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Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Nate Cardozo | August 12, 2016

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in acquiring and exploiting vulnerabilities and hacking for...

Event | August 13, 2016

Free Bassel Picnic

Bassel Khartabil is a technologist and free culture advocate who has been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities since the beginning of the civil war. His many friends, colleagues and connected organizations, including EFF, have been calling for information on his whereabouts and his release.
Friends and supporters of...

Press Release | August 9, 2016

Hollywood Forces Publishers Worldwide to California Court

San Francisco - Texas resident Matthew Pavlovich yesterday for a second time asked the California Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision requiring him to defend a trade secret case in a California court. Pavlovich, who did not reside in or have any contact with California, has resisted being...

Press Release | August 9, 2016

California Court Cannot Lasso Texas Resident into DVD Case

San Francisco - The California Supreme Court today ruled that a Texas resident who published a software program on the Internet cannot be forced to stand trial in California.
The court found that Matthew Pavlovich, who republished an open source DVD-descrambling software program called DeCSS, will not have to...

Press Release | August 9, 2016

EFF DES CRACKER MACHINE BRINGS HONESTY TO CRYPTO DEBATE

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today raised the level of honesty in crypto politics by revealing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES) is insecure. The U.S. government has long pressed industry to limit encryption to DES (and even weaker forms), without revealing how easy it is...

Press Release | August 9, 2016

EFF Announces 2016 Pioneer Award Winners: Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, Data Protection Activist Max Schrems, the Authors of ‘Keys Under Doormats,’ and the Lawmakers Behind CalECPA

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2016 Pioneer Awards: Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, data protection activist Max Schrems, the authors of the “Keys Under Doormats” report that counters calls to break encryption, and the lawmakers...

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Deeplinks Blog by Ana Acosta, Elliot Harmon | August 9, 2016

Stand Up for Open Access. Stand Up for Diego.


Diego Gomez is a recent biology graduate from the University of Quindío, a small university in Colombia. His research interests are reptiles and amphibians. Since the university where he studied didn’t have a large budget for access to academic databases, he did what any other science grad...

Event | August 27, 2016

California Database Hunt

As of July 1, 2016, local government agencies in California are required to publish an inventory of all the "enterprise systems" they use to store primary records or information on the public. These catalogs not only name the databases, but the type of data they collect and store, the name...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 5, 2016

DRM: You have the right to know what you're buying!

Today, the EFF and a coalition of organizations and individuals asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to explore fair labeling rules that would require retailers to warn you when the products you buy come locked down by DRM ("Digital Rights Management" or "Digital Restrictions Management").
These digital...

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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | August 5, 2016

Join Us for the Great California Database Hunt

Imagine if local governments were like restaurants, where you could pick up a menu of public datasets, read the names and description, then order whatever suits your open data appetite?
This transparency advocate’s fantasy became reality in California on July 1, when a new law took effect. ...

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