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Event | September 19, 2016

How Should We Govern Government Hacking?

EFF Staff Attorney Andrew Crocker will be part of a discussion hosted by New America’s Open Technology Institute featuring a wide range of experts with backgrounds in government, industry, civil society and academia to tackle the issue of government hacking — and the question of when and how the government...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | September 12, 2016

Tell Justin Trudeau to Fight for Web Developer Saeed Malekpour

Imagine: you're a programmer who loves to code. You're studying at college, but you're also working as a freelance web developer. In what spare time you have, you polish and release your best work under an open source license, for the world to use. Your father has grown sick and...

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | September 8, 2016

Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM

UPDATE (9/8/16): An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly suggested that no authorized audio devices or connectors that used the Lightning port existed prior to yesterday’s announcement. It also implied that the only way to achieve lossless sound quality on an iPhone was through a wired connection, which was...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | September 7, 2016

Content Companies Demand Total Control of Set-Top Boxes at FCC

It has always been about gaining control over technology and never about copyright law.
Major TV producers have finally said what they really want from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in exchange for breaking up the cable companies' monopoly over set-top boxes. As they continue to push fake...

Event | October 7, 2016

EFF at Das ist Netzpolitik!

EFF's Jillian York will speak about the regulation of hate speech at the third edition of Das ist Netzpolitik!

Legal Case

Microsoft v. Department of Justice

Microsoft sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) in April 2016 challenging portions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that allow the government to serve a warrant on the company to get access to customers’ emails and other information stored on remote servers—all without telling users their data is being...

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