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Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz, Alexis Hancock | July 29, 2021

DHS’s Flawed Plan for Mobile Driver’s Licenses

Digital identification can invade our privacy and aggravate existing social inequities. Designed wrong, it might be a big step towards national identification, in which every time we walk through a door or buy coffee, a record of the event is collected and aggregated. Also, any system that privileges...

Deeplinks Blog by Mukund Rathi, David Greene | July 29, 2021

Texas AG Paxton's Retaliatory Investigation of Twitter Goes to Ninth Circuit

In an amicus brief filed July 23, EFF, along with the Center for Democracy and Technology and other partner organizations, urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to apply longstanding First Amendment law and protect Twitter from a retaliatory investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | July 29, 2021

The Bipartisan Broadband Bill: Good, But It Won’t End the Digital Divide

The U.S. Senate is on the cusp of approving an infrastructure package, which passed a critical first vote last night by 67-32. Negotiations on the final bill are ongoing, but late yesterday NBC News had the draft broadband provisions. There is a lot to like in it, a lot that...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | July 29, 2021

It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter

Update (October 22): Earlier this month, SpotSpotter filed a lawsuit alleging that the Vice report linked below contains false and defamatory statements.Court documents recently reviewed by VICE have revealed that ShotSpotter, a company that makes and sells audio gunshot detection to cities and police departments, may not...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | July 28, 2021

Disentangling Disinformation: Not as Easy as it Looks

Body bags claiming that “disinformation kills” line the streets today in front of Facebook’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. A group of protesters, affiliated with “The Real Facebook Oversight Board” (an organization that is, confusingly, not affiliated with Facebook or its Oversight Board), is urging Facebook’s shareholders to ban so-called...

Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney, Cindy Cohn | July 28, 2021

Should Congress Close the FBI’s Backdoor for Spying on American Communications? Yes.

All of us deserve basic protection against government searches and seizures that the Constitution provides, including requiring law enforcement to get a warrant before it can access our communications. But currently, the FBI has a backdoor into our communications, a loophole, that Congress can and should close.This week, Congress will...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | July 28, 2021

EFF at 30: Freeing the Internet, with Net Neutrality Pioneer Gigi Sohn

To celebrate 30 years of defending online freedom, EFF held a candid live discussion with net neutrality pioneer and EFF board member Gigi Sohn, who served as Counselor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and co-founder of leading advocacy organization Public Knowledge.

Press Release | July 27, 2021

EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program

Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests, raising concerns about chilling the privacy and...

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EFF v. USPS - Social media monitoring (iCOP)

The Postal Service has secretly combed through the online expression of social media users, raising concerns about chilling the privacy and expressive activity of internet users. EFF filed a Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) suit to learn more about the program.On April 21, 2021, Yahoo News reported that the...

Event

Privacy Without Monopoly: DEFCON 29

EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow keynotes the virtual track at DEFCON 29 with "Privacy Without Monopoly," a speech adapted from the EFF white-paper co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.Governments around the world (US, UK, EU) are planning to force interoperability on the biggest tech platforms. Companies like Facebook say that...

Press Release | July 23, 2021

EFF, ACLU Urge Appeals Court to Revive Challenge to Los Angeles’ Collection of Scooter Location Data

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern and Southern California today asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit they filed on behalf of electric scooter riders challenging the constitutionality of Los Angeles’ highly privacy-invasive collection of detailed trip data and real-time locations and routes...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Bennett Cyphers | July 23, 2021

Data Brokers Are the Problem

Why should you care about data brokers? Reporting this week about a Substack publication outing a priest with location data from Grindr shows once again how easy it is for anyone to take advantage of data brokers’ stores to cause real harm. This is not the first time...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, Katitza Rodriguez | July 22, 2021

Council of Europe’s Actions Belie its Pledges to Involve Civil Society in Development of Cross Border Police Powers Treaty

As the Council of Europe’s flawed cross border surveillance treaty moves through its final phases of approval, time is running out to ensure cross-border investigations occur with robust privacy and human rights safeguards in place. The innocuously named “Second Additional Protocol” to the Council of Europe’s (CoE)...

Event | August 5, 2021

EFF at DEF CON 29

EFF is excited to be a part of another DEF CON! This year's DEF CON will be a hybrid model, with a limited in-person event and online portion as well. EFF will be in the DEF CON Discord chatting with members and answering any questions you might have about...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | July 21, 2021

Venmo Takes Another Step Toward Privacy

As part of a larger redesign, the payment app Venmo has discontinued its public “global” feed. If Venmo and parent company PayPal are taking privacy seriously, the app should make privacy the default, not just an option still buried in the settings.

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DHS’s Flawed Plan for Mobile Driver’s Licenses

Texas AG Paxton's Retaliatory Investigation of Twitter Goes to Ninth Circuit

The Bipartisan Broadband Bill: Good, But It Won’t End the Digital Divide

It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter

Disentangling Disinformation: Not as Easy as it Looks

Should Congress Close the FBI’s Backdoor for Spying on American Communications? Yes.

EFF at 30: Freeing the Internet, with Net Neutrality Pioneer Gigi Sohn

EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program

EFF v. USPS - Social media monitoring (iCOP)

Privacy Without Monopoly: DEFCON 29

EFF, ACLU Urge Appeals Court to Revive Challenge to Los Angeles’ Collection of Scooter Location Data

Data Brokers Are the Problem

Council of Europe’s Actions Belie its Pledges to Involve Civil Society in Development of Cross Border Police Powers Treaty

EFF at DEF CON 29

Venmo Takes Another Step Toward Privacy

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