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FEATURED UPDATE

Team Internet Is Far From Done: What’s Next For Net Neutrality and How You Can Help

Defying the facts, the law, and the will of millions of Americans , the Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal net neutrality protections . It’s difficult to understate how radical the FCC’s decision was. The Internet has operated under formal and informal net neutrality principles for years. For the first time, the FCC has not only abdicated its role in enforcing those principles, it has rejected them altogether. Here’s the good news: the fight is far from over, and...
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Level Up Digital Freedom

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just launched the Year End Challenge , the final opportunity to raise funds to protect online civil liberties and the open Internet before the end of 2017. If you donate today, you’ll help EFF receive additional challenge grants totaling $39,350! EFF is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit and donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Take the challenge Give Before 2018 to unlock Special grants This has been an extraordinary year filled with triumphs, but also...
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How to Talk to Your Family About Digital Security

You and your family are sipping hot cocoa, gathered around the [holiday object of your choice], and your family member suddenly asks: “Can you help me with my [insert device here]?” They need a question answered about their computer, phone, tablet, video game console, or internet-connected device. Maybe they have related questions about their online accounts. Or maybe there is a teenager or college student in your family that posts intensely personal information online, and has just realized that they...
Security Education
Deeplinks Blog | November 15, 2017

Announcing the Security Education Companion

The need for robust personal digital security is growing every day. From grassroots groups to civil society organizations to individual EFF members, people from across our community are voicing a need for accessible security education materials to share with their friends, neighbors, and colleagues. We are thrilled to help. Today...

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Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | December 22, 2017

Surveillance Battles: 2017 in Review

If you’ve been following EFF’s work, you’ll know that we’ve been fighting against the creeping surveillance state for over 20 years. Often, this means pushing back against the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance programs, but as new technology becomes available, new threats emerge. Here are some of the biggest legislative...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | December 22, 2017

What It Means to Fight for Technology Users in 2017

EFF fights for technology users. We believe that empowering and protecting users should be baked into laws, policies, and court decisions, as well as into the technologies themselves. Since our founding in 1990, we have paired this goal with the common-sense recognition that in order to properly consider these questions...
Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | December 22, 2017

Level Up Digital Freedom

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just launched the Year End Challenge, the final opportunity to raise funds to protect online civil liberties and the open Internet before the end of 2017. If you donate today, you’ll help EFF receive additional challenge grants totaling $39,350! EFF is a U.S. 501(c)(3...
Deeplinks Blog by Alan Toner | December 21, 2017

Safari in Arms Race Against Trackers - Criteo Feels the Heat

Criteo is an ad company. You may not have heard of them, but they do retargeting, the type of ads that pursue users across the web, beseeching them to purchase a product they once viewed or have already bought. To identify users across websites, Criteo relies on cross-site tracking using...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | December 21, 2017

Diego Gómez Is Safe, but Threats to Curiosity Still Abound

Threat of Imprisonment for Colombian Scientist Demonstrates the Far-Reaching Implications of Copyright Policy In 2011, Colombian graduate student Diego Gómez did something that hundreds of people do every day: he shared another student’s Master’s thesis with colleagues over the Internet. He didn’t know that that simple, common act could ...
Deeplinks Blog by David Ruiz | December 20, 2017

Efforts to Expand NSA Spying Trip Up

Since last night, the debate over how to reauthorize certain NSA surveillance authorities has seen a whirlwind of activity, culminating in the major news that the House Rules Committee postponed a vote today to potentially expand NSA spying powers. As we wrote yesterday: "According to reports published Tuesday...
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