Appeals Court Upholds Restriction on Twitter’s First Amendment Right to Publish National Security Transparency Report
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/appeals-court-upholds-restriction-twitters-first-amendment-right-publish-national
March 11, 2023, 12:37 AM
A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week marks a new low in judicial deference to classification and national security, even against the nearly inviolable First Amendment right to be free of prior restraints against speech. In Twitter v. Garland, the court ruled that it was not a violation of the First Amendment for the Justice Department to censor a draft transparency report on the aggregate number of national security demands Twitter received in the second half of 201...
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Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/age-verification-mandates-would-undermine-anonymity-online
March 10, 2023, 8:09 PM
Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach to protecting young people online. It would force websites to require visitors to prove their age by submitting information such as government-issued identification. This scheme would lead us further towards an internet where our private data is collected and sold by default. The tens of millions of Americans who do not have government-issued identifi...
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Flipper Zero Devices Being Seized by Brazil’s Telecom Agency
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/flipper-zero-devices-being-seized-brazils-telecom-agency
March 10, 2023, 1:07 AM
You may have heard of the Flipper Zero. It’s marketed as a “Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks”—a programmable portable device packed with hardware that facilitates wireless penetration testing and hacking on the go. The device, which greets its owner with an adorable cyber-dolphin on its monochrome 128x64 pixel screen, is facing problems in Brazil: despite products with similar features being available to Brazilians, the national telecoms regulator Anatel has flagged the Flipper Zero ...
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Incarcerated Individuals & Advocacy Groups Challenge California County’s Policy of Digitizing and Destroying Jail Mail
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/incarcerated-individuals-advocacy-groups-challenge-california-countys-policy
March 9, 2023, 10:44 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knight Institute, and Social Justice Legal Foundation say that the policy violates the rights to free speech and privacyREDWOOD CITY, CA—The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and the Social Justice Legal Foundation today filed a complaint challenging San Mateo County’s policy of digitizing and destroying physical mail sent to people in its jails.  
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of five people incar...
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Utah's Governor Should Veto "Social Media Regulations" Bill S.B. 152
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/utahs-governor-should-veto-social-media-regulations-bill-sb-152
March 9, 2023, 5:55 PM
This week, EFF asked Utah’s Governor Cox to veto a dangerous “social media regulations” bill, S.B. 152 (McKell). Utah’s bill is part of a wave of age verification laws that would make users less secure, and make internet access less private overall. EFF opposes laws that mandate age verification requirements, and Utah’s S.B. 152 would be one of the worst we’ve seen. 
S.B. 152 would require a social media company to stop a resident minor from creating an account unless they have the ...
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Section 702’s Unconstitutional Domestic Spying Program Must End
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/section-702s-unconstitutional-domestic-spying-program-must-end
March 8, 2023, 12:17 AM
A few months ahead of its expiration this fall, the Biden administration has announced its intention to seek renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—an invasive and unconstitutional law that cannot continue to exist in its current form.
On its face, Section 702 allows the government to conduct surveillance inside the United States so long as the surveillance is directed at foreigners currently located outside the United States. It also prohibits intentionall...
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EFF Tells Supreme Court: Trademark Law Doesn’t Trump the First Amendment
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/eff-tells-supreme-court-trademark-law-doesnt-trump-first-amendment
March 7, 2023, 8:37 PM
A trademark dispute between a liquor company and a maker of novelty dog toys may not sound like an important First Amendment battleground, but the latest trademark case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court could have serious consequences for online speech and political activism. Trademarks are part of our modern lexicon, and we cannot allow their owners to use the law as a censorship tool.
In Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products, Jack Daniels claims that a company infringed and diluted it...
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EFF Comments to NTIA on Privacy and Civil Rights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/eff-comments-ntia-privacy-and-civil-rights
March 7, 2023, 4:27 PM
EFF recently submitted comments to the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on "Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights". NTIA is a unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce that advises the President on information policy. NTIA is writing a report on privacy and civil rights, and requested comments from the public.
The submission spotlights how data surveillance practices cause discrimination against vulnerable groups across the entire lifecycle of data processing: at ...
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Podcast Episode: Making the Invisible Visible
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/podcast-episode-making-invisible-visible
March 7, 2023, 9:53 AM
What would the internet look like if it weren't the greatest technology of mass surveillance in the history of mankind? Trevor Paglen wonders about this, and he makes art from it. 


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EFF and Student Press Law Center Urge Supreme Court to Require Government to Show Subjective Intent in Threat Cases
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/eff-and-student-press-law-center-urge-supreme-court-require-government-show
March 3, 2023, 12:29 AM
EFF Intern Reema Moussa authored this post.
In our highly digitized society, online speech like posts, messages, and emails, can be taken out of context, repackaged in ways that distort or completely lose their meaning, and spread far beyond the intended recipients.With this in mind, we are urging the Supreme Court to rule that any time the government seeks to prosecute someone for threatening violence against another person, it must show that the speaker subjectively intended to threaten before...
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Report: ICE and the Secret Service Conducted Illegal Surveillance of Cell Phones
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/report-ice-and-secret-service-conducted-illegal-surveillance-cell-phones
March 2, 2023, 8:51 PM
The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General has released a troubling new report detailing how federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Secret Service have conducted surveillance using cell-site simulators (CSS) without proper authorization and in violation of the law. Specifically, the office of the Inspector General found that these agencies did not adhere to federal privacy policy governing the use of CSS and...
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Coded Resistance, the Comic!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/coded-resistance-comic
March 2, 2023, 1:00 PM
Illustrations by Chelsea Saunders, produced in collaboration with the Nib.
From the days of chattel slavery until the modern Black Lives Matter movement, Black communities have developed innovative ways to communicate to fight back against oppression.
EFF's Director of Engineering, Alexis Hancock, documented this important history of codes, ciphers, underground telecommunications and even dance in a blog post that became one of our favorite articles of 2021. In collaboration with The Nib and ill...
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Win for Government Transparency and Immigrant Privacy Rights at Second Circuit
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/win-government-transparency-and-immigrant-privacy-rights-second-circuit
February 28, 2023, 8:57 PM
Intern Reema Moussa contributed to this blog post.
As government agencies increasingly use digital tools to track citizens and immigrants, we need to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to make that surveillance transparent. But while the government opens its databases to public scrutiny, it must also protect individual privacy.
Late last month, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must be transparent and respect privacy by producing ...
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Clocking In To Work—On an App
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/stupid-patent-month-clocking-work-app
February 28, 2023, 4:11 PM
What if we told you the Stupid Patent of the Month has a sponsor, but we don’t know who it is? That would seem shady, wouldn’t it? 
This month’s stupid patent, U.S. Patent No. 9,986,435, was brought to you—to all of us, really—from the murky depths of the litigation finance industry. Originally assigned to a shell company linked to giant patent troll Intellectual Ventures, this patent was sold off and is now in the hands of Mellaconic IP LLC, a recently-created Texas shell company. Me...
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EFF Files Amicus Brief to Protect the Speech Rights of Immigrants and Immigrant Rights Advocates
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/eff-files-amicus-brief-protect-speech-rights-immigrants-and-immigrant-rights
February 25, 2023, 1:29 AM
This post was written by intern Devin Sullivan.Should it be a federal crime to encourage an undocumented immigrant to remain in the country? In a friend of the court brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court, we argue that such a prohibition is facially unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds that it would sweep up and prohibit constitutionally protected speech.Our brief was filed in United States v. Hansen, a challenge to the Encouragement Provision in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), whi...
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Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individuals-have-first-amendment-right-livestream-their-own-traffic
February 23, 2023, 11:36 PM
In a partial victory for police accountability, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the First Amendment protects a passenger who livestreams the traffic stop of the car he is traveling in. EFF filed an amicus brief in Sharpe v. Winterville in 2021 in support of the plaintiff. Unfortunately, the Fourth Circuit’s opinion is not a total win for First Amendment rights because the court curtailed the plaintiff’s ability to hold the individual officers accountable.
After pol...
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Podcast Episode: The Right to Imagine Your Own Future
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/podcast-episode-right-imagine-your-own-future
February 21, 2023, 12:07 PM
Too often we let the rich and powerful dictate what technology’s future will be, from Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse to Elon Musk’s neural implants. But what if we all were empowered to use our voices and perspectives to imagine a better world in which we all can thrive while creating and using technology as we choose? 
That idea guides Deji Bryce Olukotun’s work both as a critically acclaimed author and as a tech company’s social impact chief. Instead of just envisioning the oligarch-do...
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Two Ways The U.S. Patent Office Could Do Better At Examination
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/two-ways-us-patent-office-could-do-better-examination
February 17, 2023, 7:17 PM
The patent examination process is rife with problems. Too often, patent law supports applicants seeking unwarranted monopolies—not the public interest. That’s why we get things like Amazon’s patent on white-background photography. This is especially true when it comes to software and so-called “business methods,” a catchall term for patents that are often granted for trivial innovations on well-known concepts, like financial hedging. 
Fees from patent applicants pay about 85 percent o...
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Section 230 is On Trial. Here's What You Need to Know.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/section-230-trial-heres-what-you-need-know
February 16, 2023, 7:36 PM
The Supreme Court next week will hear two cases — Gonzalez v. Google on Tuesday, Feb. 21, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday, Feb. 22 — that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online.  
Nearly everyone who speaks online relies on Section 230, a 1996 law that promotes free speech online. Because users rely on online intermediaries as vehicles for their speech, they can communicate to large audiences without needing financial resources or technical know-how to distribute their...
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How We Fought For and Won Access to Records About Predictive Policing in General Escobedo, Mexico
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/como-luchamos-y-ganamos-el-acceso-los-registros-sobre-la-policia-predictiva-en-una
February 16, 2023, 4:59 PM
What started with a simple public records request became a journey into the absurd depths of Mexican bureaucracy. But we emerged victorious, and learned a lot about how a city experimented with a dangerous surveillance tool.
Filing public records requests for government information is a vital tool that EFF uses to shed light on law enforcement use of surveillance technologies. When a government agency hides crucial information about their surveillance policies and practices, it harms the democr...
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EFF Backs California Bill to Protect People Seeking Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care from Dragnet Digital Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/eff-backs-california-bill-protect-people-seeking-abortion-and-gender-affirming
February 13, 2023, 11:59 PM
EFF proudly joins ACLU California Action and If/When/How to co-sponsor new California legislation to protect people seeking abortion and gender-affirming care from dragnet-style digital surveillance. A coalition of more than 25 reproductive justice, civil liberties, and privacy groups are supporting the bill at introduction. 
Support A.B. 793
Stop All Digital Dragnet Surveillance of Vulnerable People
Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) on Monday introduced AB 793, a bill to prevent unconstitu...
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Why is New York City Removing Free Broadband In Favor of Charter?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/wtf-new-york-city-remove-free-broadband-favor-charter
February 13, 2023, 10:45 PM
In January 2020, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced New York City’s Internet Master Plan, setting a path to deliver broadband for low-income New Yorkers by investing in public fiber infrastructure. The plan was a clear response to the gap created from systemic digital redlining (an industry practice EFF has called for governments to ban) that every American city deals with today. Shortly after the announcement by de Blasio, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the made the need for p...
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Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.2
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/digital-rights-updates-effector-352
February 10, 2023, 11:20 PM
Have no fear, EFF is here to keep you updated on your digital rights! Version 35, issue 2 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening to the audio version below. This issue covers the new season of our podcast, How to Fix the Internet, as well as our support for FCC  nominee Gigi Sohn, and much more.
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Uncle Sow: Dark Caracal in Latin America
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/uncle-sow-dark-caracal-latin-america
February 10, 2023, 2:58 PM
In 2018, EFF along with researchers from Lookout Security published a report describing the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) we dubbed "Dark Caracal." Now we have uncovered a new Dark Caracal campaign operating since March of 2022, with hundreds of infections across more than a dozen countries. In this report we will present evidence that the cyber mercenary group Dark Caracal is still active and continues to be focused on Latin America, as was reported last year. We have discovered that Dark Ca...
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Stalkerware Maker Fined $410k and Compelled to Notify Victims
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/stalkerware-maker-fined-410k-and-compelled-notify-victims
February 8, 2023, 7:54 PM
Last week, the New York Attorney General secured a $410,000 fine from Patrick Hinchy and 16 companies that he runs which produce and sell spyware and stalkerware. In addition, he and his companies must modify their stalkerware to alert victims that their devices have been compromised. This sends a clear message to app developers who make their money by surreptitiously installing software to spy on the devices of others: the State of New York will not tolerate your actions.
EFF has long champione...
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Participation in the Fediverse
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/participation-fediverse
February 7, 2023, 6:54 PM
Parts of the fediverse have been in something of an uproar recently over an experimental search service that was under development called (appropriately enough) Searchtodon. The project aimed to enable people to search their own home timeline and worked by being authorized by a user to access that user’s timeline via the ActivityPub API and downloading a copy of each post that is visible to that user. The service then indexed the posts and gave the user tools to search through the history of t...
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Podcast Episode: When Tech Comes to Town
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/podcast-episode-when-tech-comes-town
February 7, 2023, 1:27 PM
When a tech company moves to your city, the effects ripple far beyond just the people it employs. It can impact thousands of ancillary jobs – from teachers to nurses to construction workers – as well as the community’s housing, transportation, health care, and other businesses. And too often, these impacts can be negative. 


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Courts Must Not Allow Litigants to Plead Around The First Amendment’s Speech Protections
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/courts-must-not-allow-litigants-plead-around-first-amendments-speech-protections
February 3, 2023, 11:07 PM
Meritless defamation lawsuits can deter legal speech by forcing people to spend time and money fighting them. That is why courts must diligently protect people’s First Amendment rights by quickly dismissing claims that target people’s protected opinions.
That did not happen in a case on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Amin v. Winslow, and EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief last month describing the potential danger to speech when courts let these cases linger.
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EFF, ACLU Seek to Protect the Public’s Right to Access Judicial Records
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/aclu-eff-seek-protect-publics-right-access-judicial-records
February 2, 2023, 11:57 PM
Amicus Brief Urges the Court to Increase Transparency of SCA Warrant Requests ST. LOUIS — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of an appeal filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). The brief argues that RCFP has standing to sue to access search warrants and other materials related to the Stored Communications Act (SCA) sealed by a federal district court. The federal dis...
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The Breadth of the Fediverse
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/breadth-fediverse
February 2, 2023, 8:09 PM
The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Megan McArdle titled "Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators." The article argues that Mastodon is falling into a common trap for open source projects: building a look-alike alternative which improves things a typical user doesn’t care about, while missing elements that made the original successful.  Instead, she suggests that deposing Twitter will require something that is wholly new, and offer the masses something...
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Civil Society Organizations Call on the House Of Lords to Protect Private Messaging in the Online Safety Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/civil-society-organizations-call-house-lords-protect-private-messaging-online
February 1, 2023, 5:48 PM
As the UK's Online Safety Bill enters its Second Reading in the House of Lords, EFF, Liberty, Article 19, and Big Brother Watch are calling on Peers to protect end-to-end encryption and the right to private messaging online.
As we've said before, undermining protections for end-to-end encryption would make UK businesses and individuals less safe online, including the very groups that the Online Safety Bill intends to protect. Criminals, rogue employees, domestic abusers, and authoritarian g...
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Setting the Record Straight: EFF Statement in Support of FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/setting-record-straight-eff-statement-support-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn
January 31, 2023, 8:15 PM
In the last week, a number of dangerous and conspiracy-driven attacks were launched against EFF board member Gigi Sohn, an eminently qualified nominee to the Federal Communications Commission. These attacks attempted to twist EFF's long-held positions and commitments into dog whistles against Ms. Sohn. We’d like to set the record straight.
First, we’ve seen some outlandish headlines about EFF’s 2020 recognition of Danielle Blunt, a leader in the technology policy space and advocate for sex...
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EFF Files Amicus Briefs in Two Important Geofence Search Warrant Cases
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/eff-files-amicus-briefs-two-important-geofence-search-warrant-cases
January 31, 2023, 8:02 PM
Should the police be able to identify everyone who was in a busy metropolitan area, just because a crime occurred there? In two amicus briefs just filed in appellate courts, we argue that’s a clearly unconstitutional search.[1]
The two cases are People v. Meza, in the California Court of Appeal, and United States v. Chatrie, in the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In each case, the defendant is challenging the police use of a surveillance tool we’ve written about before called a “g...
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The FCC Broadband Maps: Meet the New Maps, Same as the Old Maps
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fcc-broadband-map-has-problems
January 31, 2023, 6:53 PM
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released their new broadband map in November 2022, many hoped the chronic inaccuracies of past FCC maps would be resolved. Previous maps of high-speed broadband access in the United States painted inaccurate pictures partly because the definitions of things like “access” and “high-speed” were, frankly, wrong. Furthermore, the maps were based on data self-reported by internet service providers, which have every interest in claiming better s...
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back on Vaccine Privacy in New York
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/two-steps-forward-one-step-back-vaccine-privacy-new-york
January 31, 2023, 5:34 PM
EFF was proud to support New York’s A. 7326/S. 6541, which the legislature passed to protect the confidentiality of medical immunity information. It limits what data can be collected or shared, who it can be shared with, and how long it can be stored. (In New York, bills must have identical versions in each chamber.) It’s important to put privacy protections in place now to ensure personal medical information is kept safe, and that that information won’t be used to harm the most vulnerabl...
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Digital Verification Systems Patents E-Signatures 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/stupid-patent-month-digital-verification-systems-patents-e-signatures
January 30, 2023, 8:00 PM
Patent trolls make patents, and argue over them. They don’t have to ever make the thing described in their patents, if it’s even possible to determine what those things are. Instead, they generate legal threats and waste the time and money of companies that do do these things. 
This month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is a great example of that. U.S. Patent No. 9,054,860 has been used by a company called Digital Verification Services, LLC, (DVS) to sue more than 50 companies that provide d...
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California Law Says Electronic Search Data Must Be Posted Online. So Where Is It?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/california-law-says-electronic-search-data-must-be-posted-online-so-where-it
January 30, 2023, 6:25 PM
Update, Feb. 27, 2023: Victory! The California Department of Justice has begun posting the data on OpenJustice.ca.gov again.
Update, Feb. 8, 2023: The California Department of Justice has provided EFF with updated search warrant data for 2020, 2021, and 2022, with personal information redacted. We have uploaded the data accordingly. An agency spokesperson said via email, "We are currently reviewing our procedures and we will follow up once the datasets are live on OpenJustice. We do not have an ...
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Brazil's Telecom Operators Made Strides and Had Shortcomings in Internet Lab's New Report on User Privacy Practices
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/brazils-telecom-operators-made-strides-and-had-shortcomings-internet-labs-new
January 27, 2023, 1:23 PM
Brazil’s biggest internet connection providers made moderate advances in protecting customer data and being transparent about their privacy practices, but fell short on meeting certain requirements for upholding users’ rights under Brazil's  data protection law, according to InternetLab’s 2022 Quem Defende Seus Dados? (Who Defends Your Data?) report.
In this seventh annual assessment of Brazil’s providers, InternetLab evaluated six companies, and looked at both their broadband and mobi...
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EFF Tells Supreme Court: User Speech Must Be Protected
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/eff-tells-supreme-court-user-speech-must-be-protected
January 25, 2023, 10:37 PM
The Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online. EFF has filed a brief explaining what’s at stake, and urging the court to preserve the key law protecting user expression, 47 U.S.C § 230 (Section 230).
In Gonzalez v. Google, the petitioning plaintiffs make a radical argument about Section 230. They have asked the Supreme Court to rule that Section 230 doesn’t protect recommendations we get online, or how certain content gets arranged an...
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The Next Stage in Security Expert’s Trial Set for January 31
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/next-stage-security-experts-trial-set-january-31
January 24, 2023, 7:45 PM
Swedish computer security expert Ola Bini was arrested in April, 2019, in Ecuador, and a cloud has hung over his case ever since. Bini's case has been impacted  by numerous due process violations and human rights concerns, and there have been suspensions or delays at nearly every stage of his trial. EFF conducted a fact-finding mission into the case in 2019 and found that the allegations against Bini–who is known globally as a computer security expert, and a contributor to free software proje...
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Podcast Episode: Don't Be Afraid to Poke the Tigers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/podcast-episode-dont-be-afraid-poke-tigers
January 24, 2023, 1:15 PM
What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, it symbolizes the boundless motivation, excitement, and innovation that can be unlocked if people have the rights to repair, tinker, and create. 
Huang believes that to truly unleash innovation that betters everyone, we must replace our current patent and copyright culture with one that truly values making products better, ch...
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For Would-Be Censors and the Thin-Skinned, Copyright Law Offers Powerful Tools
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/would-be-censors-and-thin-skinned-copyright-law-offers-powerful-tools
January 20, 2023, 8:37 PM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Yesterday, we wrote about the importance of fair use as a safeguard for free expression. But all too often, fair use and other legal limits on copyr...
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Right to Repair Advocates Have Had Good Victories. We Have To Keep Fighting.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/right-repair-advocates-have-had-good-victories-we-have-keep-fighting
January 20, 2023, 4:56 PM
It’s been a good year for right to repair advocates. Colorado passed an important law to allow wheelchair users access to resources they need to fix their own chairs. The Federal Trade Commission has stepped up enforcement of companies that limit the right to repair. And New York made history by passing the first broad consumer right to repair legislation at the end of 2022, requiring some digital electronics manufacturers to provide access to parts, tools, and information necessary for repair...
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Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fair-use-creep-feature-not-bug
January 19, 2023, 8:09 PM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of ...
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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/have-you-tried-turning-it-and-again-rethinking-tech-regulation-and-creative-labor
January 19, 2023, 7:16 PM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was whic...
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Open Data and the AI Black Box
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/open-data-and-ai-black-box
January 19, 2023, 12:32 AM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) grabs headlines with new tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, but it is already here and having major impacts on our lives. ...
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Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.1
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/digital-rights-updates-effector-351
January 17, 2023, 9:48 PM
It's a new year! There's no better time to keep up with the latest updates on your digital rights. Version 35, issue 1 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening to the audio version below. This issue covers a collection of EFF's 2022 Year in Review posts (seriously, there are a lot of them!) as well as some upcoming events EFF will be attending and even new job postings.
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US Copyright Term Extensions Have Stopped, But the Public Domain Still Faces Threats
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/us-copyright-term-extensions-have-stopped-public-domain-still-faces-threats
January 16, 2023, 10:50 PM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Every January 1st, we celebrate the creative works that become free to use and adapt as their copyright expires. This year, that includes the iconic...
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It’s Copyright Week 2023: Join Us in the Fight for Better Copyright Law and Policy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/its-copyright-week-2023-join-us-fight-better-copyright-law-and-policy
January 16, 2023, 5:50 PM
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
One of the interesting side effects of the internet is that more people than ever are aware of copyright. Pretty much everyone online has seen some ...
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Kurt Opsahl Moves to EFF Special Counsel
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/kurt-opsahl-moves-eff-special-counsel
January 12, 2023, 6:13 PM
Longtime EFFer and Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl will be moving on from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after nearly 20 years, on February 1. But we aren’t going to let him go too far: Kurt will continue on as a Special Counsel of EFF.  Kurt will be joining the Filecoin Foundation as Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy.
Kurt joined EFF in 2004, and has been a key part of nearly every big fight for digital rights since then. Ove...
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