven ALPR Training

Update August 28, 2019: The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training has opened an investigation into the ALPR training program and will "take appropriate action," according to a letter responding to EFF's research. A single surveillance vendor has garnered a monopoly on training law enforcement in California...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 19, 2019

A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition

As long we've had electronic mass media, audiences and creators have benefited from periods of technological upheaval that force old gatekeepers to compete with brash newcomers with new ideas about what constitutes acceptable culture and art. Those newcomers eventually became gatekeepers themselves, who then faced their own crop of revolutionaries...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams | August 15, 2019

Victory! California Supreme Court Blocks Sweeping Search Condition of Minors’ Electronic Devices and Social Media Accounts

The California Supreme Court just rejected the government’s attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, to submit to random searches of his electronic devices and social media accounts. The trial court had imposed the condition because the judge believed teenagers “typically will brag” about drug...

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DragonCon: Speakeasy ATL

Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

YouTube's New Lawsuit Shows Just How Far Copyright Trolls Have to Go Before They're Stopped

The DOJ Should Keep Its Historic Role Guarding Competition and Innovation in the Music Business

Communities Across the Country Reject Automated License Plate Readers

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

Don't Renew Section 215 Indefinitely

IPANDETEC Rates Panama’s ISPs in its First ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? Report

Court Rules That “Patent Troll” is Opinion, Not Defamation

IFLA WLIC: Open Access from an Ethical and Legal Aspect

IFLA WLIC: Twenty Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement

EFF Calls on California to End Vendor-Driven ALPR Training

A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition

Victory! California Supreme Court Blocks Sweeping Search Condition of Minors’ Electronic Devices and Social Media Accounts

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