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Event | March 26, 2015

OFC 2015

Thursday, 26 March13:00 - 15:00Room: 411Organizers: Pat Iannone; Bell Labs, USA; Rich Linke; Aluben Research LLC, USANetwork neutrality-related regulatory decisions, or the lack thereof, will impact not only the business landscape for internet service providers (ISPs), content providers, and application innovators, but will have a profound effect on the user...

Event | March 23, 2015

Article 19: A Global Perspective of Freedom of Expression

EFF attorney Kurt Opsahl will be speaking on a panel on "Internet; Talking about the public sphere" at the Article19.org conference in Mexico City.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental pillar for the construction and performance of a truly democratic society. The existence of a legal frame that...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 20, 2015

The Foilies Round 4: Retaliation and Consequences

Open government advocates file requests for public records because it’s not only our right, but our duty as citizens to find out what the government is doing in our name, how officials are spending our tax dollars, what kinds of mistakes they’re making, what problems our communities face, and how...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Cindy Cohn | March 19, 2015

Twenty-four Million Wikipedia Users Can’t Be Wrong: Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance

Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on behalf of Wikimedia and a number of other media and human rights organizations. We applaud all of those involved in bringing the case. It adds another avenue of...
Event | March 25, 2015

CSPRI's University Seminar on electronic surveillance and national security

CSPRI's University Seminar will feature a debate on electronic surveillance and national security on Wednesday, March 25. The format of the debate itself will be similar to that used by Intelligence Squared, where the "winner" is deemed to be the side that has changed the most minds. This should be...

Event | April 18, 2015

Security and Development Hackathon

Riscure, ThoughtWorks and EFF are organizing a twin track, full day hackathon for the openwireless router on April 18, 2015 at Riscure's San Francisco office. The event is being sponsored by the prpl Foundation, who are supporting OpenWRT developers through the prplwrt project. Join employees from Riscure, ThoughtWorks and EFF...

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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 19, 2015

The Foilies Round 3: Ridiculous Redactions and Records Errata

Government agencies sure love their black markers.For transparency activists, receiving overly redacted documents is a guilty pleasure. Sure, we'd all prefer to have the records unmarred by secrecy (except for narrow occasions, such as when the black-outs legitimately protect people's privacy), but sometimes those redactions are the first indication that...

Event | March 24, 2015

Video Games, Modding, and the Law

Video gamers are often at the forefront of new technologies, whether they are playing on consoles, computers, or mobile devices. Sometimes, they play through games in the manner intended by game publishers. But, other times, they seek to use games as platforms for new forms of creative expression or change...

Event | April 19, 2015

EFF at Security BSidesSF


Join EFF at the 6th annual Security B-Sides San Francisco! Catch an array of talks on the cutting edge of infosec, including an "Ask EFF" panel on Sunday at 2:00 pm. The very reasonable event registration will benefit EFF's online freedom work.
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