"Infrastructures of Control": Q&A with the Geographers Behind University of Arizona's Border Surveillance Photo Exhibition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/infrastructures-control-qa-geographers-behind-university-arizonas-border
April 5, 2024, 7:50 PM
Guided by EFF's map of Customs & Border Protection surveillance towers, University of Arizona geographers Colter Thomas and Dugan Meyer have been methodologically traversing the U.S.-Mexico border and photographing the infrastructure that comprises the so-called "virtual wall." Anduril Sentry tower beside the Rio Grande River. Photo by Colter Thomas (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
From April 12-26, their outdoor exhibition "Infrastructures of Control" will be on display on the University of Arizona campus...
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Federal Court Dimisses X's Anti-Speech Lawsuit Against Watchdog
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/federal-court-dimisses-xs-anti-speech-lawsuit-against-watchdog
April 5, 2024, 1:01 PM
This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Melda Gurakar.
Researchers, journalists, and everyone else has a First Amendment right to criticize social media platforms and their content moderation practices without fear of being targeted by retaliatory lawsuits, a federal court recently ruled.
The decision by a federal court in California to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s X against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting online ha...
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The White House is Wrong: Section 702 Needs Drastic Change
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/white-house-wrong-section-702-needs-drastic-change
April 4, 2024, 5:13 PM
With Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire later this month, the White House recently released a memo objecting to the SAFE Act—legislation introduced by Senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee that would reauthorize Section 702 with some reforms. The White House is wrong. SAFE is a bipartisan bill that may be our most realistic chance of reforming a dangerous NSA mass surveillance program that even the federal government’s privacy watchdog and the White House itse...
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In Historic Victory for Human Rights in Colombia, Inter-American Court Finds State Agencies Violated Human Rights of Lawyers Defending Activists
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/historic-victory-human-rights-colombia-inter-american-court-finds-state-agencies
April 3, 2024, 7:22 PM
In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted members of a lawyer’s group that defends human rights defenders, activists, and indigenous people, putting the attorneys’ lives at risk. 
The ruling is a major victory for civil rights in Colombia, which has a long history of abuse and violence against human rights defenders, including murders and death...
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Speaking Freely: Emma Shapiro
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/speaking-freely-emma-shapiro
April 2, 2024, 8:38 PM
Emma Shapiro is an American artist, writer, and activist who is based in Valencia, Spain. She is the Editor-At-Large for the Don’t Delete Art campaign and the founder of the international art project and movement Exposure Therapy. Her work includes the use of video, collage, performance, and photography, while primarily using her own body and image. Through her use of layered video projection, self portraiture, and repeated encounters with her own image, Emma deconstructs and questions the mea...
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Ola Bini Faces Ecuadorian Prosecutors Seeking to Overturn Acquittal of Cybercrime Charge
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/ola-bini-faces-ecuadorian-prosecutors-seeking-overturn-acquittal-cybercrime-charge
April 1, 2024, 4:21 PM
Ola Bini, the software developer acquitted last year of cybercrime charges in a unanimous verdict in Ecuador, was back in court last week in Quito as prosecutors, using the same evidence that helped clear him, asked an appeals court to overturn the decision with bogus allegations of unauthorized access of a telecommunications system. Armed with a grainy image of a telnet session—which the lower court already ruled was not proof of criminal activity—and testimony of an expert witness to the l...
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U.S. Supreme Court Does Not Go Far Enough in Determining When Government Officials Are Barred from Censoring Critics on Social Media
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/us-supreme-court-does-not-go-far-enough-determining-when-government-officials-are
March 29, 2024, 9:45 PM
After several years of litigation across the federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has finally crafted a test that lower courts can use to determine whether a government official engaged in “state action” such that censoring individuals on the official’s social media page—even if also used for personal purposes—would violate the First Amendment.
The case, Lindke v. Freed, came out of the Sixth Circuit and involves a city manager, while a companion case...
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Restricting Flipper is a Zero Accountability Approach to Security: Canadian Government Response to Car Hacking
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government
March 29, 2024, 3:30 AM
On February 8, François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada would ban devices used in keyless car theft. The only device mentioned by name was the Flipper Zero—the multitool device that can be used to test, explore, and debug different wireless protocols such as RFID, NFC, infrared, and Bluetooth.
EFF explores toilet hacking
While it is useful as a penetration testing device, Flipper Zero is impractical in comparison to other, more ...
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EFF Asks Oregon Supreme Court Not to Limit Fourth Amendment Rights Based on Terms of Service
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-asks-oregon-supreme-court-not-limit-fourth-amendemtn-rights-based-terms
March 28, 2024, 12:26 AM
This post was drafted by EFF legal intern Alissa Johnson.
EFF signed on to an amicus brief drafted by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers earlier this month petitioning the Oregon Supreme Court to review State v. Simons, a case involving law enforcement surveillance of over a year’s worth of private internet activity. We ask that the Court join the Ninth Circuit in recognizing that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their browsing histories, and that checking a...
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Meta Oversight Board’s Latest Policy Opinion a Step in the Right Direction
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/meta-oversight-boards-latest-policy-opinion-step-right-direction
March 26, 2024, 7:11 PM
EFF welcomes the latest and long-awaited policy advisory opinion from Meta’s Oversight Board calling on the company to end its blanket ban on the use of the Arabic-language term “shaheed” when referring to individuals listed under Meta’s policy on dangerous organizations and individuals and calls on Meta to fully implement the Board’s recommendations.
Since the Meta Oversight Board was created in 2020 as an appellate body designed to review select contested content moderation decisions...
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Speaking Freely: Robert Ssempala
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/speaking-freely-robert-ssempala
March 26, 2024, 6:07 PM
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 
Robert Ssempala is a longtime press freedom and social justice advocate. He serves as Executive Director at Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda, a network of journalists in Uganda working towards enhancing the promotion, protection, and respect of human rights through defending and building the capacities of journalists, to effectively exercise their constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms for collective campaigning through...
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Podcast Episode: About Face (Recognition)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition
March 26, 2024, 7:05 AM
Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though it’s primarily used by law enforcement, should we have to worry that the eavesdropper at the next restaurant table, or the creep who’s bothering you in the bar, or the protestor outside the abortion clinic can surreptitiously...
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No KOSA, No TikTok Ban | EFFector 36.4
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/no-kosa-no-tiktok-ban-effector-364
March 25, 2024, 5:32 PM
Want to hear about the latest news in digital rights? Well, you're in luck! EFFector 36.4 is out now and covers the latest topics, including our stance on the unconstitutional TikTok ban (spoiler: it's bad), a victory helping Indybay resist an unlawful search warrant and gag order, and thought-provoking comments we got from thousands of young people regarding the Kids Online Safety Act.
You can read the full newsletter here, or subscribe to get the next issue in your inbox automatically! You can...
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Responding to ShotSpotter, Police Shoot at Child Lighting Fireworks
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/responding-shotspotter-police-shoot-child-lighting-fireworks
March 22, 2024, 11:10 PM
This post was written by Rachel Hochhauser, an EFF legal intern
We’ve written multiple times about the inaccurate and dangerous “gunshot detection” tool, Shotspotter. A recent near-tragedy in Chicago adds to the growing pile of evidence that cities should drop the product.
On January 25, while responding to a ShotSpotter alert, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed “maybe 14 or 15” year old child in his backyard. Three officers approached the boy’s house, with one asking...
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Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas
March 22, 2024, 3:52 PM
In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force in California recently employed the new practice of taking a DNA sample from a crime scene, running this through a service provided by US company Parabon NanoLabs that guesses what the perpetrators f...
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EFF and 34 Civil Society Organizations Call on Ghana’s President to Reject the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-and-34-civil-society-organizations-call-ghanas-president-reject-anti-lgbtq
March 22, 2024, 12:42 PM
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. 
EFF has joined 34 civil society organizations to demand that President Akufo-Addo vetoes the Family Values Bill.
The legislation criminalizes being LGBTQ+ or an ally of LGBTQ+ people, and also imposes custodial sentences for users and social media compa...
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Disinformation and Elections: EFF and ARTICLE 19 Submit Key Recommendations to EU Commission
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/disinformation-and-elections-eff-and-article-19-submit-key-recommendations-eu
March 21, 2024, 6:35 PM
Global Elections and Platform Responsibility
This year is a major one for elections around the world, with pivotal races in the U.S., the UK, the European Union, Russia, and India, to name just a few. Social media platforms play a crucial role in democratic engagement by enabling users to participate in public discourse and by providing access to information, especially as public figures increasingly engage with voters directly. Unfortunately elections also attract a sometimes dangerous am...
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EFF Seeks Greater Public Access to Patent Lawsuit Filed in Texas
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-seeks-greater-public-access-patent-lawsuit-filed-texas
March 20, 2024, 7:26 PM
You’re not supposed to be able to litigate in secret in the U.S. That’s especially true in a patent case dealing with technology that most internet users rely on every day.
 Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening in a case called Entropic Communications, LLC v. Charter Communications, Inc. The parties have made so much of their dispute secret that it is hard to tell how the patents owned by Entropic might affect the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) stand...
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The Tech Apocalypse Panic is Driven by AI Boosters, Military Tacticians, and Movies
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-avoid-ai-apocalypse-one-easy-step
March 20, 2024, 2:36 PM
There has been a tremendous amount of hand wringing and nervousness about how so-called artificial intelligence might end up destroying the world. The fretting has only gotten worse as a result of a U.S. State Department-commissioned report on the security risk of weaponized AI.
Whether these messages come from popular films like a War Games or The Terminator, reports that in digital simulations AI supposedly favors the nuclear option more than it should, or the idea that AI could assess nuclear...
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Lucy Parsons Labs Takes Police Foundation to Court for Open Records Requests
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/lucy-parsons-labs-takes-police-foundation-court-open-records-requests
March 19, 2024, 10:55 PM
The University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic has filed an Open Records Request lawsuit to demand public records from the private Atlanta Police Foundation (APF). The lawsuit, filed at the behest of the Atlanta Community Press Collective and Electronic Frontier Alliance-member Lucy Parsons Labs, is seeking records relating to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which activists refer to as Cop City. While the facility will be used for public law enforcement and e...
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Speaking Freely: Maryam Al-Khawaja
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/speaking-freely-maryam-al-khawaja
March 19, 2024, 6:35 PM
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Maryam Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender who works as a consultant and trainer on Human Rights. She is a leading voice for human rights and political reform in Bahrain and the Gulf region. She has been influential in shaping official responses to human rights atrocities in Bahrain and the Gulf region by leading campaigns and engaging with prominent policymakers around the world.
She played an instrumental role in the pr...
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Decoding the California DMV's Mobile Driver's License
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/decoding-california-dmvs-mobile-drivers-license
March 19, 2024, 1:16 AM
The State of California is currently rolling out a “mobile driver’s license” (mDL), a form of digital identification that raises significant privacy and equity concerns. This post explains the new smartphone application, explores the risks, and calls on the state and its vendor to focus more on protection of the users. 
What is the California DMV Wallet? 
The California DMV Wallet app came out in app stores last year as a pilot, offering the ability to store and display your mDL on your ...
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EFF to California Appellate Court: Reject Trial Judge’s Ruling That Would Penalize Beneficial Features and Tools on Social Media
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-california-appellate-court-reject-trial-judges-ruling-would-penalize
March 18, 2024, 11:22 PM
EFF legal intern Jack Beck contributed to this post.
A California trial court recently departed from wide-ranging precedent and held that Snap, Inc., the maker of Snapchat, the popular social media app, had created a “defective” product by including features like disappearing messages, the ability to connect with people through mutual friends, and even the well-known “Stories” feature. We filed an amicus brief in the appeal, Neville v. Snap, Inc., at the California Court of Appeal, and a...
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Lawmakers: Ban TikTok to Stop Election Misinformation! Same Lawmakers: Restrict How Government Addresses Election Misinformation!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/lawmakers-ban-tiktok-stop-election-misinformation-same-lawmakers-restrict-how
March 16, 2024, 2:12 AM
In a case being heard Monday at the Supreme Court, 45 Washington lawmakers have argued that government communications with social media sites about possible election interference misinformation are illegal.Agencies can't even pass on information about websites state election officials have identified as disinformation, even if they don't request that any action be taken, they assert.Yet just this week the vast majority of those same lawmakers said the government's interest in removing election i...
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The SAFE Act to Reauthorize Section 702 is Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/safe-act-two-steps-forward-one-step-back
March 15, 2024, 8:48 PM
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is one of the most insidious and secretive mass surveillance authorities still in operation today. The Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act would make some much-needed and long fought-for reforms, but it also does not go nearly far enough to rein in a surveillance law that the federal government has abused time and time again.
You can read the full text of the bill here.
While Section 702 was first sold as a tool necessary ...
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Thousands of Young People Told Us Why the Kids Online Safety Act Will Be Harmful to Minors
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
March 15, 2024, 7:37 PM
With KOSA passed, the information i can access as a minor will be limited and censored, under the guise of "protecting me", which is the responsibility of my parents, NOT the government. I have learned so much about the world and about myself through social media, and without the diverse world i have seen, i would be a completely different, and much worse, person. For a country that prides itself in the free speech and freedom of its peoples, this bill goes against everything we stand for! - Ala...
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Analyzing KOSA’s Constitutional Problems In Depth 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth
March 15, 2024, 7:35 PM
Why EFF Does Not Think Recent Changes Ameliorate KOSA’s Censorship 
The latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) did not change our critical view of the legislation. The changes have led some organizations to drop their opposition to the bill, but we still believe it is a dangerous and unconstitutional censorship bill that would empower state officials to target services and online content they do not like. We respect that different groups can come to their own conclusions about ho...
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San Diego City Council Breaks TRUST
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/san-diego-city-council-breaks-trust
March 15, 2024, 6:54 PM
In a stunning reversal against the popular Transparent & Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology (TRUST) ordinance, the San Diego city council voted earlier this year to cut many of the provisions that sought to ensure public transparency for law enforcement surveillance technologies. 
Similar to other Community Control Of Police Surveillance (CCOPS) ordinances, the TRUST ordinance was intended to ensure that each police surveillance technology would be subject to basic democratic over...
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5 Questions to Ask Before Backing the TikTok Ban
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/5-big-unanswered-questions-about-tiktok-bill
March 15, 2024, 6:30 PM
With strong bipartisan support, the U.S. House voted 352 to 65 to pass HR 7521 this week, a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular video app. The TikTok bill’s future in the U.S. Senate isn’t yet clear, but President Joe Biden has said he would sign it into law if it reaches his desk. 
The speed at which lawmakers have moved to advance a bill with such a significant impact on speech is alarming. It has given many of us — including, seemingly,...
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Location Data Tracks Abortion Clinic Visits. Here’s What to Know
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/location-data-tracks-abortion-clinic-visits-heres-what-know
March 15, 2024, 5:59 PM
Our concerns about the selling and misuse of location data for those seeking reproductive and gender healthcare are escalating amid a recent wave of cases and incidents demonstrating that the digital trail we leave is being used by anti-abortion activists.The good news is some states and tech companies are taking steps to better protect location data privacy, including information that endangers people needing or seeking information about reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare. But we know...
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How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-your-car-knows-about-you-and-opt-out-sharing-when-you-can
March 15, 2024, 4:56 PM
Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from the driver. If you're curious about what your car knows about you, you might be able to find out. In some cases, you may even be able to opt out of some of that sharing of d...
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Making the Law Accessible in Europe and the USA
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/making-law-accessible-europe-and-usa
March 14, 2024, 9:46 PM
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Alissa Johnson, who was the lead author of this post.
Earlier this month, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that harmonized standards are a part of EU law, and thus must be accessible to EU citizens and residents free of charge.
While it might seem like common sense that the laws that govern us should be freely accessible, this question has been in dispute in the EU for the past five years, and in the U.S. for over a decade. At the center of this debat...
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Why U.S. House Members Opposed the TikTok Ban Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/why-us-house-members-opposed-tiktok-ban-bill
March 14, 2024, 4:16 PM
What do House Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barbara Lee have in common with House Republicans like Thomas Massie and Andy Biggs? Not a lot. But they do know an unconstitutional bill when they see one.These and others on both sides of the aisle were among the 65 House Members who voted "no" yesterday on the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” H.R. 7521, which would effectively ban TikTok. The bill now goes to the Senate, where we hope coole...
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SXSW Tried to Silence Critics with Bogus Trademark and Copyright Claims. EFF Fought Back.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/sxsw-tried-silence-critics-bogus-trademark-and-copyright-claims-eff-fought-back
March 13, 2024, 11:01 PM
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Jack Beck, who was the lead author of this post.
Amid heavy criticism for its ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel, South by Southwest—the organizer of an annual conference and music festival in Austin—has been on the defensive. One tool in their arsenal: bogus trademark and copyright claims against local advocacy group Austin for Palestine Coalition.
The Austin for Palestine Coalition has been a major source of momentum behind recent anti-SXSW p...
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Protect Yourself from Election Misinformation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/protect-yourself-election-misinformation
March 13, 2024, 6:22 PM
Welcome to your U.S. presidential election year, when all kinds of bad actors will flood the internet with election-related disinformation and misinformation aimed at swaying or suppressing your vote in November. 
So… what’re you going to do about it? 
As EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in 2020, online election disinformation is a problem that has had real consequences in the U.S. and all over the world—it has been correlated to ethnic violence in Myanmar and India and to Kenya’s 2017 e...
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Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Bans
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-should-give-unconstitutional-tiktok-bans
March 13, 2024, 12:01 AM
Congress’ unfounded plan to ban TikTok under the guise of protecting our data is back, this time in the form of a new bill—the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” H.R. 7521 — which has gained a dangerous amount of momentum in Congress. This bipartisan legislation was introduced in the House just a week ago and is expected to be sent to the Senate after a vote later this week.
A year ago, supporters of digital rights across the country successfully...
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Congress Must Stop Pushing Bills That Will Benefit Patent Trolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-must-stop-pushing-bills-will-benefit-patent-trolls
March 12, 2024, 10:27 PM
The U.S. Senate is moving forward with two bills that would enrich patent trolls, patent system insiders, and a few large companies that rely on flimsy patents, at the expense of everyone else. 
One bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would bring back some of the worst software patents we’ve seen, and even re-introduce types of patents on human genes that were banned years ago. Meanwhile, a similar group of senators is trying to push forward the PREVAIL Act (S. 2220), which wo...
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Reject Nevada’s Attack on Encrypted Messaging, EFF Tells Court
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/reject-nevadas-attack-encrypted-messaging-eff-tells-court
March 12, 2024, 10:00 PM
Nevada Makes Backward Argument That Insecure Communication Makes Children SaferLAS VEGAS — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of partners urged a court to protect default encrypted messaging and children’s privacy and security in a brief filed today.
The brief by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Nevada, the EFF, Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar Riana Pfefferkorn, and six other organizations asks the court to reject a request by Nevad...
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EFF Urges New York Court to Protect Online Speakers’ Anonymity
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-urges-new-york-court-protect-online-speakers-anonymity
March 12, 2024, 8:54 PM
The First Amendment requires courts to apply a robust balancing test before unmasking anonymous online speakers, EFF explained in an amicus brief it filed recently in a New York State appeal.
In the case on appeal, GSB Gold Standard v. Google, a German company that sells cryptocurrency investments is seeking to unmask an anonymous blogger who criticized the company. Based upon a German court order, the company sought a subpoena that would identify the blogger. The blogger fought back, without su...
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Access to Internet Infrastructure is Essential, in Wartime and Peacetime
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/access-internet-infrastructure-essential-wartime-and-peacetime
March 12, 2024, 2:49 PM
We’ve been saying it for 20 years, and it remains true now more than ever: the internet is an essential service. It enables people to build and create communities, shed light on injustices, and acquire vital knowledge that might not otherwise be available. And access to it becomes even more imperative in circumstances where being able to communicate and share real-time information directly with the people you trust is instrumental to personal safety and survival. More specifically, during wart...
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Podcast Episode: 'I Squared' Governance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-i-squared-governance
March 12, 2024, 7:10 AM
Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government does “after-action” analyses to make sure its tech regulations are working as intended, recruits experienced technologists as advisors, and enforces real accountability for intelligence and law enforcement programs.


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EFF to Ninth Circuit: There’s No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-ninth-circuit-theres-no-software-exception-traditional-copyright-limits
March 11, 2024, 10:31 PM
Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a federal district court did just that in the latest iteration of Oracle v. Rimini, concluding that software Rimini developed was a “derivative work” because it was intended to interoperate with Oracle's software, even though the update didn’t use any of Oracle’s copyrightable code.That’s a dang...
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EFF’s Submission to Ofcom’s Consultation on Illegal Harms
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/effs-submission-ofcoms-consultation-illegal-harms
March 11, 2024, 5:31 PM
More than four years after it was first introduced, the Online Safety Act (OSA) was passed by the U.K. Parliament in September 2023. The Act seeks to make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online and provides Ofcom, the country’s communications regulator, with the power to enforce this.EFF has opposed the Online Safety Act since it was first introduced. It will lead to a more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The Act empowers the U.K. government to undermine no...
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The Foilies 2024
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024
March 10, 2024, 2:42 PM
Recognizing the worst in government transparency.
The Foilies are co-written by EFF and MuckRock and published in alternative newspapers around the country through a partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. 
We're taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that civilians play in holding officials accountable. We're not just talking about the ballot box, but the everyday power we all have t...
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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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Join us for EFF's 8th Annual Tech Trivia Night!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/join-us-effs-8th-annual-tech-trivia-night
March 8, 2024, 8:56 PM
Join us in San Francisco on May 9th for EFF's 8th annual Tech Trivia Night! Explore the obscure minutiae of digital security, online rights, and internet culture.
Enjoy delicious tacos, churros, and complimentary adult beverages and soft drinks as you and your team battle through rounds of questions—and cutthroat live judging!—to see who will take home the coveted 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies and EFF swag!
Register Now
$45 for CURRENT EFF Members • $55 for General Admission
Thursday,...
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