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Event | June 4, 2022

EFF at BSidesSF 2022

EFF is excited to be back at BSidesSF 2022 at City View at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco! You'll find us in the expo hall all weekend. Stop by and start or renew a membership and learn about the latest work EFF is doing to protect your digital...

Event | July 28, 2022

EFF at SCaLE 19x

After two long years, EFF is excited to be returning for the 19th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)! You'll find us in the expo hall all weekend. Stop by and start or renew a membership and learn about the latest work EFF is doing to protect your digital rights....

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | April 19, 2022

Scraping Public Websites (Still) Isn’t a Crime, Court of Appeals Declares

Reiterating its prior common-sense opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in hiQ v. LinkedIn that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act likely does not bar scraping data from a public website against the wishes of the website owner. Last year, after the Supreme Court decided its first...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | April 18, 2022

Mobile MitM: Intercepting Your Android App Traffic On the Go

In order to audit the privacy and security practices of the apps we use on a daily basis, we need to be able to inspect the network traffic they are sending. An app asking for permission to your location may only use it to send it to your friends, or...

Deeplinks Blog by Chao Liu | April 18, 2022

California May Require Low-Cost Broadband from Subsidized Networks

Through the pandemic, the state of California passed a number of bills that resulted in a once-in-a-generation, multi-billion dollar investment to solve the digital divide. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in response, initiated a proceeding to explore the rules, expectations, and standards necessary to turn available funds...

Press Release | April 15, 2022

Let's Encrypt Wins Levchin Prize For Work On Internet Security

SAN FRANCISCO—Let’s Encrypt—a project of the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which is supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other sponsors—won the prestigious international Levchin Prize for significant contributions to real-world cryptography.Let’s Encrypt is part of the effort to encrypt the entire internet as a...

Press Release | April 13, 2022

Civil Liberties Groups Urge Social Media Platforms to Better Protect Free Flow of Information in Crisis Zones

SAN FRANCISCO—Whether in Ukraine or in other crisis zones around the globe, social media platforms have a duty to ensure that people have access to the free flow of life-saving information, according to a statement issued today by 31 international human rights and civil liberties organizations, including the Electronic...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | April 12, 2022

EFF and Partners to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: Retaliatory Investigation of Twitter Chills First Amendment Rights

Censorship doesn’t always look like a black line across a document, or a clear order to remove a piece of content. Websites feel pressured without the government having to issue a clear directive that they host certain speakers or carry certain content. The First Amendment recognizes that speech can often...

Event | April 20, 2022

So You Want to Work on Public Interest Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Eva Galperin

Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has worked on everything from identifying nation-state actors who hack into activists’ phones to building a coalition to push back against technologies that harm survivors of intimate partner violence.Join Kendra Albert of the Berkman-Klein Center's Cyberlaw Clinic for a...

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | April 12, 2022

Podcast Episode: Making Hope, with Adam Savage

The joy of tinkering, making, and sharing is part of the human condition. In modern times, this creative freedom too often is stifled by secrecy as a means of monetization - from non-compete laws to quashing people’s right to repair the products they’ve already paid for.Adam Savage—the maker extraordinaire best...

Event | April 18, 2022

(Re)Taking Control of Virtual Spaces

The Learning Cooperative presents the first in a new series of events exploring themes of democracy and its increasing absence in online, and offline, spaces.While the creation of the virtual world started as an emancipatory utopian project, ‘cyberspace’ soon started to fall-under, replicate, and accelerate the same oppressive norms and...

Event | April 25, 2022

Surveillance Self Defense Workshop

Restore the 4th MN, a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Surveillance Self Defense WorkshopFrom the Organizers:Taking lessons from our panel discussion on Protesting in the Age of Mass surveillance, this workshop is an opportunity for activists on the ground to...

Event | April 19, 2022

S.T.O.P. x RadTech with Amnesty International: Facial Recognition in the Five Boroughs

S.T.O.P. - a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event: S.T.O.P. x RadTech with Amnesty International: Facial Recognition in the Five Boroughs From the Organizers:In this session, S.T.O.P. and Amnesty International will discuss New York City’s sprawling network of surveillance cameras...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | April 7, 2022

The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline

An officer hands you a digital tablet and assures you that you can use it to communicate to sort out your affairs. It's a glimmer of a lifeline… but then you try to use the device. A pop-up opens on the tablet's screen, and you're forced to watch a commercial...

Event | April 9, 2022

The Right to Privacy: Consumer Genetics, Data Brokers, Facial Recognition Technology, Criminal Justice, and You

The Right to Privacy: Consumer Genetics, Data Brokers, Facial Recognition Technology, Criminal Justice, and You As governments, companies, and “bad actors” increasingly traffic in data, the collection, use, and sale of personal information has become a nearly unavoidable part of everyday life. Is this data...

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EFF at BSidesSF 2022

EFF at SCaLE 19x

Scraping Public Websites (Still) Isn’t a Crime, Court of Appeals Declares

Mobile MitM: Intercepting Your Android App Traffic On the Go

California May Require Low-Cost Broadband from Subsidized Networks

Let's Encrypt Wins Levchin Prize For Work On Internet Security

Civil Liberties Groups Urge Social Media Platforms to Better Protect Free Flow of Information in Crisis Zones

EFF and Partners to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: Retaliatory Investigation of Twitter Chills First Amendment Rights

So You Want to Work on Public Interest Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Eva Galperin

Podcast Episode: Making Hope, with Adam Savage

(Re)Taking Control of Virtual Spaces

Surveillance Self Defense Workshop

S.T.O.P. x RadTech with Amnesty International: Facial Recognition in the Five Boroughs

The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline

The Right to Privacy: Consumer Genetics, Data Brokers, Facial Recognition Technology, Criminal Justice, and You

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