Read the original article: On the Road to Victory for Human Rights in Mexico! Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights has taken a crucial step towards averting a human rights catastrophe, asking Mexico’s Supreme Court to assess the constitutionality of…
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Final Weekend for EFF’s 30th Anniversary Challenge Coin
Read the original article: Final Weekend for EFF’s 30th Anniversary Challenge Coin To celebrate the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th anniversary, both new and upgrading recurring supporters can claim a first-of-its-kind EFF challenge coin as a token of thanks. These coins…
EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia High School Expressing Concern Over Restriction to Students’ Free Speech
Read the original article: EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia High School Expressing Concern Over Restriction to Students’ Free Speech The First Amendment includes the right to use technology to create and preserve images, and otherwise collect information, of newsworthy…
Victory! EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
Read the original article: Victory! EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private…
No to Blockchain Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results for Entry to Public Spaces
Read the original article: No to Blockchain Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results for Entry to Public Spaces An ill-conceived California bill endorses a blockchain-based system that would turn COVID-19 test results into permanent records that could be used to grant…
Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State’s Broadband Future
Read the original article: Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State’s Broadband Future Two bills before the California legislature in its final month of session, S.B. 1130 and A.B. 570, chart very different courses for the state’s broadband infrastructure…
FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security
Read the original article: FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security Despite widespread complaints about its effects on human rights, the Brazilian Senate has fast-tracked the approval of…
Digital Rights On the Ground: The View from EFF’s Intake Desk
Read the original article: Digital Rights On the Ground: The View from EFF’s Intake Desk If you’re familiar with EFF, you know that we do our best to defend and promote digital civil liberties through a powerful blend of impact…
Sen. Merkley Leads on Biometric Privacy
Read the original article: Sen. Merkley Leads on Biometric Privacy Businesses across the world are harvesting and monetizing our biometrics without our knowledge or consent. For example, Clearview AI extracted faceprints from three billion people, and now it sells face-matching…
TikTok Ban: A Seed of Genuine Security Concern Wrapped in a Thick Layer of Censorship
Read the original article: TikTok Ban: A Seed of Genuine Security Concern Wrapped in a Thick Layer of Censorship It is ironic that, while purporting to protect America from China’s authoritarian government, President Trump is threatening to ban the TikTok…
Supporting Digital Freedom at the (Virtual) Summer Security Conferences
Read the original article: Supporting Digital Freedom at the (Virtual) Summer Security Conferences During a typical year, EFF staff members would be headed to Las Vegas to present our latest work to the world and ensure legal support for computer security…
EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed
Read the original article: EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the…
What Really Does and Doesn’t Work for Fair Use in the DMCA
Read the original article: What Really Does and Doesn’t Work for Fair Use in the DMCA On July 28, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held another in its year-long series of hearings on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).…
In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’ Off-Campus Social Media Speech
Read the original article: In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’ Off-Campus Social Media Speech The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an historic opinion in B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, upholding the free…
The PACT Act Is Not The Solution To The Problem Of Harmful Online Content
Read the original article: The PACT Act Is Not The Solution To The Problem Of Harmful Online Content The Senate Commerce Committee’s Tuesday hearing on the PACT Act and Section 230 was a refreshingly substantive bipartisan discussion about the thorny…
A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law
Read the original article: A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence…
Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico’s Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age
Read the original article: Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico’s Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age Mexico’s new copyright law was rushed through Congress without adequate debate or consultation, and that’s a problem, because the law —…
Mexico’s New Copyright Law Undermines Mexico’s National Sovereignty, Continuing Generations of Unfair “Fair Trade Deals” Between the USA and Latin America
Read the original article: Mexico’s New Copyright Law Undermines Mexico’s National Sovereignty, Continuing Generations of Unfair “Fair Trade Deals” Between the USA and Latin America Earlier this month, Mexico’s Congress hastily imported most of the US copyright system into Mexican…
Turkey’s New Internet Law Is the Worst Version of Germany’s NetzDG Yet
Read the original article: Turkey’s New Internet Law Is the Worst Version of Germany’s NetzDG Yet For years, free speech and press freedoms have been under attack in Turkey. The country has the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer…
Court Denies EFF, ACLU Effort to Unseal Ruling Rejecting DOJ Effort to Break Encryption
Read the original article: Court Denies EFF, ACLU Effort to Unseal Ruling Rejecting DOJ Effort to Break Encryption A federal appeals court last week refused to unseal a court order that reportedly stopped the Justice Department from forcing Facebook to…
Why EFF Doesn’t Support California Proposition 24
Read the original article: Why EFF Doesn’t Support California Proposition 24 This November, Californians will be called upon to vote on a ballot initiative called the California Privacy Rights Act, or Proposition 24. EFF does not support it; nor does…
When the U.S. Patent Office Won’t Do Its Job, Congress Should Step In
Read the original article: When the U.S. Patent Office Won’t Do Its Job, Congress Should Step In When people get sued by patent trolls, they can fight back in one of two places: a U.S. district court or the Patent…
Mexico’s New Copyright Law: Cybersecurity and Human Rights
Read the original article: Mexico’s New Copyright Law: Cybersecurity and Human Rights This month, Mexico rushed through a new, expansive copyright law without adequate debate or consultation, and as a result, it adopted a national rule that is absolutely unfit…
A Legislative Path to an Interoperable Internet
Read the original article: A Legislative Path to an Interoperable Internet It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like…
California Legislator Introduces Anti-Rural Fiber Legislation That Prioritizes DSL
Read the original article: California Legislator Introduces Anti-Rural Fiber Legislation That Prioritizes DSL Frontier’s bankruptcy has serious consequences for Americans, including 2 million Californians, who are stuck with their deteriorating DSL monopoly. After deciding for years to never upgrade their…
San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
Read the original article: San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) conducted mass surveillance of protesters at the end of May and in early June using a downtown business…
How Mexico’s New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression
Read the original article: How Mexico’s New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression When Mexico’s Congress rushed through a new copyright law as part of its adoption of Donald Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), it largely copy-pasted the US copyright statute,…
EFF to Court: Trump Appointee’s Removal of Open Technology Fund Leadership Is Unlawful
Read the original article: EFF to Court: Trump Appointee’s Removal of Open Technology Fund Leadership Is Unlawful Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined a group of 17 leading…
Mexico’s new copyright law puts human rights in jeopardy
Read the original article: Mexico’s new copyright law puts human rights in jeopardy Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins a coalition of international organizations in publishing an open letter of opposition to Mexico’s new copyright law; the letter lays out…
EFF Joins HOPE 2020
Read the original article: EFF Joins HOPE 2020 EFF staff members will present some of our latest work at 2600 Magazine’s biennial Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference beginning this weekend. HOPE is a diverse hacker event that has drawn…
EFF and 45 Human Rights and Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Federal Law Enforcement Actions Against Protesters in Portland
Read the original article: EFF and 45 Human Rights and Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Federal Law Enforcement Actions Against Protesters in Portland EFF joined dozens of other groups in a letter condemning the behavior of federal law enforcement agencies in…
EFF Welcomes Cybersecurity Expert Tarah Wheeler to Advisory Board
Read the original article: EFF Welcomes Cybersecurity Expert Tarah Wheeler to Advisory Board Cybersecurity policy expert. Security researcher. Women in tech advocate. Entrepreneur. Tarah Wheeler’s expertise and experience encompasses the most pressing issues in tech, and we’re honored to announce…
The PACT Act’s Attempt to Help Internet Users Hold Platforms Accountable Will End Up Hurting Online Speakers
Read the original article: The PACT Act’s Attempt to Help Internet Users Hold Platforms Accountable Will End Up Hurting Online Speakers Recently, nearly every week brings a new effort to undercut or overhaul a key U.S. law—47 U.S.C. § 230…
Appeals Court Decision Fails to Protect Privacy of Cryptocurrency Exchange Users
Read the original article: Appeals Court Decision Fails to Protect Privacy of Cryptocurrency Exchange Users Financial records contain a trove of sensitive information about people’s personal lives, beliefs, and affiliations—which is why law enforcement should be required to get a…
After This Week’s Hack, It Is Past Time for Twitter to End-to-End Encrypt Direct Messages
Read the original article: After This Week’s Hack, It Is Past Time for Twitter to End-to-End Encrypt Direct Messages Earlier this week, chaos reigned supreme on Twitter as high-profile public figures—from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos to President Barack Obama—started…
EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy
Read the original article: EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy The European Union’s highest court today made clear—once again—that the US government’s mass surveillance programs are incompatible with the privacy rights of EU…
EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
Read the original article: EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities Atlas of Surveillance Shines Light on Deployment of Cameras, Drones, and More San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in…
The International Trade Commission Is Opening the Door to Abusive Patent Owners and Endangering U.S. Businesses
Read the original article: The International Trade Commission Is Opening the Door to Abusive Patent Owners and Endangering U.S. Businesses The International Trade Commission, or ITC, is a forum that’s meant to protect U.S. industries from unfair trade practices. But in…
EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
Read the original article: EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities Atlas of Surveillance Shines Light on Deployment of Cameras, Drones, and More San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in…
Join EFF’s 30th Anniversary Livestream and Party Like It’s 1990!
Read the original article: Join EFF’s 30th Anniversary Livestream and Party Like It’s 1990! On Friday, July 10, 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation was officially born. It’s safe to say that on that day, co-founders Mitch Kapor and John Perry…
Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test
Read the original article: Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test When you send an email or browse the web, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may track what sites you visit and when, as well as any unencrypted…
Our EU Policy Principles: Platform Liability
Read the original article: Our EU Policy Principles: Platform Liability As the European Union is gearing up for a major reform of the current backbone of the EU’s Internet regulation—the e-Commerce Directive will be replaced by the Digital Services Act…
EFF To Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
Read the original article: EFF To Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA Court Warned That CFAA Threatens Researchers Who Make Our Technologies More Secure Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and leading cybersecurity experts…
Coalition Against Stalkerware Expands Membership
Read the original article: Coalition Against Stalkerware Expands Membership Privacy and security are both team sports, and no one person or organization completely changes the landscape alone. This is why coalition-building is often at the heart of activism. In 2019,…
EFF Joins Coalition Calling On the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules
Read the original article: EFF Joins Coalition Calling On the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules Today, EFF sent a joint letter to European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, highlighting the enormous potential of interoperability to help achieve the EU’s…
EFF Joins Coalition to Call on the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules
Read the original article: EFF Joins Coalition to Call on the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules EFF Joins Coalition to Call on the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules Today, EFF sent a joint letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe…
EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment
Read the original article: EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment Should the police be able to force Google to turn over identifying information on every phone within a certain geographic area—potentially hundreds or thousands of…
Google’s AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards
Read the original article: Google’s AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards Have you ever clicked on a link after googling something, only to find that Google didn’t take you to the actual webpage but to some…
The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech
Read the original article: The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech The day before a committee debate and vote on the EARN IT Act, the bill’s sponsors replaced their bill with an amended version. Here’s their…
Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras
Read the original article: Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras Partnerships Include Agencies Responsible for Over 30% of Fatal Encounters Over the Last Five Years San Francisco – Research by the Electronic Frontier…
Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies
Read the original article: Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies Ring, Amazon’s “smart” doorbell camera company, recently began sharing statistics on how many video requests police departments submit to users, and the…
“Don’t Believe Proven Liars”: The Absolute Minimum Standard of Prudence in Merger Scrutiny
Read the original article: “Don’t Believe Proven Liars”: The Absolute Minimum Standard of Prudence in Merger Scrutiny “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on…
EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information
Read the original article: EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information Special thanks to legal intern Rachel Sommers, who was the lead author of this post. Visa applicants to the United…
EFF Successfully Defends Users’ Right to Challenge Patents and Still Recover Legal Fees
Read the original article: EFF Successfully Defends Users’ Right to Challenge Patents and Still Recover Legal Fees When individuals and companies are wrongly accused of patent infringement, they should be encouraged to stand up and defend themselves. When they win,…
Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act
Read the original article: Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is focused on giving unprecedented…
Your Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn’t Have to Be
Read the original article: Your Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn’t Have to Be Security researchers have been talking about the vulnerabilities in 2G for years. 2G technology, which at one point underpinned the entire cellular communications…
Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition
Read the original article: Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition Cities and states across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so.…
Your Phone is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn’t Have to Be
Read the original article: Your Phone is Vulnerable Because of 2G, But it Doesn’t Have to Be Security researchers have been talking about the vulnerabilities in 2G for years. 2G technology, which at one point underpinned the entire cellular communications…
Egypt’s Crackdown on Free Expression Will Cost Lives
Read the original article: Egypt’s Crackdown on Free Expression Will Cost Lives For years, EFF has been monitoring a dangerous situation in Egypt: journalists, bloggers, and activists have been harassed, detained, arrested, and jailed, sometimes without trial, in increasing numbers…
5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights
Read the original article: 5 Serious Flaws in the New Brazilian “Fake News” Bill that Will Undermine Human Rights The Brazilian Senate is scheduled to make its vote this week on the most recent version of “PLS 2630/2020” the so-called…
Dutch Law Proposes a Wholesale Jettisoning of Human Rights Considerations in Copyright Enforcement
Read the original article: Dutch Law Proposes a Wholesale Jettisoning of Human Rights Considerations in Copyright Enforcement With the passage of last year’s Copyright Directive, the EU demanded that member states pass laws that reduce copyright infringement by internet users…
Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger
Read the original article: Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger EFF Legal Intern Rachel Sommers contributed to this post. When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies,…
EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library
Read the original article: EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library Free, Public-Service Lending Program Threatened by Baseless Copyright Lawsuit San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is joining forces with the law firm…
California Agency Blocks Release of Police Use of Force and Surveillance Training, Claiming Copyright
Read the original article: California Agency Blocks Release of Police Use of Force and Surveillance Training, Claiming Copyright Under a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all law enforcement training materials must be “conspicuously” published on…
Victory! Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance
Read the original article: Victory! Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance The push to minimize the government’s power to track and spy on people with surveillance technology has picked up steam as the Black-led movement against racism and police…
The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something
Read the original article: The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something Right now, we rely on secure technologies like never before—to cope with the pandemic, to organize and march in the streets,…
The House Has a Universal Fiber Broadband Plan We Should Get Behind
Read the original article: The House Has a Universal Fiber Broadband Plan We Should Get Behind America is behind on its transition to a 21st-century, fiber-connected Internet with no plan for how to fix the problem. Until today. For the…
Brazil’s Fake News Bill Would Dismantle Crucial Rights Online and is on a Fast Track to Become Law
Read the original article: Brazil’s Fake News Bill Would Dismantle Crucial Rights Online and is on a Fast Track to Become Law Despite widespread complaints about its effects on free expression and privacy, Brazilian Congress is moving forward in its…
Groundbreaking Community-Building Technologists Join EFF’s Board of Directors
Read the original article: Groundbreaking Community-Building Technologists Join EFF’s Board of Directors EFF Is Proud to Welcome Anil Dash and James Vasile San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the two newest members of its…
Pride Resources for Activism in Digital and Physical Spaces
Read the original article: Pride Resources for Activism in Digital and Physical Spaces In June, people honor one of the key events that ushered the era of LGBTQIA+ Pride—Stonewall—during which Black and Brown trans and queer people led a riot…
Victory: Indiana Supreme Court Rules that Police Can’t Force Smartphone User to Unlock Her Phone
Read the original article: Victory: Indiana Supreme Court Rules that Police Can’t Force Smartphone User to Unlock Her Phone In courts across the country, EFF has been arguing that the police cannot constitutionally require you to unlock your phone or…
OTF’s Work Is Vital for a Free and Open Internet
Read the original article: OTF’s Work Is Vital for a Free and Open Internet Keeping the internet open, free, and secure requires eternal vigilance and the constant cooperation of freedom defenders all over the web and the world. Over the…
Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store
Read the original article: Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store Basecamp’s new paid email service, HEY, has been making headlines recently in a very public fight with Apple over their App Store terms…
California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang Database
Read the original article: California Coalition Calls for Moratorium on State Gang Database EFF has joined a coalition of civil rights, immigration, and criminal justice reform organizations to demand the California Department of Justice (CADOJ) place an immediate moratorium on…
Staying Private While Using Google Docs for Legal & Mutual Aid Work
Read the original article: Staying Private While Using Google Docs for Legal & Mutual Aid Work Regardless of your opinion about Google, their suite of collaborative document editing tools provides a powerful resource in this tumultuous time. Across the country,…
Victory! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression
Read the original article: Victory! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression EFF and Partners Said the Bill Would Have Empowered Government and Platforms to Censor Online Speech Paris, France—In a victory for…
Two Different Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share A Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech
Read the original article: Two Different Proposals to Amend Section 230 Share A Similar Goal: Damage Online Users’ Speech Whether we know it or not, all Internet users rely on multiple online services to connect, engage, and express themselves online.…
Victory! New York’s City Council Passes the POST Act
Read the original article: Victory! New York’s City Council Passes the POST Act After three years of organizing by a broad coalition of civil society organizations and community members, New York’s City Council has passed the POST Act with an…
California Privacy Advocates Sue Vallejo Over Cell-Site Simulator
Read the original article: California Privacy Advocates Sue Vallejo Over Cell-Site Simulator Special thanks to legal intern Gillian Vernick, who was lead author of this post. The Vallejo Police Department was warned: by rushing to purchase a cell-site simulator without…
Our EU Policy Principles: Interoperability
Read the original article: Our EU Policy Principles: Interoperability As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In…
VICTORY: Zoom Will Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Its Users
Read the original article: VICTORY: Zoom Will Offer End-to-End Encryption to All Its Users We are glad to see Zoom’s announcement today that it plans to offer end-to-end encryption to all its users, not just those with paid subscriptions. Zoom…
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Cell Phone Surveillance at Protests
Read the original article: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Cell Phone Surveillance at Protests As uprisings over police brutality and institutionalized racism have swept over the country, many people are facing the full might of law enforcement weaponry and…
Nominations Open for 2020 Barlows!
Read the original article: Nominations Open for 2020 Barlows! Nominations are now open for the 2020 Barlows to be presented at EFF’s 29th Annual Pioneer Award Ceremony. Established in 1992, the Pioneer Award Ceremony recognizes leaders who are extending freedom…
Bracelets, Beacons, Barcodes: Wearables in the Global Response to COVID-19
Read the original article: Bracelets, Beacons, Barcodes: Wearables in the Global Response to COVID-19 In their efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic, governments around the world are rolling out body-worn devices (“wearables”) to assist in fighting the virus.…
Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs, Big Tech, and Big Media Work Together Against Users
Read the original article: Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs, Big Tech, and Big Media Work Together Against Users HBO Max is incredible. Not because it is good, but because of how many problems with the media landscape it…
EFF Asks Virginia Supreme Court to Rein in Indiscriminate Collection and Storage of License Plate Information
Read the original article: EFF Asks Virginia Supreme Court to Rein in Indiscriminate Collection and Storage of License Plate Information Like law enforcement agencies across the country, the police in Fairfax, Virginia, use automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to indiscriminately…
Medical Device Repair Again Threatened With Copyright Claims
Read the original article: Medical Device Repair Again Threatened With Copyright Claims Medical providers face countless challenges in responding to the COVID pandemic, and copyright shouldn’t have to be one of them. Hundreds of volunteers came together to create the…
IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is Microsoft?
Read the original article: IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is Microsoft? Activism is working. Both on the streets as people protest to end racist and violent policing, and among civil liberties organizations who have been…
Will Zoom Bring Encryption to the People Who Need It Most?
Read the original article: Will Zoom Bring Encryption to the People Who Need It Most? This morning, EFF and Mozilla called on Zoom to make their upcoming end-to-end encryption feature available to all 300 million of its users. We published…
The Winds Are Shifting on NYPD Transparency
Read the original article: The Winds Are Shifting on NYPD Transparency There is a range of problems with the NYPD, and transparency is one. In the last week, we have seen too many examples of what happens without it. NYPD…
Digital Security Advice for Journalists Covering the Protests Against Police Violence
Read the original article: Digital Security Advice for Journalists Covering the Protests Against Police Violence This guide is an overview of digital security considerations specific to journalists covering protests. For EFF’s comprehensive guide to digital security, including advice for activists…
You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police
Read the original article: You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police Like the rest of the world, we are horrified by the videos of George Floyd’s murder. Once again, police brutality was documented by brave bystanders exercising…
EFF, ACLU File Lawsuit to Stop Los Angeles From Collecting Real-Time Tracking Data on Citizens’ Rental Scooters
Read the original article: EFF, ACLU File Lawsuit to Stop Los Angeles From Collecting Real-Time Tracking Data on Citizens’ Rental Scooters City's Collection of Riders' Locations, Routes Violates Fourth Amendment Los Angeles—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined the ACLU…
New Hasty Attempt to Tackle Fake News in Brazil Heavily Strikes Privacy and Free Expression
Read the original article: New Hasty Attempt to Tackle Fake News in Brazil Heavily Strikes Privacy and Free Expression The Brazilian Senate rushes to approve a draft bill that seriously undermines privacy and free expression. Named as the “Fake News…
How to Identify Visible (and Invisible) Surveillance at Protests
Read the original article: How to Identify Visible (and Invisible) Surveillance at Protests The full weight of U.S. policing has descended upon protesters across the country as people take to the streets to denounce the police killings of Breonna Taylor,…
Why Slow Networks Really Cost More Than Fiber
Read the original article: Why Slow Networks Really Cost More Than Fiber A myth often pushed by incumbents who want to forestall universal fiber is that there is a high “cost” of fiber and cheaper alternatives. They’ll point to figures…
Technical Excellence and Scale
Read the original article: Technical Excellence and Scale In America, we hope that businesses will grow by inventing amazing things that people love – rather than through deep-pocketed catch-and-kill programs in which every competitor is bought and tamed before it…
Technical excellence and scale
Read the original article: Technical excellence and scale In America, we hope that businesses will grow by inventing amazing things that people love – rather than through deep-pocketed catch-and-kill programs in which every competitor is bought and tamed before it…
EFF Offering Assistance with Attorney Referrals for Protesters
Read the original article: EFF Offering Assistance with Attorney Referrals for Protesters In light of the current protests across the country against racism and police brutality, we want to call attention to EFF’s attorney referral services. We are opening up…
Protecting Your Privacy if Your Phone is Taken Away
Read the original article: Protecting Your Privacy if Your Phone is Taken Away Your phone is your life. It’s where you communicate, get your news, take pictures and videos of your loved ones, relax and play games, and find a…