Four Voices You Should Hear this International Women’s Day
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-voices-you-should-hear-international-womens-day
March 8, 2024, 10:15 PM
Around the globe, freedom of expression varies wildly in definition, scope, and level of access. The impact of the digital age on perceptions and censorship of speech has been felt across the political spectrum on a worldwide scale. In the debate over what counts as free expression and how it should work in practice, we often lose sight of how different forms of censorship can have a negative impact on different communities, and especially marginalized or vulnerable ones. This International Wome...
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Four Actions You Can Take To Protect Digital Rights this International Women’s Day
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-actions-you-can-take-protect-digital-rights-international-womens-day
March 8, 2024, 10:09 PM
This International Women’s Day, defend free speech, fight surveillance, and support innovation by calling on our elected politicians and private companies to uphold our most fundamental rights—both online and offline.
1. Pass the “My Body, My Data” Act
Privacy fears should never stand in the way of healthcare. That's why this common-sense federal bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs, will require businesses and non-governmental organizations to act responsibly with personal informat...
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Four Infosec Tools for Resistance this International Women’s Day 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-infosec-tools-resistance-international-womens-day
March 8, 2024, 10:03 PM
While online violence is alarmingly common globally, women are often more likely to be the target of mass online attacks, nonconsensual leaks of sensitive information and content, and other forms of online violence. 
This International Women’s Day, visit EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) to learn how to defend yourself and your friends from surveillance. In addition to tutorials for installing and using security-friendly software, SSD walks you through concepts like making a security pl...
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Four Reasons to Protect the Internet this International Women’s Day
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-reasons-protect-internet-international-womens-day
March 8, 2024, 9:55 PM
Today is International Women’s Day, a day celebrating the achievements of women globally but also a day marking a call to action for accelerating equality and improving the lives of women the world over. 
The internet is a vital tool for women everywhere—provided they have access and are able to use it freely. Here are four reasons why we’re working to protect the free and open internet for women and everyone.
1. The Fight For Reproductive Privacy and Information Access Is Not Over
Data p...
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The Atlas of Surveillance Removes Ring, Adds Third-Party Investigative Platforms
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/atlas-surveillance-removes-ring-adds-third-party-investigative-platforms
March 8, 2024, 9:32 PM
Running the Atlas of Surveillance, our project to map and inventory police surveillance across the United States, means experiencing emotional extremes.
Whenever we announce that we've added new data points to the Atlas, it comes with a great sense of satisfaction. That's because it almost always means that we're hundreds or even thousands of steps closer to achieving what only a few years ago would've seemed impossible: comprehensively documenting the surveillance state through our partnership...
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Victory! EFF Helps Resist Unlawful Warrant and Gag Order Issued to Independent News Outlet
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/victory-eff-helps-resist-unlawful-warrant-and-gag-order-issued-independent-news
March 7, 2024, 8:44 PM
Over the past month, the independent news outlet Indybay has quietly fought off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department. Today, a court lifted the gag order and confirmed the warrant is void. The police also promised the court to not seek another warrant from Indybay in its investigation.
Nevertheless, Indybay was unconstitutionally gagged from speaking about the warrant for more than a month. And the SFPD once again violated the law despite past as...
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Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/should-caddy-and-traefik-replace-certbot
March 7, 2024, 5:25 PM
Can free and open source software projects like Caddy and Traefik eventually replace EFF’s Certbot? Although Certbot continues to be developed, we think tools like these help offer a promising path forward in the further development of a secure and encrypted web. For some users, tools like these can replace Certbot completely. 
We started development on Certbot in the mid-2010s with the goal of making it as easy as possible for website operators to offer HTTPS. To accomplish this, we made Cer...
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Privacy First and Competition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/privacy-first-and-competition
March 6, 2024, 6:09 PM
“Privacy First” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first?
Whether you’re worried about kids’ mental health, or tech’s relationship to journalism, or spying by foreign adversaries, or reproductive rights, or AI deepfakes, or nonconsensual pornography, you’re worried about a problem rooted in the primitive, deplorable state of American privacy law.
It’s really impossible to overstate ...
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European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental
March 5, 2024, 2:09 PM
In a milestone judgment—Podchasov v. Russia—the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that weakening of encryption can lead to general and indiscriminate surveillance of the communications of all users and violates the human right to privacy.  
In 2017, the landscape of digital communication in Russia faced a pivotal moment when the government required Telegram Messenger LLP and other “internet communication” providers to store all communication data—and content—for speci...
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Voting No on Prop E Is Easy and Important for San Francisco
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/voting-no-prop-e-easy-and-important-san-francisco
March 4, 2024, 10:11 PM
San Francisco’s ballot initiative Proposition E is a dangerous and deceptive measure that threatens our privacy, safety, and democratic ideals. It would give the police more power to surveil, chase, and harm. It would allow the police to secretly acquire and use unproven surveillance technologies for a year or more without oversight, eliminating the hard-won protections backed by a majority of San Franciscans that are currently in place. Prop E is not a solution to the city’s challenges, but...
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Celebrating 15 Years of Surveillance Self-Defense
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/celebrating-15-years-surveillance-self-defense
March 4, 2024, 6:59 PM
On March 3rd, 2009, we launched Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD). At the time, we pitched it as, "an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying." In the last decade hundreds of people have contributed to SSD, over 20 million people have read it, and the content has nearly doubled in length from 40,000 words to almost 80,000. SSD has served as inspiration for many other guides focused on keeping specific populations safe, and those guides have in turn affected h...
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | EFFector 36.3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/privacy-isnt-dead-far-it-effector-363
March 4, 2024, 6:31 PM
As we continue the journey of fighting for digital freedoms, it can be hard to keep up on the latest happenings. Thankfully, EFF has a guide to keep you in the loop! EFFector 36.3 is out now and covers the latest news, including recent changes to the Kids Online Safety Act (spoiler alert: IT'S STILL BAD), why we flew a plane over San Francisco, and the first episode of Season 5 of our award-winning "How to Fix the Internet" podcast!
You can read the full newsletter here, or subscribe to get the ...
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A Virtual Reality Tour of Surveillance Tech at the Border: A Conversation with Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/virtual-reality-tour-surveillance-tech-border-conversation-dave-maass-electronic
March 4, 2024, 5:13 PM
This interview is crossposted from The Markup, a nonprofit news organization that investigates technology and its impact on society.
By: Monique O. Madan, Investigative Reporter at The Markup
After reading my daily news stories amid his declining health, my grandfather made it a habit of traveling the world—all from his desk and wheelchair. When I went on trips, he always had strong opinions and recommendations for me, as if he’d already been there. “I've traveled to hundreds of countrie...
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Ghana's President Must Refuse to Sign the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/ghanas-president-must-refuse-sign-anti-lgbtq-bill
February 29, 2024, 10:52 PM
After three years of political discussions, MPs in Ghana's Parliament voted to pass the country’s draconian Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill on February 28th. The bill now heads to Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo to be signed into law. 
President Nana Akufo-Addo must protect the human rights of all people in Ghana and refuse to provide assent to the bill.
This anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduces prison sentences for those who partake in LGBTQ+ sexual ...
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We Flew a Plane Over San Francisco to Fight Proposition E. Here's Why.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/yes-we-flew-plane-over-san-francisco-fight-proposition-eheres-why
February 29, 2024, 8:19 PM
Proposition E, which San Franciscans will be asked to vote on in the March 5 election, is so dangerous that last weekend we chartered a plane to inform our neighbors about what the ballot measure does and urge them to vote NO on it. If you were in Dolores Park, Golden Gate Park, Chinatown, or anywhere in between on Saturday, there’s a chance you saw it, with a huge banner flying through the sky: “No Surveillance State! No on Prop E.”
Despite the fact that the San Francisco Chronicle has en...
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Sen. Wyden Exposes Data Brokers Selling Location Data to Anti-Abortion Groups That Target Abortion Seekers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/sen-wyden-exposes-data-brokers-selling-location-data-anti-abortion-groups-target
February 28, 2024, 12:58 AM
This post was written by Jack Beck, an EFF legal intern
In a recent letter to the FTC and SEC, Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) details new information on data broker Near, which sold the location data of people seeking reproductive healthcare to anti-abortion groups. Near enabled these groups to send targeted ads promoting anti-abortion content to people who had visited Planned Parenthood and similar clinics.
In May 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that Near was selling location data to anti-abortion ...
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EFF to D.C. Circuit: The U.S. Government’s Forced Disclosure of Visa Applicants’ Social Media Identifiers Harms Free Speech and Privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-dc-circuit-us-governments-forced-disclosure-visa-applicants-social-media
February 27, 2024, 9:24 PM
Special thanks to legal intern Alissa Johnson, who was the lead author of this post.
EFF recently filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit urging the court to reverse a lower court decision upholding a State Department rule that forces visa applicants to the United States to disclose their social media identifiers as part of the application process. If upheld, the district court ruling has severe implications for free speech and privacy not just for visa applicants...
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Podcast Episode: Open Source Beats Authoritarianism
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism
February 27, 2024, 8:07 AM
What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concerns and preferences are elicited in a way that respects each person’s community, dignity, and importance?


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EFF Statement on Nevada's Attack on End-to-End Encryption
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-statement-nevadas-attack-end-end-encryption
February 26, 2024, 7:39 PM
EFF learned last week that the state of Nevada is seeking an emergency order prohibiting Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger for all users in the state under the age of 18. The motion for a temporary restraining order is part of a lawsuit by the state Attorney General alleging that Meta’s products are deceptively designed to keep users addicted to the platform. While we regularly fight legal attempts to limit social media access, which are primarily based on murky...
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EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reinstate X’s Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional California Content Moderation Law
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-urges-ninth-circuit-reinstate-xs-legal-challenge-unconstitutional-california
February 23, 2024, 9:06 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to reinstate X’s lawsuit challenging a California law that forces social media companies to file reports to the state about their content moderation decisions, and with respect to five controversial issues in particular—an unconstitutional intrusion into platforms’ right to curate hosted speech free of government interference.
While we are enthusiastic proponents of transparency and have worked, through the Santa Clara ...
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EFF Opposes California Initiative That Would Cause Mass Censorship
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-opposes-california-initiative-would-cause-mass-censorship
February 23, 2024, 5:37 PM
In recent years, lots of proposed laws purport to reduce “harmful” content on the internet, especially for kids. Some have good intentions. But the fact is, we can’t censor our way to a healthier internet.
When it comes to online (or offline) content, people simply don’t agree about what’s harmful. And people make mistakes, even in content moderation systems that have extensive human review and appropriate appeals. The systems get worse when automated filters are brought into the mix�...
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As India Prepares for Elections, Government Silences Critics on X with Executive Order
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/india-prepares-elections-government-silences-critics-x-executive-order
February 23, 2024, 11:55 AM
It is troubling to see that the Indian government has issued new demands to X (formerly Twitter) to remove accounts and posts critical of the government and its recent actions. This is especially bears watching as India is preparing for general elections this spring, and concerns for the government’s manipulation of social media critical of it grows.
On Wednesday, X’s Global Government Affairs account (@GlobalAffairs) tweeted:
The Indian government has issued executive orders requiring X to ...
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Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution of a Journalist?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/justice-department-even-following-its-own-policy-cybercrime-prosecution-journalist
February 23, 2024, 12:38 AM
Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and EFF joined a letter calling on the Justice Department to explain whether and how it believed Burke had actually engaged in wrongdoing. Although the government has now charged Burke...
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NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/nsa-spying-shirts-are-back-just-time-tell-congress-reform-section-702
February 22, 2024, 6:43 PM
We’ve been challenging the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of ordinary people since we first became aware of it nearly twenty years ago. Since then, tens of thousands of supporters have joined the call to fight what became Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, a law which was supposed to enable overseas surveillance of specific targets, but has become a backdoor way of mass spying on the communications of people in the U.S. Now, Section 702 is back up for a major renewal since i...
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Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute's Report on Electronic Monitoring
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/unregulated-exploitative-and-rise-vera-institutes-report-electronic-monitoring
February 21, 2024, 9:04 PM
Incarceration rates in the United States have long been among the highest in the world, and in response to the systemic flaws and biases unveiled by the renewed scrutiny of the criminal legal system, many advocates have championed new policies aimed at reducing sentences and improving conditions in prisons. Some have touted the use of electronic monitoring (EM) as an alternative fix to ensure that people whose cases have yet to be adjudicated are not physically detained. Unsurprisingly, those mo...
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Defending Access to the Decentralized Web
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/defending-access-decentralized-web
February 20, 2024, 7:51 PM
Decentralized web technologies have the potential to make the internet more robust and efficient, supporting a new wave of innovation. However, the fundamental technologies and services that make it work are already being hit with overreaching legal threats.
Exhibit A: the Interplanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS operates via a “distributed hash table,” essentially a way to look up the number (or “hash”) corresponding to a given file and see which network locations have chosen to offer th...
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Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
February 15, 2024, 10:27 PM
The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not like. We are asking everyone reading this to oppose this latest version, and to demand that their representatives oppose it—even if you have already done so. 
TAKE ACTION
TELL CONGRESS: OPPOSE THE KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT
KOSA remains a dangerous bill tha...
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Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/hip-hip-hooray-hipster-antitrust
February 14, 2024, 11:58 PM
Don’t believe the hype.
The undeniable fact is that the FTC has racked up a long list of victories over corporate abuses, like busting a nationwide, decades-long fraud that tricked people into paying for “free” tax preparation.
The wheels of justice grind slowly, so many of the actions the FTC has brought are still pending. But these actions are significant. In tandem with the Department of Justice, it is suing over fake apartment listings, blocking noncompete clauses, targeting fake onlin...
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EFF to Court: Strike Down Age Estimation in California But Not Consumer Privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-court-strike-down-age-estimation-california-not-consumer-privacy
February 14, 2024, 11:44 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called on the Ninth Circuit to rule that California’s Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) violates the First Amendment, while not casting doubt on well-written data privacy laws. EFF filed an amicus brief in the case NetChoice v. Bonta, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology.
A lower court already ruled the law is likely unconstitutional. EFF agrees, but we asked the appeals court to chart a narrower path. EFF argued the AADC’s age estima...
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/privacy-isnt-dead-far-it
February 14, 2024, 12:07 AM
Welcome! 
The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to protect it, no matter how hard you try. Perhaps you think “privacy is dead.” 
We’ve all probably felt a little bit like you do at one time or another. At its worst, this feeling might be descri...
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Voting Against the Surveillance State | EFFector 36.2
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/voting-against-surveillance-state-effector-362
February 12, 2024, 6:48 PM
EFF is here to keep you up-to-date with the latest news about your digital rights! EFFector 36.2 is out now and covers a ton of the latest news, including: a victory, as Amazon's Ring will no longer facilitate warrantless footage requests from police; an analysis on Apple's announcement to support RCS on iPhones; and a call for San Francisco voters to vote no on Proposition E on the March 5, 2024 ballot.
You can read the full newsletter here, or subscribe to get the next issue in your inbox auto...
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EFF Helps News Organizations Push Back Against Legal Bullying from Cyber Mercenary Group
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-helps-news-organizations-resist-legal-bullying-cyber-mercenary-group
February 8, 2024, 11:47 PM
Cyber mercenaries present a grave threat to human rights and freedom of expression. They have been implicated in surveillance, torture, and even murder of human rights defenders, political candidates, and journalists. One of the most effective ways that the human rights community pushes back against the threat of targeted surveillance and cyber mercenaries is to investigate and expose these companies and their owners and customers. 
But for the last several months, there has emerged a campaign ...
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Protect Good Faith Security Research Globally in Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/protect-good-faith-security-research-globally-proposed-un-cybercrime-treaty
February 7, 2024, 3:57 PM
Statement submitted to the UN Ad Hoc Committee Secretariat by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, accredited under operative paragraph No. 9 of UN General Assembly Resolution 75/282, on behalf of 124 signatories.
We, the undersigned, representing a broad spectrum of the global security research community, write to express our serious concerns about the UN Cybercrime Treaty drafts released during the sixth session and the most recent one. These drafts pose substantial risks to global cybersecur...
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Draft UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Make Security Research a Crime, Leading 124 Experts to Call on UN Delegates to Fix Flawed Provisions that Weaken Everyone’s Security
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/draft-un-cybercrime-treaty-could-make-security-research-crime-leading-124-experts
February 7, 2024, 3:56 PM
Security researchers’ work discovering and reporting vulnerabilities in software, firmware,  networks, and devices protects people, businesses and governments around the world from malware, theft of  critical data, and other cyberattacks. The internet and the digital ecosystem are safer because of their work.The UN Cybercrime Treaty, which is in the final stages of drafting in New York this week, risks criminalizing this vitally important work. This is appalling and wrong, and must be fixed....
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What is Proposition E and Why Should San Francisco Voters Oppose It?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what-proposition-e-and-why-should-san-francisco-voters-oppose-it
February 2, 2024, 11:39 PM
If you live in San Francisco, there is an election on March 5, 2024 during which voters will decide a number of specific local ballot measures—including Proposition E. Proponents of Proposition E have raised over $1 million …but what does the measure actually do? This will break down what the initiative actually does, why it is dangerous for San Franciscans, and why you should oppose it.
What Does Proposition E Do?
Proposition E is a “kitchen sink" approach to public safety that capitali...
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San Francisco Police’s Live Surveillance Yields Almost 200 Hours of Spying–Including of Music Festivals
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/san-francisco-polices-live-surveillance-yields-almost-200-hours-spying-including
February 2, 2024, 9:21 PM
A new report reveals that in just three months, from July 1 to September 30, 2023,  the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) racked up 193 hours and 19 minutes of live access to non-city surveillance cameras. That means for the equivalent of 8 days, police sat behind a desk and tapped into hundreds of cameras, ostensibly including San Francisco’s extensive semi-private security camera networks, to watch city residents, workers, and visitors live. An article by the San Francisco Chronicle an...
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Worried About AI Voice Clone Scams? Create a Family Password
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/worried-about-ai-voice-clone-scams-create-family-password
February 1, 2024, 12:42 AM
Your grandfather receives a call late at night from a person pretending to be you. The caller says that you are in jail or have been kidnapped and that they need money urgently to get you out of trouble. Perhaps they then bring on a fake police officer or kidnapper to heighten the tension. The money, of course, should be wired right away to an unfamiliar account at an unfamiliar bank. 
It’s a classic and common scam, and like many scams it relies on a scary, urgent scenario to override the v...
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What Apple's Promise to Support RCS Means for Text Messaging
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/what-apples-promise-support-rcs-means-text-messaging
January 31, 2024, 9:51 PM
You may have heard recently that Apple is planning to implement Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhones, once again igniting the green versus blue bubble debate. RCS will thankfully bring a number of long-missing features to those green bubble conversations in Messages, but Apple's proposed implementation has a murkier future when it comes to security. 
The RCS standard will replace SMS, the protocol behind basic everyday text messages, and MMS, the protocol for sending pictures in text m...
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Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/dozens-rogue-california-police-agencies-still-sharing-driver-locations-anti-abortion
January 31, 2024, 7:56 PM
Civil Liberties Groups Urge Attorney General Bonta to Enforce California's Automated License Plate Reader LawsSAN FRANCISCO—California Attorney General Rob Bonta should crack down on police agencies that still violate Californians’ privacy by sharing automated license plate reader information with out-of-state government agencies, putting abortion seekers and providers at particular risk, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the state’s American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) af...
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EFF and Access Now's Submission to U.N. Expert on Anti-LGBTQ+ Repression 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/eff-and-access-now-submission-un-expert-anti-lgbtq-repression
January 31, 2024, 3:06 PM
As part of the United Nations (U.N.) Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (IE SOGI) report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, EFF and Access Now have submitted information addressing digital rights and SOGI issues across the globe. 
The submission addresses the trends, challenges, and problems that people and civil society organizations face based on their real and perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, and ...
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In Final Talks on Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, EFF Calls on Delegates to Incorporate Protections Against Spying and Restrict Overcriminalization or Reject Convention
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/final-talks-proposed-un-cybercrime-treaty-eff-calls-delegates-incorporate
January 29, 2024, 5:42 PM
Update: Delegates at the concluding negotiating session failed to reach consensus on human rights protections, government surveillance, and other key issues. The session was suspended Feb. 8 without a final draft text. Delegates will resume talks at a later day with a view to concluding their work and providing a draft convention to the UN General Assembly at its 78th session later this year.
UN Member States are meeting in New York this week to conclude negotiations over the final text of the ...
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More Than a Decade Later, Site-Blocking Is Still Censorship
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/more-decade-later-site-blocking-still-censorship
January 26, 2024, 7:45 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, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
As Copyright Week comes to a close, it’s worth remembering why we have it in January. Twelve years ago, a diverse coalition of internet users, websites...
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Save Your Twitter Account
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/save-your-twitter-account
January 26, 2024, 12:02 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, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
Amid reports that X—the site formerly known as Twitter—is dropping in value, hindering how people use the site, and engaging in controversial account...
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Tell the FTC: It's Time to Act on the Right to Repair
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/tell-ftc-its-time-act-right-repair
January 25, 2024, 11:22 PM
Update: The FTC  is no longer accepting comments for this rulemaking. More than 1,600 comments were filed in the proceeding, with many of you sharing your personal stories about why you support the right to repair. Thank you for taking action!
Do you care about being able to fix and modify your stuff? Then it's time to speak up and tell the Federal Trade Commission that you care about your right to repair.
As we have said before, you own what you buy—and you should be able do what you want wi...
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San Francisco: Vote No on Proposition E to Stop Police from Testing Dangerous Surveillance Technology on You
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/san-francisco-vote-no-proposition-e-stop-police-testing-dangerous-surveillance
January 25, 2024, 6:14 PM
San Francisco voters will confront a looming threat to their privacy and civil liberties on the March 5, 2024 ballot. If Proposition E passes, we can expect the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) will use untested and potentially dangerous technology on the public, any time they want, for a full year without oversight. How do we know this? Because the text of the proposition explicitly permits this, and because a city government proponent of the measure has publicly said as much.

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What Home Videotaping Can Tell Us About Generative AI
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/what-home-videotaping-can-tell-us-about-generative-ai
January 24, 2024, 9:04 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, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
It’s 1975. Earth, Wind and Fire rule the airwaves, Jaws is on every theater screen, All In the Family is must-see TV, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen are...
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Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users
January 24, 2024, 7:09 PM
Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police's warrantless requests for footage from Ring users. This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more easily access companies’ users and their data—all of which ultimately undermine their customers’ trust.
This announcement will also not stop police from trying to get Ri...
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Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/fragging-subscription-model-comes-gamers
January 24, 2024, 12:24 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, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation.
The video game industry is undergoing the same concerning changes we’ve seen before with film and TV, and it underscores the need for meaningful digita...
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FTC Bars X-Mode from Selling Sensitive Location Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ftc-bars-x-mode-selling-sensitive-location-data
January 23, 2024, 11:51 PM
Update, January 23, 2024: Another week, another win! The FTC announced a successful enforcement action against another location data broker, InMarket.
Phone app location data brokers are a growing menace to our privacy and safety. All you did was click a box while downloading an app. Now the app tracks your every move and sends it to a broker, which then sells your location data to the highest bidder, from advertisers to police.
So it is welcome news that the Federal Trade Commission has brought...
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EFF and More Than 100+ NGOS Set Non-Negotiable Redlines Ahead of UN Cybercrime Treaty Negotiations
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/eff-and-more-100-ngos-set-non-negotiable-redlines-ahead-un-cybercrime-treaty
January 23, 2024, 2:44 PM
EFF has joined forces with 110 NGOs today in a joint statement delivered to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, clearly outlining civil society non-negotiable redlines for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, and asserting that states should reject the proposed treaty if these essential changes are not implemented. 
The last draft published on November 6, 2023 does not adequately ensure adherence to human rights law and standards. Initially focused on cybercrime, the proposed Treaty has alarmin...
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