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Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | February 1, 2022

Podcast Episode: Saving Podcasts from a Patent Troll

Imagine getting a letter in the mail—and then another, and then another—telling you that if you don’t pay $25,000 to a company you’ve never heard of, you’ll have to shut down the small business that you’ve worked for years to build. That’s exactly the situation faced by a group of...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon, Katharine Trendacosta | January 28, 2022

California Prevails on Net Neutrality Rules

The Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of California over the large national internet service providers (ISPs), paving the way for California’s gold standard state net neutrality law to go forward. Throughout the long battle on net neutrality, from Ajit Pai’s repeal of federal net neutrality protections to state efforts to...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | January 27, 2022

New Tracking Global Online Censorship Site Explains Content Moderation Practices and Impacts

Content moderation has become a critical topic across the globe. Unfortunately, it can still be difficult for the average person to understand the processes that go into content moderation, much less how to appeal decisions that those platforms make to censor content or accounts. To help fill this gap, we’re...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | January 25, 2022

Podcast Episode: Data Doppelgängers

Podcast Episode 109As humans, we’re constantly changing and evolving, always trying to become our best selves. But the internet will never forget about us at our lowest. One simple search or purchase online can cause the internet, specifically advertisements, to haunt you with products forever, no matter how much you...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | January 21, 2022

The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.

This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency to convince people that encrypted messages are dangerous to children.The explicit goal of the “No Place to Hide” campaign, launched on Tuesday, is to prevent Facebook from...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | January 21, 2022

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 34.1

Start the new year right by keeping up with the latest news on your digital rights! Version 34, issue 1 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news, from our celebration of Copyright Week to Google releasing a "disable 2g" feature for new Android...

Deeplinks Blog by Naomi Gilens | January 20, 2022

EFF Sues the U.S. State Department over Documents Related to Activist Leila Khaled

Over the last few years, technology platforms have repeatedly censored online expression by Palestinians and their allies. In one example of this, technology companies have refused to host speech by Palestinian activist Leila Khaled. Khaled is associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group on...

Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | January 20, 2022

DSA: La votación del Parlamento Europeo garantiza una Internet libre, pero un reglamento final debe añadir protecciones más fuertes para la privacidad

El Parlamento Europeo tenía que tomar una importante decisión esta semana sobre la Ley de Servicios Digitales (DSA). Después de meses de considerar las enmiendas, los miembros oscilaron entre varias opciones políticas sobre cómo regular las plataformas en línea, incluyendo la idea distópica de obligar a las plataformas dominantes a...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | January 19, 2022

In the Internet Age, Copyright Law Does Far More Than Antitrust to Shape Competition

There has been a notable, and long overdue flurry, of antitrust actions targeting Big Tech, launched by users, entrepreneurs, and governments alike. And in the US and abroad, policymakers are working to revamp our antitrust laws so they can be more effective at promoting user choice.

Deeplinks Blog by Konstantinos Komaitis, David Greene | January 19, 2022

Fact-Checking, COVID-19 Misinformation, and the British Medical Journal

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, authoritative research and publications have been critical in gaining better knowledge of the virus and how to combat it. However, unlike previous pandemics, this one has been further exacerbated by a massive wave of misinformation and disinformation spreading across traditional and online social media.The increasing volume...

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | January 18, 2022

Copyright Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of Your Right to Repair

If you bought it, you own it and you can do what you want with it. That should be the end of the story—whether we’re talking about a car, a tractor, a smartphone, a computer, or really anything you buy.

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | January 18, 2022

Podcast Episode: How Private is Your Bank Account?

Podcast Episode 108Your friends, your medical concerns, your political ideology— financial transactions tell the story of your life in intimate details. But U.S. law has failed to protect this sensitive data from prying eyes. Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they talk to Marta Belcher, one of the...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | January 17, 2022

Welcome to the Public Domain, Winnie-the-Pooh

In 2019, for the first time in 20 years, U.S. copyright law allowed formerly copyrighted works to join the public domain. Works in the public domain are no longer under copyright, and anyone can republish or use those works in whatever way they want. The public domain is the default...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | January 17, 2022

It’s Copyright Week 2022: Ten Years Later, How Has SOPA/PIPA Shaped Online Copyright Enforcement?

Ten years ago, a diverse coalition of internet users, non-profit groups, and internet companies defeated the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), bills that would have forced internet companies to blacklist and block websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content. These were bills that would have...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | January 13, 2022

EFF Threat Lab’s “apkeep” APK Downloader, Now More Capable and Available in More Places

In September, we introduced EFF Threat Lab’s very own APK Downloader, apkeep. It is a tool that allows us to make the job of tracking state-sponsored malware and combatting the stalkerware of abusive partners easier. Since that time, we’ve added some additional functionality that we’d...

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Podcast Episode: Saving Podcasts from a Patent Troll

California Prevails on Net Neutrality Rules

New Tracking Global Online Censorship Site Explains Content Moderation Practices and Impacts

Podcast Episode: Data Doppelgängers

The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 34.1

EFF Sues the U.S. State Department over Documents Related to Activist Leila Khaled

DSA: La votación del Parlamento Europeo garantiza una Internet libre, pero un reglamento final debe añadir protecciones más fuertes para la privacidad

In the Internet Age, Copyright Law Does Far More Than Antitrust to Shape Competition

Fact-Checking, COVID-19 Misinformation, and the British Medical Journal

Copyright Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of Your Right to Repair

Podcast Episode: How Private is Your Bank Account?

Welcome to the Public Domain, Winnie-the-Pooh

It’s Copyright Week 2022: Ten Years Later, How Has SOPA/PIPA Shaped Online Copyright Enforcement?

EFF Threat Lab’s “apkeep” APK Downloader, Now More Capable and Available in More Places

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