Join Citizens, Rise!, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Oakland Privacy for a discussion on net neutrality, privacy and how communities can organize to protect their rights!
The list of companies who exercise their right to ask for judicial review when handed national security letter gag orders from the FBI is growing. Last week, the communications platform Twilio posted two NSLs after the FBI backed down from its gag orders. As Twilio’s accompanying blog post documents,...
The media has a crucial role to play in exposing how police are invading privacy through new technologies, and the alternative press has long been the standard bearers. At the 2018 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Digital Conference, EFF Investigative Researcher Dave Maass will provide an overview of surveillance tech and...
Playboy Entertainment sued Happy Mutants, LLC, the company behind acclaimed website Boing Boing. Playboy accused Boing Boing of copyright infringement for reporting on a historical collection of Playboy centerfolds and linking to a third-party site.
Boing Boing began life as a zine in 1988 before moving to the web...
If you watched this year’s Super Bowl, you might have seen an advertisement for Dodge Ram featuring a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. voiceover. To criticize the ad, and to show how antithetical it was to King’s views, Current Affairs magazine created a new version. The ...
Last week’s BMG v. Cox decision has gotten a lot of attention for its confusing take on secondary infringement liability, but commentators have been too quick to dismiss the implications for the DMCA safe harbor. Internet service providers are still not copyright...
UPDATE Feb. 14, 2018: Today, President Trump endorsed Sen. Grassley's bill on border and immigration issues (H.R. 2579). EFF opposes it. Like many of its predecessors, this bill would expand invasive surveillance on Americans and foreigners alike, with biometric screening, social media snooping, drones, and automatic license plates...
A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Data Privacy for Activists *** Please note that this meeting is on the 3rd TUESDAY because of the holiday on Monday! ***
Data privacy is important to everyone...
The State of Georgia must decide: will it be a hub of technological and online media innovation, or will it be the state that criminalized terms of service violations?
Will it support security research that makes us all safer, or will they chill the ability of Georgia’s infosec...
Although a federal appeals court this week agreed to dismiss a case alleging that Twitter provided material support for terrorists in the form of accounts and direct messaging services, the court left the door open for similar lawsuits to proceed in the future. This is troubling because the threat of...
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real name: the Super Bowl.The NFL is infamous for coming down...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its “Catalog of Missing Devices”—a project that illustrates the gadgets that could and should exist, if not for bad copyright laws that prevent innovators from creating the cool new tools that could enrich our lives.
“The law that...
Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon, Jeremy Gillula | February 1, 2018
Last week AT&T has decided it’s good business to advocate for an “Internet Bill of Rights.” Of course, that catchy name doesn’t in any way mean that what AT&T wants is a codified list of rights for Internet users. No, what AT&T wants is to keep a firm hold on...
