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Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | October 21, 2014

Open Letter from Diego Gomez: "Access to Knowledge Is a Global Right"

The progress of knowledge is fueled by people who dedicate their lives to a field—to read, examine, and absorb everything they can out of passionate intellectual curiosity. Diego Gomez is one of these individuals, and is dedicated to the conservation of reptiles and amphibians.

Unfortunately,...

Deeplinks Blog by Dia Kayyali | October 20, 2014

The Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama

We’ve filed our reply brief in the appeal of Smith v. Obama, our case challenging the NSA’s mass telephone records collection on behalf of Idaho nurse Anna Smith. The case will be argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal on December 8, 2014 in Seattle, and the...

Deeplinks Blog by Hanni Fakhoury, Dia Kayyali | October 20, 2014

EFF Launches Updated Know Your Rights Guide

In the U.S., if the police come knocking at your door, the Constitution offers you some protection. But the Constitution is just a piece of paper—if you don’t know how to assert your rights. And even if you do assert your rights…what happens next? That answer may seem complicated, but...

Deeplinks Blog by Yana Welinder | October 20, 2014

Free as in Open Access and Wikipedia

This is a guest post by Yana Welinder, Legal Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation and Non-Residential Fellow at Stanford CIS. If you have comments on this post, you can contact her on Twitter or her Wikimedia talk page.
Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites are...

Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar | October 20, 2014

Celebrating Open Access Week: Research Should Be Free, Available, and Open

Welcome to the eighth annual Open Access Week! We're joining an international community—researchers and students, doctors and patients, librarians and activists—to celebrate free and open access to knowledge. This is also a time to discuss the barriers and costs of keeping research and information locked up with restrictive licenses...

Deeplinks Blog by April Glaser | October 18, 2014

What Are You Doing For Open Access Week?

This Monday, October 20 marks the first day of Open Access Week, an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the dangerous costs of keeping knowledge locked behind publisher paywalls. This year's theme is Generation Open.
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Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | October 17, 2014

EFF Response to FBI Director Comey's Speech on Encryption

FBI Director James Comey gave a speech yesterday reiterating the FBI's nearly twenty-year-old talking points about why it wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it. Here's EFF's response:
The FBI should not be in the business of trying to convince companies...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | October 17, 2014

New ODNI Report Doesn’t Address Mass Surveillance, Provides "Flexibility" to Skirt Privacy Commitments

Earlier today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released an optimistically titled report Safeguarding the Personal Information of all People. This is basically a status update from ODNI on how they are doing in implementing Presidential Policy Directive 28, which among other things was supposed...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | October 17, 2014

EFF to Patent Office: There’s Nothing Wrong With Throwing Out Bad Patents

Earlier this year, Randall Rader, then Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, called a group of administrative patent judges “death squads.” What had these judges done to deserve such savage criticism? They had done exactly what Congress intended: found some bad patents invalid. This week EFF filed...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | October 17, 2014

Cyber-Espionage and Trade Agreements: An Ill-Fitting and Dangerous Combination

Yesterday's leak of a May 2014 draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement revealed the addition of new text criminalizing the misuse of trade secrets through "computer systems", as mentioned in our previous post about the leak. This is a significant revelation, because we also know that...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm, Maira Sutton | October 16, 2014

Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals—and New Threats Arise

Today Wikileaks published a new draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)’s intellectual property chapter. This draft text, from May 2014, gives us another look into the current state of negotiations over this plurilateral trade agreement’s copyright provisions since another draft was leaked last year. And what we’re seeing...

Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | October 15, 2014

New Report Finds Users Want Copyright to Respect Creators, Free Expression, and Democratic Rulemaking

Canadian digital rights organization, OpenMedia, released a copyright report today that crowdsourced input from users from around the world. Their survey asked users to express their thoughts about copyright and to determine what issues they would like policymakers to prioritize in constructing innovation policy domestically and internationally. The process...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | October 15, 2014

Is NY DFS Backing Off Its Attack on Bitcoin Developers? The Devil Will Be In The Details.

Last night, New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawksy gave a speech at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law in which he reportedly backed down from the threat of forcing software developers who innovate around Bitcoin to obtain licenses. According to Coindesk, Lawksy said:
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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | October 15, 2014

Civil Liberties Groups Appeal Ruling Over Automatic License Plate Reader Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California are taking the fight over automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data to the next level by asking the California Court of Appeal to rule that the public has a right to know how Los Angeles cops are tracking...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | October 15, 2014

Beware the BitLicense: New York’s Virtual Currency Regulations Invade Privacy and Hamper Innovation

With assistance from Marcia HofmannWhat if you picked up a cup of coffee on your way to work and paid $2.00 in cash, only to have the man behind the counter request your home address?"My home address?" you might ask. "Yes," he might reply, "And your full legal name....

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Open Letter from Diego Gomez: "Access to Knowledge Is a Global Right"

The Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama

EFF Launches Updated Know Your Rights Guide

Free as in Open Access and Wikipedia

Celebrating Open Access Week: Research Should Be Free, Available, and Open

What Are You Doing For Open Access Week?

EFF Response to FBI Director Comey's Speech on Encryption

New ODNI Report Doesn’t Address Mass Surveillance, Provides "Flexibility" to Skirt Privacy Commitments

EFF to Patent Office: There’s Nothing Wrong With Throwing Out Bad Patents

Cyber-Espionage and Trade Agreements: An Ill-Fitting and Dangerous Combination

Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals—and New Threats Arise

New Report Finds Users Want Copyright to Respect Creators, Free Expression, and Democratic Rulemaking

Is NY DFS Backing Off Its Attack on Bitcoin Developers? The Devil Will Be In The Details.

Civil Liberties Groups Appeal Ruling Over Automatic License Plate Reader Data

Beware the BitLicense: New York’s Virtual Currency Regulations Invade Privacy and Hamper Innovation

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