TechCrunch Launches Lookup Tool to Help Android Users Know if Their Device Was Compromised by a Family of Stalkerware Apps
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/techcrunch-launches-lookup-tool-help-android-users-know-if-their-device-was
August 26, 2022, 9:28 PM
The scourge of stalkerware—malicious apps used by perpetrators of domestic violence to secretly spy on their victims—is not going unchallenged or unaddressed.
Antivirus makers are increasingly adding stalkerware to the list of apps their products detect on devices; victim support groups help people figure out whether their devices are infected and how to remove the apps; app stores are banning the software and pulling any advertising for it, and law enforcement is investigating and arresting...
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Trans Youths Need Data Sanctuary
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/trans-youths-need-data-sanctuary
August 26, 2022, 7:38 PM
A growing number of states have prohibited transgender youths from obtaining gender-affirming health care. So these youths and their families must travel out-of-state for necessary health care. The states they visit are health care sanctuaries.
These states must also be data sanctuaries for transgender youths.
Earlier this year, the governor of Texas ordered state child welfare officials to launch child abuse investigations against parents whose transgender children received gender-affirming hea...
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Victory! South Carolina Will Not Advance Bill That Banned Speaking About Abortions Online
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/victory-south-carolina-will-not-advance-bill-banned-speaking-about-abortions
August 26, 2022, 8:01 AM
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a half century of precedent supporting the constitutional right to abortion access, numerous states have moved towards making abortion illegal and restricting additional reproductive health services.
In South Carolina, Republican state Senators Richard Cash, Rex F. Rice and Daniel B. Verdin III introduced Senate Bill 1373 seeking to criminalize abortions. The bill would have also made it a crime to “aid, abet, or conspire with someone to procure an abort...
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Federal Judge: Invasive Online Proctoring "Room Scans" Are Unconstitutional
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/federal-judge-invasive-online-proctoring-room-scans-are-also-unconstitutional
August 26, 2022, 12:21 AM
Online proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are biased and ineffective. This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”—was correctly deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. “Room scans” are a common requirement in proctored exams where students are forced to use their device’s camera to give a 360-degree view of everyth...
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How YouTube’s Partnership with London’s Police Force is Censoring UK Drill Music
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/how-youtubes-partnership-londons-police-force-censoring-uks-drill-music
August 25, 2022, 1:25 PM
Originating from the streets of Chicago, drill music is a creative output of inner-city Black youths. It is defined by real life experiences and perspectives, and whilst drill rappers often document gang-related conflict and anti-establishment narratives in their lyrics and music videos, the rap genre is a crucial mouthpiece of artistic and cultural expression. However, London’s police force—the Metropolitan Police, or the Met—have argued that the genre is partly responsible for the rise i...
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Indonesia’s New Draft Criminal Code Restrains Political Dissent
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/indonesias-new-draft-criminal-code-cracks-down-political-dissent
August 23, 2022, 7:56 PM
Even in the face of strong public protest over a set of proposed revisions to criminal laws that infringe Indonesians’ free expression rights, the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights last month sent to the Parliament a new draft of the Criminal Code (CC) that threatens to further chill political dissent and civic participation. In particular, it contains provisions that criminalize defamation and insult of public officials, including the President and members of the government.Indonesi...
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Victory: Government Finally Releases Secretive Court Rulings Sought By EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/victory-government-finally-releases-secretive-court-rulings-sought-eff
August 22, 2022, 11:08 PM
More than seven years after Congress mandated it and EFF sued to pry them loose, the government released seven heavily-redacted but previously classified rulings from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that shed new light on how the secret court interprets key provisions of the laws that authorize mass surveillance.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the redacted versions as required by the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015. More details about the rulings are bel...
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New Proposal Brings Us a Step Closer to Net Neutrality
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/new-proposal-brings-us-step-closer-net-neutrality
August 22, 2022, 10:30 PM
Right now, Americans live in a country where the companies that control our access to the internet face little-to-no oversight. In most states, these companies can throttle your service—or that of, say, a fire department fighting the largest wildfire in state history. They can block a service they don’t like. In addition to charging you for access to the internet, they can charge services for access to you, driving up costs artificially. Making matters worse, most of us have little choice of...
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Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse
August 22, 2022, 7:29 PM
Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their online activity so that police can more productively investigate crimes related to child sexual abuse images, sometimes called CSAM. 
We don’t know much about how the public gets watched in this w...
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Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/code-speech-and-tornado-cash-mixer
August 22, 2022, 5:56 PM
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s placement of “Tornado Cash” as an entity on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanction list raises important questions that are being discussed around the world. OFAC explained its sanction by saying “Tornado Cash (Tornado) is a virtual currency mixer that operates on the Ethereum blockchain and indiscriminately facilitates anonymous transactions by obfuscating their origin, destination, and counterparties, with no attempt to determ...
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Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/tracking-ubiquitous-within-nonprofits-it-doesnt-have-be
August 19, 2022, 7:04 PM
Jump straight to the Online Privacy for Nonprofits Guide to Better Practices
Today, the vast majority of websites and emails that you encounter contain some form of tracking. Third-party cookies let advertisers follow you around the web; tracking pixels in emails confirm whether you’ve opened them; tracking links ensure websites know what you click; some websites even collect data on forms you’ve never actually submitted; still others share detailed interactions, such as appointments you’...
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New Bill Would Bring Back Terrible Software and Genetic Patents
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/new-patent-bill-would-open-floodgates-return-terrible-software-and-genetic-patents
August 18, 2022, 7:53 PM
A recently introduced patent bill would authorize patents on abstract ideas just for including computer jargon, and would even legalize the patenting of human genes. The “Patent Eligibility Restoration Act,” sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), explicitly overrides some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the past 15 years, and would tear down some of the public’s only protections from the worst patent abuses. 
Pro-patent maximalists are trying to label the Tillis bill as a ...
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Where’s EFF? Why EFF Is Sometimes Quiet About Important Cases and Issues
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/wheres-eff-why-eff-sometimes-quiet-about-important-cases-and-issues
August 18, 2022, 6:55 PM
When legal issues light up the Internet, people turn to EFF for answers. Whether it’s attacks on coders' rights, overreaching copyright claims online, or governments' efforts to censor or spy on people, we are often among the first to hear about troubling events online, and we're frequently the first place people turn to, both for help and for a broader understanding. 
So why are there times when we’re quiet about something big that is happening around digital rights?  Why are there times ...
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Arrest of a Stalkerware-maker in Australia Underscores Link Between Stalkerware and Domestic Abuse
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/arrest-stalkerware-maker-australia-underscores-link-between-stalkerware-and
August 17, 2022, 6:55 PM
The ease with which bad actors can find a worldwide market for malicious apps that spy on people’s digital devices is at the center of an Australian Federal Police case against a man who, starting at the age of 15, wrote a stalkerware application and sold it to 14,500 people in 128 countries.Australian police last month arrested the man, now 24, and identified at least 201 of his Australian customers, in an investigation that began in 2017 and involved a dozen law enforcement agencies in Europ...
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Bad Data “For Good”: How Data Brokers Try to Hide Behind Academic Research
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/bad-data-good-how-data-brokers-try-hide-academic-research
August 16, 2022, 7:39 PM
When data broker SafeGraph got caught selling location information on Planned Parenthood visitors, it had a public relations trick up its sleeve. After the company agreed to remove family planning center data from its platforms in response to public outcry, CEO Auren Hoffman tried to flip the narrative: he claimed that his company’s harvesting and sharing of sensitive data was, in fact, an engine for beneficial research on abortion access. He even argued that SafeGraph’s post-scandal removal...
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General Monitoring is not the Answer to the Problem of Online Harms
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/general-monitoring-not-answer-problem-online-harms
August 16, 2022, 7:21 AM
Even if you think that online intermediaries should be more proactive in detecting, deprioritizing, or removing certain user speech, the requirements on intermediaries to review all content before publication—often called “general monitoring” or “upload filtering”—raises serious human rights concerns, both for freedom of expression and for privacy.
General monitoring is problematic both when it is directly required by law and when, though not required, it is effectively mandatory b...
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EFF & ACLU Brief: SFPD Violated Surveillance Law by Spying on Protests for Black Lives
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-brief-sfpd-violated-surveillance-law-spying-protests-black-lives
August 15, 2022, 8:03 PM
Police used private network of 300 surveillance cameras to spy on George Floyd protests in 2020, plaintiffs tell appeals court.SAN FRANCISCO–San Francisco police violated the city’s surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU) told a state appeals court in a brief fi...
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Playing for All the Jelly Beans at the EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/playing-all-jelly-beans-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-def-con
August 14, 2022, 2:49 AM
EFF members come from all over the world to DEF CON to experience the world’s largest computer hacking conference and enjoy what Las Vegas has to offer. This year some of EFF’s supporters combined their love for internet freedom and a good time by competing in the first EFF Benefit Poker Tournament hosted by security expert and EFF advisory board member Tarah Wheeler.
Thirty-five EFF supporters and their friends played in the charity tournament on Friday, August 12 at Bally’s Poker Room. T...
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Online Platforms Should Stop Partnering with Government Agencies to Remove Content
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/online-platforms-should-stop-partnering-government-agencies-remove-content
August 12, 2022, 8:34 AM
Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context, and these concerns are further troubling when the involvement originates with law enforcement. We recently filed a comment with the Meta Oversight Board urging it to treat this issue seriously.
When sites cooperate with government agencies, it leaves the platform inherently biased in favor of the government's favored positions. It gives government entities outsized influence to manipulate content ...
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How California Reproductive Health Workers Can Protect Information They Submit to the Government
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/how-california-reproductive-health-workers-can-protect-information-they-submit
August 10, 2022, 6:56 PM
With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs reversing long-standing rights to abortion access, workers and volunteers for reproductive health clinics must reevaluate the risks they face (also known as a threat model) and take steps to safeguard their personal information–including information they have submitted to the government.
In 2020, nearly 17% of abortions performed in the United States occured in California, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute, and that number is proje...
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Hacking the Future at DEF CON 30
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/hacking-future-def-con-30
August 8, 2022, 4:51 PM
Over nearly three decades, DEF CON grew and evolved into the world's largest hacker conference for computer security professionals, tinkerers, hobbyists, and more. The EFF staff will return to support the community at the Las Vegas summer security conferences—BSides LV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON—for the first time since 2019, making the DC30 theme of "Hacker Homecoming" all the more appropriate. We may still be trying to escape the shadow of the pandemic, but the EFF staff will be availab...
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Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student’s Off-Campus Social Media Post
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/victory-federal-court-upholds-first-amendment-protections-students-campus-social
August 5, 2022, 7:40 PM
EFF intern Emma Plankey contributed to this blog post.
Students should not have to fear expulsion for expressing themselves on social media after school and off-campus, but that is just what happened to the plaintiff in C1.G v. Siegfried. Last month, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the student’s expulsion violated his First Amendment rights. The court’s opinion affirms what we argued in an amicus brief last year.
We strongly support the Tenth Circuit’s holding that schools cannot...
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The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/uks-online-safety-bill-attacks-free-speech-and-encryption
August 5, 2022, 3:48 PM
The UK government has had more than a year to revise its Online Safety Bill into a proposal that wouldn’t harm users’ basic rights. It has failed to do so, and the bill should be scrapped. The current bill is a threat to free expression, and it undermines the encryption that we all rely on for security and privacy online. 
The government intended to advance and vote on the Online Safety Bill last month, but the scheduled vote was postponed until a new Prime Minister of the UK can be chosen....
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Virtual Vegas Member Week 💻💀⚡️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/defense-digital-freedom
August 4, 2022, 7:44 PM
EFF is celebrating the spirit of Las Vegas hacker summer camp this week and—whether you're online or in person—you're invited to support the movement for digital freedom. Technology touches more of your life every day. Whether you’re telling a friend you’re on the way or you’re finding a new doctor, the modern world makes online access increasingly necessary. But law and policy often lag behind, and even threaten, your freedom online. That’s the reason why EFF exists. And you can he...
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Abortion Information Is Coming Down Across Social Media. What Is Happening and What Next.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/abortion-information-coming-down-across-social-media-what-happening-and-what-next
July 28, 2022, 7:58 PM
Reports have surfaced about the removal of information about abortion from social media. Unfortunately, none of it is unprecedented. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have long maintained broad and vague community standards that allow them to remove content with little recourse.
What Is Happening
As reported by Vice and followed up on by Wired, posts about abortion receive intense scrutiny online. The difference, one activist told Vice, is simply that more people are seeing their posts remov...
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Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/federal-preemption-state-privacy-law-hurts-everyone
July 28, 2022, 5:43 PM
There's a lot of discussion right now about how a federal privacy bill, the American Data Privacy Protection Act (H.R.8152), will affect state privacy laws. EFF has a clear position on this: federal privacy laws should not roll back state privacy protections. The ADPPA, as currently written, would override a broad swath of existing state laws and prevent states from future action on those areas, a structure called "preemption." We have expressed disappointment and called on Congress to do better...
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Americans Deserve More Than The Current American Data Privacy Protection Act
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/americans-deserve-more-current-american-data-privacy-protection-act
July 24, 2022, 5:05 PM
EFF is disappointed by the latest draft of the American Data Privacy Protection Act, or the ADPPA (H.R. 8152), a federal comprehensive data privacy bill. The bill passed the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee on Wednesday, and is headed to the House floor.
We have been closely monitoring the progress of this bill, and carefully watched how negotiations played out. EFF last month sent a public letter to Congress seeking improvements to a prior version of this bill—many of these suggestio...
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Police Are Still Abusing Investigative Exemptions to Shield Surveillance Tech, While Others Move Towards Transparency
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/police-are-still-abusing-investigative-exemptions-shield-surveillance-tech-while-0
July 22, 2022, 4:28 PM
How transparent are police about surveillance technology? It depends on where you look. When it comes to acceptable levels of secrecy around police tools, states have drawn their lines in very different places, resulting in some communities where it is much harder for the public to know what invasive tools are being used.
State public records laws are designed to provide residents a way to learn about their government’s activities. They are variably effective in practice. It is not unusual fo...
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New Amendments to Intermediary Rules threaten Free Speech in India
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/new-amendments-intermediary-rules-threaten-free-speech-india
July 21, 2022, 9:37 PM
EFF joined the Association of Progressive Communications (APC) and other digital rights organizations from around the world, urging the Indian government to withdraw its new amendment to Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (2021 IT Rules).
EFF has already expressed its concerns about IT Rules’ chilling effect on Internet users’ freedom of expression and privacy. The 2021 IT Rules compel significant social media intermediaries (those with registered users in India above a 5...
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EFF Poker Tournament at DEF CON 30
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/eff-poker-tournament-def-con-30
July 20, 2022, 6:48 PM
The DEF CON hacking conference is back in Las Vegas for its 30th year and we’re going all in on internet freedom. Security expert Tarah Wheeler will host EFF's first charity poker tournament at Bally's Poker Room on Friday, August 12. The event features emcee Jen Easterly and more special guests! This is an official DEF CON 30 contest, but all are welcome to participate in some friendly competition to support civil liberties and human rights online.
Take a break from hacking the Gibson to f...
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Nigerian Twitter Ban Declared Unlawful by Court
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/nigerian-twitter-ban-declared-unlawful-court-victory-eff-and-partners
July 20, 2022, 5:09 PM
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court has ruled that a seven-month ban on Twitter by Nigerian authorities in 2021 was unlawful and infringed freedom of expression and access to media. The court, which is a political and economic union of fifteen West African countries, has directed Nigeria to ensure that the unlawful suspension does not happen again, in an important decision for online rights across the region.  
In June of 2021, Nigerian authorities directed internet se...
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Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Platforms Are Censoring Nude Content. Here’s Why You Should Care
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/self-proclaimed-free-speech-platforms-are-censoring-nude-content-heres-why-you
July 20, 2022, 8:24 AM
If their marketing is to be believed, self-avowed free speech maximalist sites like Parler—“where free speech thrives”—and Frank Speech—“the voice of free speech”—claim they will publish all user content. But the reality is a prohibition of many types of legal content, including legal sexual material. This restriction is all too familiar to queer communities, sex workers, and other marginalized groups—all of whom have experienced censorship for their perfectly legal content els...
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Nominations Open for 2022 EFF Awards!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/nominations-open-2022-eff-awards
July 19, 2022, 9:10 PM
Nominations are now open for the 2022 EFF Awards! The nomination window will be open until August 2nd at 2:00 PM Pacific time. You could nominate the next winner today!For thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented awards to key leaders in the fight for freedom and innovation online. EFF’s annual Pioneer Award Ceremony celebrated the longtime stalwarts working on behalf of technology users, both in the public eye and behind the scenes. Honorees included visionary activist Aaron...
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EFF and Partners Urge the Indian Government to Keep End-to-End Encryption Alive
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/eff-and-partners-urge-indian-government-keep-end-end-encryption-alive
July 18, 2022, 4:41 PM
In a letter to the Indian Government, EFF and partner digital rights organizations from around the world called on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to withdraw the so-called traceability requirement under its Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (2021 IT Rules). The Rules compel private end-to-end encrypted messaging services to enable the identification of the “first originator” of information on their platforms. EFF has already expressed its co...
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Ring Reveals They Give Videos to Police Without User Consent or a Warrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/ring-reveals-they-give-videos-police-without-user-consent-or-warrant
July 15, 2022, 10:06 PM
Amazon’s Ring devices are not just personal security cameras. They are also police cameras—whether you want them to be or not. The company now admits there are “emergency” instances when police can get warrantless access to Ring personal devices without the owner’s permission. This dangerous policy allows police, in conjunction with Ring, to decide when access should be granted to private video. The footage is given in “​​cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physic...
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EFF and ACLU File Amicus Brief Objecting to Warrantless, Suspicionless Electronic Device Searches at the Border
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/eff-and-aclu-file-amicus-brief-objecting-warrantless-suspicionless-electronic
July 14, 2022, 11:49 PM
In the past couple of decades, EFF has argued that when it comes to suspicionless and warrantless searches at the border, electronic devices like cell phones are not the same as a piece of luggage. Although certain searches at the border are permitted without a warrant, the search of a digital device while crossing into or out of the United States has been dubbed by judges to be “highly intrusive” and impacts the “dignity and privacy interests” of travelers. Digital device searches there...
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Impact Litigation in Action: Building the Caselaw Behind a Win for Free Speech
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/impact-litigation-action-building-caselaw-behind-win-free-speech
July 13, 2022, 11:23 PM
A recent District Court decision in In re DMCA 512(h) Subpoena to Twitter, Inc. is a great win for free speech. The Court firmly rejected the argument that copyright law creates a shortcut around the First Amendment’s protections for anonymous critics. In the case, a company tried to use copyright law and the DMCA processes to force Twitter to identify an anonymous critic of private equity billionaire Brian Sheth. Twitter thankfully resisted the demand for its user’s identity, and EFF filed ...
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The Department of Defense Should Disclose When it Purchases User Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/department-defense-should-disclose-when-it-purchases-user-data
July 13, 2022, 10:57 PM
Congress must pass the Jacobs-Davidson Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the yearly funding bill for national security and the military. It would require the Department of Defense to disclose, both to Congress and the public, information about when it purchases geolocation data collected by cell phones or digital communications and internet metadata on internet usage.
This important amendment would bring more transparency to a glaring and growing privacy problem. The a...
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Congress Probes How Location Data Brokers Threaten Reproductive Privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/congress-probes-how-location-data-brokers-threaten-reproductive-privacy
July 12, 2022, 8:37 PM
Data brokers harvest location information from our phone apps, then sell access to the highest bidder, including government. This is a way sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states may try to identify and punish people seeking and providing abortion.
Some good news: three members of Congress are investigating this problem, and have sent letters to five location data brokers. The legislators are Rep. Maloney, chair of the House Oversight Committee; Rep. Krishnamoorthi, chair of the Cons...
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Victory! Another Court Protects the Right to Record Police
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-protects-right-record-police
July 12, 2022, 8:10 PM
When people fear that the police are about to break the law, they pull out their phones and hit “record.” Doing so promotes police accountability and public discussion of important issues. So, it is great news that yet another federal appellate court has ruled that people have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police. With this ruling, the Tenth Circuit has joined six other federal appellate courts: the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits.
The case is Irizarry...
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State by State, We’re Making Progress Against Anti-Speech Lawsuits
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/state-state-were-making-progress-against-anti-speech-lawsuits
July 11, 2022, 10:12 PM
The First Amendment grants us all the right to say our piece. The government can’t shut down our rights to speak out, protest, and publish. At EFF, we’ve been making sure that we have strong First Amendment rights in the online world for more than 30 years. 
Government repression isn’t the only threat to free speech, though. Well-funded corporations and individuals have been able to abuse our court system to quash the constitutional rights of those they disagree with, by filing Strategic ...
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✨ Happy Birthday to EFF!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/happy-birthday-eff
July 10, 2022, 4:35 PM
Today at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we’re celebrating 32 years of fighting for technology users around the world. If you were online back in the 90s, you might remember that it was pretty wild. We had bulletin boards, FTP, Gopher, and, a few years later, homespun websites. You could glimpse a future where anyone, anywhere in the world could access information, float new ideas, and reach each other across vast distances. It was exciting and the possibilities seemed endless.
But the fou...
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San Francisco Coalition Fights SFPD’s Proposal to Co-Opt Private Surveillance Cameras
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/san-francisco-coalition-fights-sfpds-proposal-co-opt-private-surveillance-cameras
July 8, 2022, 9:36 PM
A large coalition of community and civil rights organizations have sent a letter urging the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to oppose or significantly amend a San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) proposal that would drastically increase their surveillance powers— threatening the privacy and safety of San Franciscans.
The SFPD’s proposal would give the police the ability to access thousands of private surveillance cameras—including those outside of residences and businesses, as well a...
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EFF and Partners Call on the Indonesia Government to Repeal Invasive Content Moderation Rules
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/eff-and-partners-call-indonesia-repeal-invasive-content-moderation
July 8, 2022, 5:13 PM
EFF joined SAFEnet and a dozen digital rights organizations in urging the Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information to repeal its invasive content moderation rules, known as the Ministerial Regulation Number 5 (MR5) and its amendment, Ministerial Regulation Number 10 (MR10).  EFF has already sounded the alarm about MR5’s chilling effect on human rights, from forcing online platforms to proactively monitor  user-generated content to turning them into government enforcers and making...
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Internet Archive Seeks Summary Judgment in Federal Lawsuit Filed By Publishing Companies
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/internet-archive-seeks-summary-judgment-federal-lawsuit-filed-publishing-companies
July 8, 2022, 4:20 PM
Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending Program Is Lawful Fair Use That Preserves Traditional Library Lending in the Digital WorldSAN FRANCISCO—The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in its favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending.
The Internet Archive, headquartered in San Francisco, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in elect...
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For the Love of the Wild Web 🖤
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/do-it-love-wild-web
July 6, 2022, 2:29 PM
There is a traditional Japanese concept called wabi-sabi that recognizes the world as impermanent, evolving, and unfinished. You could call it the beauty of embracing imperfection. Despite the sleek, otherworldly look of today’s tech devices, the internet itself is still chaotic, inspirational, dynamic, necessary, worrisome, and, yes, beautiful.
With that love for the wild web, EFF works hands-on to protect your privacy, security, and free expression rights no matter how technologies change.�...
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EFF Statement on EU Parliament’s Adoption of Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-statement-eu-parliaments-formal-approval-digital-services-act-and-digital-markets
July 5, 2022, 3:45 PM
The laws have important tools to make the internet a fairer place, but there are implementation challenges ahead.SAN FRANCISCO–The European Union reached another milestone by approving the “Digital Services Act package” this week. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are intended to create a safer and more competitive digital space.
By setting out new responsibilities for online platforms, the Digital Services Act (DSA) was supposed to rein in the power of Facebook, Google,...
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Cheers to EFF's 14th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Winners!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/cheers-effs-15th-annual-cyberlaw-trivia-winners
July 5, 2022, 7:00 AM
The best legal minds in the Bay Area returned after two years to once again gather in-person for EFF's 14th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night on June 16th. Participants from technology law firms and internet companies throughout the Bay Area attended for a night filled with obscure tech law trivia, delicious food, and just a dash of pop culture!After attendees had piled their plates high with chicken and waffles in preparation for the evening's competition, the teams set their sights on the coveted C...
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New Ipandetec’s Report Features ISPs’ Privacy Best Practices and Flaws in Panamá
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/new-ipandetecs-report-features-isps-privacy-best-practices-and-flaws-panama
July 1, 2022, 4:00 AM
Panamá’s mobile internet service providers have improved their commitments to transparency and user privacy, according to the new edition of IPANDETEC’s ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (“Who Defends Your Data?”) report. The third edition, published today shows general progress in companies’ data protection policies and their public commitment to assess the legal grounds of law enforcement requests before handing over user data to the authorities. As in the last edition, IPANDETEC evaluate...
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Should You Really Delete Your Period Tracking App?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/should-you-really-delete-your-period-tracking-app
June 30, 2022, 9:16 PM
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision depriving people of the right to abortion leaked last month, some have advised deleting period tracking apps to prevent that data from being used to target people seeking abortion care. But it’s useful to distinguish between the security and privacy threats that abortion seekers are actively experiencing now versus threats that may come in the future. Dragnet surveillance of period tracking apps in order to identify people with menstrual irregularitie...
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