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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 3, 2021

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires

Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | August 3, 2021

Flex Your Power. Own Your Tech.

Just as a good hacker sees worlds of possibility in plastic, metal, and pixels, we must all envision and work for a future that’s better than what we’re given. This week, EFF is celebrating the Las Vegas computer security conferences virtually and putting our annual mystery-filled DEF CON t-shirt online.

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | August 2, 2021

The Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is a Disaster for Digital Privacy

The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could include developers and others who do not control digital...

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

Es hora de que la policía deje de usar ShotSpotter

Documentos judiciales revisados recientemente por VICE han revelado que ShotSpotter, una empresa que fabrica y vende sistemas de detección de disparos por audio a ciudades y departamentos de policía, podría no ser tan precisa o fiable como afirma la empresa. De hecho, los documentos revelan que los empleados...

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.

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

Los corredores de datos son el problema

¿Por qué debería preocuparse por los corredores de datos? El informe de esta semana sobre una publicación de Substack que sacó a la luz a un sacerdote con datos de localización de Grindr muestra una vez más lo fácil que es para cualquiera aprovecharse de los almacenes de...

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)...

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.

Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Diaz | July 21, 2021

Cheers to the Winners of EFF's 13th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

EFF hosts the Cyberlaw Trivia Night to gather those in the legal community who help protect online freedom for their users. EFF's staff joined forces to craft the questions, pulling details from the rich canon of privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law.

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Kurt Opsahl | July 20, 2021

En la India, las normas draconianas para las plataformas de Internet amenazan la privacidad de los usuarios y atentan contra el cifrado.

The Indian government’s new Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (“2021 Rules”) pose huge problems for free expression and Internet users’ privacy. They include dangerous requirements for platforms to identify the origins of messages and pre-screen content, which fundamentally breaks strong encryption for messaging tools.

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires

Flex Your Power. Own Your Tech.

The Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is a Disaster for Digital Privacy

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

Es hora de que la policía deje de usar 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

Los corredores de datos son el problema

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

Venmo Takes Another Step Toward Privacy

Cheers to the Winners of EFF's 13th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

En la India, las normas draconianas para las plataformas de Internet amenazan la privacidad de los usuarios y atentan contra el cifrado.

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