EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel will join the closing session of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, on a panel titled "The Role of GNSS and Space Sensors in “Big Data.”
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury will be at the Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age Symposium organized by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Foundation for Criminal Justice and American University Washington College of Law's Criminal Practitioner Journal.
UPDATED March 12, 2015: Today, the draft bill on Data Retention #Pyrawebs was rejected in the Deputies Chamber, but the fight is not completely over. We will be keeping a close watch on the bill as it returns to the Senate. We were inspired...
Yesterday, a jury found that the 2013 song "Blurred Lines" was an infringement of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" composition from 1977. Following the 7-million-dollar verdict, professional musicians are waking up to a fact that ordinary Internet users have long known: our overbearing copyright laws are a...
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in favor of net neutrality rules last month, and we expect the final version of rules to be released shortly. From all reports, it sounds like the rules generally track what we (and four million Americans!) have been urging over the past year. But...
UPDATE: Both the Massachusetts District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the plaintiffs' lawsuit against Backpage should be dismissed. Both courts agreed with EFF that Section 230 provides broad protection for websites against liability for content posted by their users. Specifically, both courts adopted...
Apple, that’s who. Or Microsoft, or any of the other vendors whose products US government contractors have successfully exploited according to a recent report in the Intercept. While we’re not surprised that the Intelligence Community is actively attempting to develop new spycraft tools and capabilities—that’s their job—we expect them...
Cyber, Cyber, Cyber. The word makes most technical people cringe but it’s all the rage right now in DC and other policy circles. The rallying calls are now familiar and the central pitch is that private entities and networks—the buzzword is “critical infrastructure”—should be strongly incentivized to “share” information...
Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm, Maira Sutton | March 10, 2015
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has built an arsenalof tools to pressure other nations to enact enforcement measures that benefit major entertainment companies such as the members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Since a few...
The Copia Institute is a new, digital-native take on a think tank from Mike Masnick and the team behind Techdirt to provide tools, data and inspiration for tackling major tech business challenges and policy issues. Copia is being introduced with an Inaugural Summit. The Summit is based around group...
Video is an enormous part of the Internet today. At least two thirds of all Internet traffic is streaming video. YouTube is the third most-visited website in the US and the world, and its users add a mind-boggling 300 hours of new content every minute—dwarfing...
This Thursday, the Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies will vote on adata retention mandate—one of the worst freedom-killing bills we've seen so far in Paraguay. The bill, dubbed Pyrawebs, is a big deal: data retention mandates are a disproportionate measure that should be sorely rejected. It...
Los Angeles - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch will argue the public has a right to know how Los Angeles police are tracking their locations with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) at a hearing before the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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Deeplinks Blog by Hanni Fakhoury, Jamie Williams | March 9, 2015
Ugly facts often make bad law. But it's important to not let opinions about the specific defendants that appear in court influence how the law will be applied to millions of other individuals. That’s why today, EFF filed an amicus brief urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to...
EFF International Rights Director, Katitza Rodriguez will be speaking on anonymity, encryption and the rule of law. The Conference Legal Issues Concerning Hispanic And Latin American Media will provide lawyers from North America and Latin America a unique opportunity to meet and educate one another on the issues...
