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Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | April 2, 2018

EFF to Supreme Court: Don’t Turn US Patents Into Worldwide Patents

The general rule in patent law is that each country has its own patent system. If you want damages for sales in the United States, you need a U.S. patent. If you want damages for sales in New Zealand, you need to get a New Zealand patent, and so on...

Event | April 5, 2018

Protest at Facebook HQ: Protect Our Data!

Raging Grannies, a grassroots organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF), will host this event: Protest at Facebook HQ: Protect Our Data! Join Raging Grannies in their call for greater consumer protection and privacy online.

Event | April 11, 2018

Cryptosocial Hosted by EFA Allies

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Cryptosocial Come one come all! Get together, try new cryptotools such as Qubes OS, gab about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, federal fusion centers, and even verify someone’s PGP key! This is...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | April 2, 2018

Congress Will Finally Make Its Research Reports Public

The recent omnibus bill passed by Congress contains a nugget of good news for those interested in access to publicly funded research. Open access activists have long been asking for reports by the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, to be made publicly and easily available. CRS creates a vast array...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | April 2, 2018

California Supreme Court Upholds the State's Problematic Arrestee DNA Collection Law

In a disappointing and deeply divided opinion released today, the California Supreme Court upheld a state law law mandating DNA collection from arrestees. A lower court had held this law violated the privacy and search and seizure protections guaranteed under the California constitution. Today’s decision lets this flawed law...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | April 2, 2018

Catalog of Missing Devices: Ad Free Youtube Kids

Since the invention of the remote control, rightsholders and audience have fought a war over ads. The market for tools to skip, mask or mute ads holds publishers and marketers to account: they know that if their ads get too obnoxious, their audiences will be motivated to make them disappear...

Event | April 9, 2018

Digital Freedom Initiative::CryptoParty

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Digital Freedom Initiative::CryptoParty Digital Freedom Initiative will host the first of its new monthly Cryptoparty series, scheduled to take place on the second Monday of each month, 7 PM, at Guide to Kulchur. This...

Deeplinks Blog by Nate Cardozo, Andrew Crocker | April 2, 2018

The FBI Could Have Gotten Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone, But Leadership Didn’t Say That

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) last week released a new report that supports what EFF has long suspected: that the FBI’s legal fight with Apple in 2016 to create backdoor access to a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone was more focused on creating legal precedent...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Veridiana Alimonti | April 2, 2018

“Fake News” Offers Latin American Consolidated Powers An Opportunity to Censor Opponents

Today’s headlines are dominated by the role of misinformation campaigns or “fake news” in undermining democracy in the West. From ongoing accusations of Russian meddling in Trump’s election to Russian efforts to sway the Brexit and French Presidential election votes, these countries are confronting “fake news”...

Event | April 8, 2018

Cryptoparty Hosted by Cypurr

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Cypurr Cryptoparty The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has raised a lot of questions for Facebook users: How do Facebook and third parties trade my data? In what ways have I given...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | March 30, 2018

Georgia Passes Anti-Infosec Legislation

Despite the full-throated objections of the cybersecurity community, the Georgia legislature has passed a bill that would open independent researchers who identify vulnerabilities in computer systems to prosecution and up to a year in jail. EFF calls upon Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to veto S.B. 315 as soon as...

Deeplinks Blog by Nate Cardozo | March 30, 2018

Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers

One of EFF’s strengths is that we bring together technologists, lawyers, activists, and policy wonks. And we’ve been around long enough to know that while good technology is necessary for success, it is rarely sufficient. Good policy and people who will adhere to it are also crucial. People write and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams, Peter Eckersley | March 29, 2018

Some Easy Things We Could Do to Make All Autonomous Cars Safer

Incident response standards, data sharing, and not blaming humans unfairly for the failures of machinesMore than a week after an Uber vehicle driving in autonomous mode killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona — the first pedestrian death by a self-driving car — we still don’t know what exactly went wrong...

Event | April 4, 2018

U-M Event Series: Dissonance

A conversation with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Professor Alex Halderman, moderated by Clinical Teaching Fellow Gautam Hans, on Elections in the Digital Age - Security, Policy, and the Law.

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | March 29, 2018

Building A Secure Messenger

Given different people’s and community’s security needs, it’s hard to arrive at a consensus of what a “secure” messenger must provide. In this post, we discuss various options for developers to consider when working towards the goal of improving a messenger’s security. A messenger that’s perfectly secure for every single...

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EFF to Supreme Court: Don’t Turn US Patents Into Worldwide Patents

Protest at Facebook HQ: Protect Our Data!

Cryptosocial Hosted by EFA Allies

Congress Will Finally Make Its Research Reports Public

California Supreme Court Upholds the State's Problematic Arrestee DNA Collection Law

Catalog of Missing Devices: Ad Free Youtube Kids

Digital Freedom Initiative::CryptoParty

The FBI Could Have Gotten Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone, But Leadership Didn’t Say That

“Fake News” Offers Latin American Consolidated Powers An Opportunity to Censor Opponents

Cryptoparty Hosted by Cypurr

Georgia Passes Anti-Infosec Legislation

Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers

Some Easy Things We Could Do to Make All Autonomous Cars Safer

U-M Event Series: Dissonance

Building A Secure Messenger

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