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Event | July 27, 2017

How EFF Defends the Future: a Conversation with Rainey Reitman (Livestreamed)

Rainey Reitman, activism director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will join CREDO for a special conversation to discuss how EFF is defending civil liberties and protecting user privacy in the digital world through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. The event will take place at Credo's offices...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 20, 2017

Tell Congress: We Want Trade Transparency Reform Now!

The failed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a lesson in what happens when trade agreements are negotiated in secret. Powerful corporations can lobby for dangerous, restrictive measures, and the public can't effectively bring balance to the process. Now, some members of Congress are seeking to make sure that future trade...

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | July 18, 2017

Librarians Call on W3C to Rethink its Support for DRM

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has called on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider its decision to incorporate digital locks into official HTML standards. Last week, W3C announced its decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—a standard for applying locks to web video—in...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 18, 2017

Do Last Week's European Copyright Votes Show Publishers Have Captured European Politics?

Three European Parliament Committees met during the week of July 10, to give their input on the European Commission's proposal for a new Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. We previewed those meetings last week, expressing our hope that they would not adopt the Commission's harmful proposals....

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | July 18, 2017

Why the Ninth Circuit Got It Wrong on National Security Letters and How We’ll Keep Fighting

In a disappointing opinion issued on Monday, the Ninth Circuit upheld the national security letter (NSL) statute against a First Amendment challenge brought by EFF on behalf of our clients CREDO Mobile and Cloudflare. We applaud our clients’ courage as part of a years-long court battle, conducted largely...

Event | July 26, 2017

Security Researcher Meetup With NTIA Rep on Botnets

The U.S. Department of Commerce is leading a new initiative to ‘identify and promote action by appropriate stakeholders’ to address the evolving threats from distributed, automated attacks. Botnets have evolved to yet again pose a real threat to stability and resilience of the Internet ecosystem. Particularly following the growth of...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | July 18, 2017

Microsoft Bing Reverses Sex-Related Censorship in the Middle East

Imagine trying to do online research on breast cancer, or William S. Burroughs’ famous novel Naked Lunch, only to find that your search results keep coming up blank. This is the confounding situation that faced Microsoft Bing users in the Middle East and North Africa for years, made especially confusing...

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | July 17, 2017

Network Engineers Speak Out for Net Neutrality

Today, a group of over 190 Internet engineers, pioneers, and technologists filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission explaining that the FCC’s plan to roll back net neutrality protections is based on a fundamentally flawed and outdated understanding of how the Internet works.
Signers include current and...

Press Release | July 17, 2017

EFF to FCC: Tossing Net Neutrality Protections Will Set ISPs Free to Throttle, Block, and Censor the Internet for Users

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the FCC to keep in place net neutrality rules, which are essential to prevent cable companies like Comcast and Verizon from controlling, censoring, and discriminating against their subscribers’ favorite Internet content.

In comments submitted today, EFF came out strongly in opposition...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 17, 2017

With Release of NAFTA Negotiating Objectives, Our New Infographic Makes Sense of It All

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has just released its trade negotiating objectives [PDF] for a revision of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. NAFTA is expected to open up a new front in big content's neverending battle for stricter...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz, Sophia Cope | July 17, 2017

CBP Responds to Sen. Wyden: Border Agents May Not Search Travelers’ Cloud Content

Border agents may not use travelers’ laptops, phones, and other digital devices to access and search cloud content, according to a new document by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP wrote this document on June 20, 2017, in response to questions from Sen. Wyden (D-OR). NBC published...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | July 17, 2017

EFF to Minnesota Supreme Court: Sheriff Must Release Emails Documenting Biometric Technology Use

A Minnesota sheriff’s office must release emails showing how it uses biometric technology so that the community can understand how invasive it is, EFF argued in a brief filed in the Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday.
The case, Webster v. Hennepin County, concerns a particularly egregious failure to respond...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | July 14, 2017

Australian PM Calls for End-to-End Encryption Ban, Says the Laws of Mathematics Don't Apply Down Under

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", said Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today. He has been rightly mocked for this nonsense claim, that foreshadows moves to require online messaging providers to provide law enforcement with...

Event | July 26, 2017

The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age: Data Privacy and the Third Party Doctrine

Who has rights to our data, and what information does the Fourth Amendment protect? As the Supreme Court prepares to rule for the first time on search warrants for historical cell site data in Carpenter v. United States, these questions have risen to the forefront of legal conversation. Join the...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | July 14, 2017

California's Top Newspapers Endorse Broadband Privacy Bill

Broadband privacy? Say what? That was probably what you were asking yourself in March when you read about Congress’s vote to repeal privacy rules for your Internet provider. If you were paying attention—and you should in an era where free press, voter privacy, and other constitutional rights are...

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How EFF Defends the Future: a Conversation with Rainey Reitman (Livestreamed)

Tell Congress: We Want Trade Transparency Reform Now!

Librarians Call on W3C to Rethink its Support for DRM

Do Last Week's European Copyright Votes Show Publishers Have Captured European Politics?

Why the Ninth Circuit Got It Wrong on National Security Letters and How We’ll Keep Fighting

Security Researcher Meetup With NTIA Rep on Botnets

Microsoft Bing Reverses Sex-Related Censorship in the Middle East

Network Engineers Speak Out for Net Neutrality

EFF to FCC: Tossing Net Neutrality Protections Will Set ISPs Free to Throttle, Block, and Censor the Internet for Users

With Release of NAFTA Negotiating Objectives, Our New Infographic Makes Sense of It All

CBP Responds to Sen. Wyden: Border Agents May Not Search Travelers’ Cloud Content

EFF to Minnesota Supreme Court: Sheriff Must Release Emails Documenting Biometric Technology Use

Australian PM Calls for End-to-End Encryption Ban, Says the Laws of Mathematics Don't Apply Down Under

The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age: Data Privacy and the Third Party Doctrine

California's Top Newspapers Endorse Broadband Privacy Bill

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