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Deeplinks Blog by Julie Samuels | February 24, 2014

42 State Attorneys General Support Patent Reform

In the latest blow to patent trolls, 42 state and territorial attorneys general—that's right, 42!—wrote a letter today calling on the Senate to pass meaningful patent reform. As the AGs write:
So-called patent trolls stifle innovation and harm our economy by making dubious claims of patent infringement and...

Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | February 24, 2014

U.S. Trade Rep on the Charm Offensive—Slight Tweaks to Secret TPP Process is Far From Enough

The U.S. Trade Rep announced last week that it will create a new “Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee,” in an attempt to allow public interest groups to provide more input into U.S. proposals in trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). That aim is important, and...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | February 24, 2014

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations.
The unfolding scandal is soaked in irony: Azano is a surveillance evangelist whose...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | February 23, 2014

The Wrong Tool For the Job: Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Creates New Problems

Congress is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a "phone freedom" bill that is supposed to help solve the cell phone unlocking problem. We're all for phone freedom and we wish we could support the bill. Unfortunately, however, the costs for users outweigh the benefits.
For more than...

Deeplinks Blog by Dia Kayyali | February 22, 2014

Legal Community Disturbed About Recent Allegations of Spying on Privileged Communications

The NSA appears to have been involved in the surveillance of privileged attorney-client communications, and the legal community is not happy about it. The New York Times reports that communications between an American law firm and its foreign client may have been among the information one of the NSA’s...

Event | March 7, 2014

Cindy Cohn to Speak at LeadHERship: Symposium on Women's Leadership in Law + Business at UC Berkeley

Join EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn for a discussion on individual challenges facing women as they move towards leadership in law and business. The panel discussion will also include Judge Marsha S. Berzon, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Krystal Bowen, Partner, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton,...

Event | March 18, 2014

Seventh Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration

Join EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel for a discussion of the government's recent positions on Exemption Five of the Freedom of Information Act. The panel discussion will include Daniel Marcus, Professor, Washington College of Law and former Associate Attorney General, Miriam Nisbet, Director, Office of Government Information...

Event | March 10, 2014

They're Watching Us/We're Watching Them: Civil Liberities Online

Recent revelations of government surveillance and corporate data collection are only the latest episodes in an ongoing struggle over the content and meaning of our 'digital and informational civil liberties.' Surveillance and dataveillance have long been with us, but recent technological advancements and legal decisions have, without a doubt, raised...

Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar | February 20, 2014

White House Makes Good on Patent Reform Promises, More Changes To Come

The White House updated the nation on its commitment to curtail the patent troll problem and tie up some egregious loose ends in our patent system, announcing progress made on all fronts—as well as three new executive actions. While the Innovation Act (and other patent bills) is...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | February 20, 2014

Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

For the last month, Venezuela has been caught up in widespread protests against its government. The Maduro administration has responded by cracking down on what it claims as being foreign interference online. As that social unrest has escalated, the state's censorship has widened: from the removal of television stations from...

Event | March 17, 2014

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M)

Rightscon Decompression and Review
This month, San Francisco hosted Rightscon, the human rights and technology conference organized by Access. We saw many familiar faces there, and thought we'd spend this week's meeting informally talking about lessons learned, questions raised, and what...

Event | June 5, 2014

Personal Democracy Forum (PDF)

EFF's Rainey Reitman and Jillian York will both be speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum.

Event | March 3, 2014

RightsCon Silicon Valley

This March 3-5 at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, Access is bringing the RightsCon summit back to Silicon Valley, where human rights experts, investors, corporate leaders, engineers, activists, and government representatives from around the world work to advance solutions to human rights challenges by concentrating on the possibilities...

Event | March 10, 2014

2014 East West Center International Media Conference - "Challenges of a Free Press"

EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York will be speaking at the East West Center's 2014 conference, "Challenges of a Free Press."

Deeplinks Blog by April Glaser, Seth Schoen | February 19, 2014

Peering into the Soft Underbelly of Net Neutrality

The net neutrality fight is moving in new directions, and quickly. Today FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that the FCC would press forward with new “Open Internet” rules, undeterred by last month’s court decision striking down most of the old ones. Last week, Comcast and Time Warner Cable...

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42 State Attorneys General Support Patent Reform

U.S. Trade Rep on the Charm Offensive—Slight Tweaks to Secret TPP Process is Far From Enough

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

The Wrong Tool For the Job: Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Creates New Problems

Legal Community Disturbed About Recent Allegations of Spying on Privileged Communications

Cindy Cohn to Speak at LeadHERship: Symposium on Women's Leadership in Law + Business at UC Berkeley

Seventh Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration

They're Watching Us/We're Watching Them: Civil Liberities Online

White House Makes Good on Patent Reform Promises, More Changes To Come

Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M)

Personal Democracy Forum (PDF)

RightsCon Silicon Valley

2014 East West Center International Media Conference - "Challenges of a Free Press"

Peering into the Soft Underbelly of Net Neutrality

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