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Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | June 7, 2021

Civil Society Groups Seek More Time to Review, Comment on Rushed Global Treaty for Intrusive Cross Border Police Powers

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), European Digital Rights (EDRi), and 40 other civil society organizations urged the Council of Europe’s Parliament Assembly and Committee of Ministers to allow more time for them to provide much-needed analysis and feedback on the flawed cross border police surveillance treaty its...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | June 7, 2021

VICTORY: You Can Now Make Your Venmo Friends List Private. Here’s How.

It took two and a half years and one national security incident, but Venmo did it, folks: users now have privacy settings to hide their friends lists. As we’ve noted before, this is the bare minimum. Providing more privacy settings options so users can opt-out of the publication of their...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 7, 2021

Ring Changed How Police Request Door Camera Footage: What it Means and Doesn’t Mean

Amazon Ring has announced that it will change the way police can request footage from millions of doorbell cameras in communities across the country. Rather than the current system, in which police can send automatic bulk email requests to individual Ring users in an area of interest up to...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | June 7, 2021

Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases

Last week, Maryland and Montana passed laws requiring judicial authorization to search consumer DNA databases in criminal investigations. These are welcome and important restrictions on forensic genetic genealogy searching (FGGS)—a law enforcement technique that has become increasingly common and impacts the genetic privacy of millions of Americans.Consumer personal...

Deeplinks Blog by Daly Barnett | June 7, 2021

Security Tips for Online LGBTQ+ Dating

Dating is risky. Aside from the typical worries of possible rejection or lack of romantic chemistry, LGBTQIA people often have added safety considerations to keep in mind. Sometimes staying in the proverbial closet is a matter of personal security. Even if someone is open with their community about being LGBTQ+,...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Jillian C. York | June 7, 2021

Facebook's Policy Shift on Politicians Is a Welcome Step

We are happy to see the news that Facebook is putting an end to a policy that has long privileged the speech of politicians over that of ordinary users. The policy change, which was announced on Friday by The Verge, is something that EFF has been pushing for...

Event | June 16, 2021

EFF At Home: Pride Edition

This event has passed. You can watch the recording on YouTube, Facebook, or the Internet Archive. Join us Wednesday June 16th for another At Home with EFF livestream. For Pride month, we are discussing the intersection of digital rights and LGBTQ+ liberation with special guests: • ...

Event | June 9, 2021

Amazon and Big Tech’s Chokehold on Democracy

Amazon and Big Tech’s Chokehold on Democracy PanelWHEN: Wednesday, June 9, 2pm EST; 11 am PSTWHO: Public Citizen (Jane Chung), Free Press (Sandy Fulton), Electronic Frontier Foundation (Hayley Tsukayama), ACLU-WA (Jennifer Lee)WHAT: Amazon is the second-largest individual corporate lobbying spender in the entire country. This panel...

Deeplinks Blog by Rory Mir | June 4, 2021

Where to See the EFF Staff at RightsCon 2021

Our friends at Access Now are once again hosting RightsCon online next week, June 7-11th. This summit provides an opportunity for human rights experts, technologists, government representatives, and activists to discuss pressing human rights challenges and their potential solutions. This year we will have several EFF staff in...

Event | June 11, 2021

RightsCon: Must-carry? The pros and cons of requiring online services to carry all user speech: litigation strategies and outcomes

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:The legal issue of whether online services must carry user speech is a complicated one, with free speech values on both sides, and different results...

Event | June 10, 2021

RightsCon: As AR/VR becomes a reality, it needs a human rights framework

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pageDescription:Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies (VR/AR) are rapidly becoming more prevalent to a wider audience. This technology provides the promise to entertain and educate,...

Event | June 10, 2021

RightsCon: “But we're on the same side!”: how tools to fight extremism can harm counterspeech

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:We will set the stage for this session by describing how colonialist concepts of “terrorist and violent extremist content,” and dis- and mis- information, are driving content moderation policies and impacting free speech....

Event | June 10, 2021

RightsCon: Designing for language accessibility: making usable technologies for non-left to right languages

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:The internet was built from the ground up for ASCII characters, leaving billions of speakers of languages that do not use the Latin alphabet underserved....

Event | June 9, 2021

RightsCon: Contemplating content moderation in Africa: disinformation and hate speech in focus

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:While social media platforms have been applauded for being a place of self-expression, they are often inattentive to local contexts in many ethnically and linguistically...

Event | June 7, 2021

RightsCon: What's past is prologue: safeguarding rights in international efforts to fight cybercrime

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This strategy session is limited to 25 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:Cybercrime is a pressing global concern and threatens people’s livelihoods. Unfortunately, some efforts by governments to fight cybercrime, including at the international levels, can fail...

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Civil Society Groups Seek More Time to Review, Comment on Rushed Global Treaty for Intrusive Cross Border Police Powers

VICTORY: You Can Now Make Your Venmo Friends List Private. Here’s How.

Ring Changed How Police Request Door Camera Footage: What it Means and Doesn’t Mean

Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases

Security Tips for Online LGBTQ+ Dating

Facebook's Policy Shift on Politicians Is a Welcome Step

EFF At Home: Pride Edition

Amazon and Big Tech’s Chokehold on Democracy

Where to See the EFF Staff at RightsCon 2021

RightsCon: Must-carry? The pros and cons of requiring online services to carry all user speech: litigation strategies and outcomes

RightsCon: As AR/VR becomes a reality, it needs a human rights framework

RightsCon: “But we're on the same side!”: how tools to fight extremism can harm counterspeech

RightsCon: Designing for language accessibility: making usable technologies for non-left to right languages

RightsCon: Contemplating content moderation in Africa: disinformation and hate speech in focus

RightsCon: What's past is prologue: safeguarding rights in international efforts to fight cybercrime

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