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Press Release | December 15, 2023

Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending From Big Publishers’ Legal Attack

SAN FRANCISCO—A cartel of major publishing companies must not be allowed to criminalize fair-use library lending, the Internet Archive argued in an appellate brief filed today. The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form....

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | December 13, 2023

Is This the End of Geofence Warrants?

Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “Location History” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a geofence warrant, a change we’ve been asking...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | December 13, 2023

Speaking Freely: Dr. Carolina Are

Dr. Carolina Are is an Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University Centre for Digital Citizens. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection between online abuse and censorship. Her current research project investigates Instagram and TikTok’s approach to malicious flagging against ‘grey area’ content, or content that toes the line of compliance...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | December 13, 2023

Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure

Every internet user should have the ability to privately communicate with the people that matter to them, in a secure fashion, using the tools and protocols of their choosing.Apple’s iMessage offers end-to-end encrypted messaging for its customers, but only if those customers want to talk to someone who also has...

Deeplinks Blog by Ross Schulman | December 13, 2023

Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web

While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer applications. Two leading projects, Spritely and Veilid, hint at what this could look like.There are many technologies used behind the...

Deeplinks Blog by Thorin Klosowski | December 12, 2023

No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website for Training

Both OpenAI and Google have released guidance for website owners who do not want the two companies using the content of their sites to train the company's large language models (LLMs). We've long been supporters of the right to scrape websites—the process of using a computer to load and...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | December 8, 2023

The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill is a Farce

Two bills reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are headed to the House floor. Meanwhile, FBI agents have used Section 702 databases to conduct millions of invasive searches for Americans’ communications, including those of protesters, racial justice activists, 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, journalists, and even members of Congress.

Press Release | December 7, 2023

In Landmark Battle Over Free Speech, EFF Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Texas and Florida Laws that Let States Dictate What Speech Social Media Sites Must Publish

WASHINGTON D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and five organizations defending free speech today urged the Supreme Court to strike down laws in Florida and Texas that let the states dictate certain speech social media sites must carry, violating the sites’ First Amendment rights to curate content they publish—a...

Deeplinks Blog by Thorin Klosowski | December 7, 2023

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

Deeplinks Blog by Michael Barclay, Mitch Stoltz | December 7, 2023

EFF Reminds the Supreme Court That Copyright Trolls Are Still a Problem

At EFF, we spend a lot of time calling out the harm caused by copyright trolls and protecting internet users from their abuses. Copyright trolls are serial plaintiffs who use search tools to identify technical, often low-value infringements on the internet, and then seek nuisance...

Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Mona Wang | December 7, 2023

Meta Announces End-to-End Encryption by Default in Messenger

Yesterday Meta announced that they have begun rolling out default end-to-end encryption for one-to-one messages and voice calls on Messenger and Facebook. While there remain some privacy concerns around backups and metadata, we applaud this decision. It will bring strong encryption to over one billion people,...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | December 6, 2023

Speaking Freely: Alison Macrina

Alison Macrina is an activist librarian and the director of Library Freedom Project (LFP). LFP is radically rethinking the library professional organization by creating a network of values-driven librarian-activists taking action together to build information democracy. LFP offers trainings, resources, and community building for librarians on issues of privacy, surveillance...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | December 6, 2023

The Combined Federal Campaign Pledge Period is Closing Soon!

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) closes on January 15, 2024! U.S. federal employees and retirees can make a pledge to help support EFF’s lawyers, activists, and technologists fight for user rights online.If you’re a U.S. federal employee or retiree, giving to EFF through the CFC is easy! Just head over...

Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | December 6, 2023

The Latest EU Media Freedom Act Agreement Is a Bad Deal for Users

Update: On 13 March 2024, the EU Parliament approved the EU Media Freedom Act. The bill promotes media pluralism in the EU and provides important standards on the transparency of media ownership. Thanks to EFF, EU representatives addressed some key concerns in the final version. For example, the...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | December 6, 2023

Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestine

In the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing backlash on Palestine, Meta has engaged in unjustified content and account takedowns on its social media platforms. This has suppressed the voices of journalists, human rights defenders, and many others concerned or directly affected by the war.

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Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending From Big Publishers’ Legal Attack

Is This the End of Geofence Warrants?

Speaking Freely: Dr. Carolina Are

Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure

Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web

No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website for Training

The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill is a Farce

In Landmark Battle Over Free Speech, EFF Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Texas and Florida Laws that Let States Dictate What Speech Social Media Sites Must Publish

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays

EFF Reminds the Supreme Court That Copyright Trolls Are Still a Problem

Meta Announces End-to-End Encryption by Default in Messenger

Speaking Freely: Alison Macrina

The Combined Federal Campaign Pledge Period is Closing Soon!

The Latest EU Media Freedom Act Agreement Is a Bad Deal for Users

Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestine

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