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Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | October 11, 2013

New Report Finds Obama’s Policies Threaten an Independent Press

The Committee to Protect Journalists has released its first-ever special report on freedom of the press in the United States. For many years, CPJ has documented attacks on journalists in many countries around the world. The report focused on how policies and practices of the Obama administration disrupt relationships...

Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar | October 10, 2013

Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License

Dear Google,
There has been quite a bit of news lately that you have applied for a patent on bill splitting. It's a helpful tool—we've all been to restaurants or lived with housemates and have needed a convenient way of calculating and tracking who owes what....

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | October 10, 2013

More Than 30 Organizations Unite To Safeguard Canadians’ Privacy Rights Amid Spy Agency Scandal

EFF is joining more than 30 major Canadian organizations to form the largest pro-privacy coalition in Canadian history. With the Canadian Parliament set to resume, the Protect Our Privacy Coalition has banded together to ensure Canadians get effective legal measures to protect their privacy against government...

Press Release | October 10, 2013

EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today withdrew from the Global Network Initiative (GNI), citing a fundamental breakdown in confidence that the group's corporate members are able to speak freely about their own internal privacy and security systems in the wake of the National Security Agency...

Deeplinks Blog by Trevor Timm | October 9, 2013

The Government Shutdown is Great News For Those Who Don’t Want NSA Accountability

While many federal employees and the American public have been negatively affected by the US government shutdown, there is one group of people who can probably take solace: those who need to be held to account for the NSA surveillance scandal.
Before the shutdown, there were two allegedly...

Deeplinks Blog by Jim Tyre | October 9, 2013

Supreme Court of India - Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails Must Be Used

Three years ago, I wrote of the controversy surrounding the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in India. A study by 2010 EFF Pioneer Award winner Hari Prasad and others showed that the EVMs could be hacked. For his troubles, Prasad was charged criminally for alleged theft of...

Deeplinks Blog by Lee Tien | October 8, 2013

EFF Submits Comments to 'Independent' Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Review Group

There's an eerie similarity between the National Security Agency spying uncovered in the 1970s, which included the intelligence community spying on political activists and the NSA's collection of every single international telegram being sent from the United States, and the NSA spying today. Back then, after...

Deeplinks Blog by Dan Auerbach | October 8, 2013

How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations

We've long suspected that the NSA, the world's premiere spy agency, was pretty good at breaking into computers. But now, thanks to an article by security expert Bruce Schneier—who is working with the Guardian to go through the Snowden documents—we have a much more detailed view of how the...

Event | October 11, 2013

The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Hollywood's Dramatization of the WikiLeaks Story,

Hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Note: Time changed! From the halls of Washington to the streets of Tunis, the names Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have proven not only impossible to ignore, but cataclysmic in both the worlds of politics and journalism. Now...

Event | October 16, 2013

The NSA's Domestic Spying Program and What Every Defense Attorney Needs to Know

Please join EFF and the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association of Northern California for a luncheon buffet and discussion on NSA surveillance. The event will feature EFF legal director Cindy Cohn, who will discuss EFF's litigation regarding the governments' warrantless domestic surveillance program.

Details:
Wednesday Oct 16, 2013
11:30-12:00...

Event | October 24, 2013

Ben Reitman Historical Event

The Jane Addams Hull House Museum is hosting an evening celebrating the life and work of Dr. Ben Reitman. Dr. Ben Reitman (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor who was also a steadfast free speech advocate. Rainey Reitman, now activism director at EFF and the great...

Event | October 25, 2013

Citizen Lobby Day Against Mass Surveillance

On the weekend of October 26 — the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA PATRIOT Act — thousands of people from across the political spectrum will unite in Washington, D.C. to take a stand against unconstitutional surveillance. Please join EFF in D.C. for a day of grassroots training...

Event | October 26, 2013

Stopwatching.us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | October 7, 2013

Uma Cervejinha Na Praça Com a EFF?

Praça São Salvador - Laranjeiras Rio de Janeiro - RJ 22210-080
Friday, October 11th at 7:00 pm
(Português abaixo)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proud to host our next happy hour in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. EFF International Team, Danny O'Brien and ...

Event | November 15, 2013

McGill University - The Participatory Condition

EFF's Jillian York will participate in the "The Participatory Condition," an international colloquium hosted by McGill University.

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New Report Finds Obama’s Policies Threaten an Independent Press

Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License

More Than 30 Organizations Unite To Safeguard Canadians’ Privacy Rights Amid Spy Agency Scandal

EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

The Government Shutdown is Great News For Those Who Don’t Want NSA Accountability

Supreme Court of India - Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails Must Be Used

EFF Submits Comments to 'Independent' Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Review Group

How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations

The Fifth Estate v. WikiLeaks: Unraveling Fact from Fiction in Hollywood's Dramatization of the WikiLeaks Story,

The NSA's Domestic Spying Program and What Every Defense Attorney Needs to Know

Ben Reitman Historical Event

Citizen Lobby Day Against Mass Surveillance

Stopwatching.us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance

Uma Cervejinha Na Praça Com a EFF?

McGill University - The Participatory Condition

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