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Jeremy Gillula
Jeremy Gillula
At a young age Jeremy was sidetracked from his ultimate goal of protecting digital civil liberties by the allure of building and programming robots, which was the focus of his work in college and grad school. Having worked on drones and autonomous cars he is aware of their potential benefits for society, but is also that much more prepared to guard against the dangers they present to privacy and civil liberties.
Of course, having worked at EFF for nearly a year Jeremy has covered a wide variety of tech topics, including mobile devices, big data, and net neutrality, just to name a few.
A strong believer in never taking the straightforward path to anything, Jeremy went to Caltech for undergrad, then got his PhD in computer science from Stanford University by working on robotics projects with a professor in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley.
Deeplinks Posts by Jeremy
Limitations of ISP Data Pollution Tools
Republicans in Congress recently voted to repeal the FCC’s broadband privacy rules. As a result, your Internet provider may be able to sell sensitive information like your browsing history or app usage to advertisers, insurance companies, and more, all without your consent. In response, Internet users have been asking what...Hollow Privacy Promises from Major Internet Service Providers
It’s no surprise that Americans were unhappy to lose online privacy protections earlier this month. Across party lines, voters overwhelmingly oppose the measure to repeal the FCC’s privacy rules for Internet providers that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law. But it should come as...An Update on Verizon's AppFlash: Pre-Installed Spyware Is Still Spyware
This post is an UPDATE to a piece we originally published last week . Verizon recently rolled out a new pilot project to pre-install on customers’ devices an app launcher/search tool that, we believe, is really just spyware. This software, called AppFlash, is preloaded on...UPDATE: Verizon Software on Android Phones
UPDATE: We have received additional information from Verizon and based on that information we are withdrawing this post while we investigate further. Here is the statement from Kelly Crummey, Director of Corporate Communications of Verizon: "As we said earlier this week, we are testing AppFlash to make app discovery...Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules
Call your Congressmember now to save online privacy! Back in October of 2016, the Federal Communications Commission passed some pretty awesome rules that would bar your Internet provider from invading your privacy. The rules would keep Internet providers like...Five Creepy Things Your ISP Could Do if Congress Repeals the FCC’s Privacy Protections
Why are we so worried about Congress repealing the FCC’s privacy rules for ISPs ? Because we’ve seen ISPs do some disturbing things in the past to invade their users’ privacy. Here are five examples of creepy practices that could make a resurgence if we don’t stop Congress now...Three Myths the Telecom Industry is Using to Convince Congress to Repeal the FCC’s Privacy Rules, Busted
Back in October of 2016, the FCC passed some pretty awesome rules that would bar your internet service provider (ISP) from invading your privacy. The rules would keep ISPs like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from doing things like selling your personal information to marketers, inserting undetectable tracking headers into...Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections As You Read This
Call congress now! Back in 2014 over 3 million Internet users told the U.S. government loudly and clearly: we value our online security, we value our online privacy, and we value net neutrality . Our voices helped convince the FCC to...NY State AG’s Lawsuit Against ISP Shows Why We Need Net Neutrality Protections
And Proves What Time Warner Cable Can Do Worse Back in 2013, a couple of Internet pranksters who were fed up with Time Warner Cable’s (TWC) dismal customer service released a parody video and website that asked, “ What Can We [TWC] do Worse?” In response,...New FCC Chairman Begins Attacks on Internet Privacy