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Security Experts Call on Tech Companies to Defend Against Surveillance

Open Letter to Tech Companies Includes 10 Principles to Protect Users From NSA Sabotage
In the past nine months, our trust in technology companies has been badly shaken. Today, in collaboration with prominent security researchers and technologists, EFF presents an open letter to technology companies, urging them to protect...

Speakeasy: Warsaw, Poland


Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Panoptykon Foundation for a drink or a bite on Thursday, March 6th in Warsaw, Poland! Raise a glass with us and discover EFF's latest work protecting digital innovation, privacy, and free expression, and learn more about the continuing fight to defend...

42 State Attorneys General Support Patent Reform

In the latest blow to patent trolls, 42 state and territorial attorneys general—that's right, 42!—wrote a letter today calling on the Senate to pass meaningful patent reform. As the AGs write:
So-called patent trolls stifle innovation and harm our economy by making dubious claims of patent infringement and...

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations.
The unfolding scandal is soaked in irony: Azano is a surveillance evangelist whose...

They're Watching Us/We're Watching Them: Civil Liberities Online

Recent revelations of government surveillance and corporate data collection are only the latest episodes in an ongoing struggle over the content and meaning of our 'digital and informational civil liberties.' Surveillance and dataveillance have long been with us, but recent technological advancements and legal decisions have, without a doubt, raised...

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Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

For the last month, Venezuela has been caught up in widespread protests against its government. The Maduro administration has responded by cracking down on what it claims as being foreign interference online. As that social unrest has escalated, the state's censorship has widened: from the removal of television stations from...

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M)

Rightscon Decompression and Review
This month, San Francisco hosted Rightscon, the human rights and technology conference organized by Access. We saw many familiar faces there, and thought we'd spend this week's meeting informally talking about lessons learned, questions raised, and what...

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