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Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Jeschke | October 3, 2018

New York City Home-Sharing Ordinance Could Create Privacy Nightmare

Many cities across the country are struggling with issues surrounding short-term vacation rentals and how they affect the availability and price of housing for local residents. However, New York City’s latest ordinance aimed at regulating home-sharing platforms is an extraordinary governmental overreach with invasive privacy ramifications, and EFF is...

Event | October 12, 2018

Hack Back Web Series Premiere

Written and directed by Messiah Rhodes, associate producer at VICE, Hack Back chronicles the lives of three people, living with pangs of alienation, loneliness, and the struggle found in a life filled with tenuous low wage employment. The series is designed to demystify digital security in a subliminal and fun...

Press Release | October 3, 2018

Briefing Thursday: EFF’s Eva Galperin and Lookout Discuss, Demo Cybersecurity Attacks On Democracy

Washington, D.C.—On Thursday, Oct. 4, at 2 pm, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will speak at a special session for congressional staffers and representatives about how malware and spyware targeted at mobile devices is being used against dissidents, activists, journalists, and others to disrupt democracy...

Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | October 3, 2018

Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy From NYPD Surveillance Technology

For too long, the New York Police Department has secretly deployed cutting-edge spy tech, without notice to the public. Many of these snooping devices invade our privacy, deter our free speech, and disparately burden minority and immigrant communities. Fortunately, a proposed ordinance (“the POST Act”) would lift the cloak of...

Event | October 15, 2018

Discussion Hosted by TA3M Portland

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Election security: How hackable are Oregon's vote scanners? As Oregonians know, the state has a mail-in voting system, where all ballots are cast either by mail or by dropping them into...

Event | October 9, 2018

Discussion Hosted by EFF-Austin

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Habeas Data Book Signing with Cyrus Farivar Cyrus Farivar, Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, will read excerpts from and sign copies of his new book, Habeas Data, about 50 years...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | October 2, 2018

McSweeney’s and EFF Team Up for “The End of Trust”

For 20 years, McSweeney’s has been the first name (or last name, actually) in emerging short fiction. But this November, McSweeney’s will debut the first all-non-fiction issue of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern: “The End of Trust” (Issue 54) is a collection of essays and interviews focusing on issues related...

Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | October 2, 2018

Fake News and Elections in Brazil: Several Initiatives, No Easy Answer

Brazil’s federal elections are set for October 7, 2018, but the fear that “fake news” online might unfairly interfere with the electoral process has been looming over the country for far longer than this year’s campaign. In June, the President of the Superior Electoral Court declared such interference could...

Deeplinks Blog by Sydney Young, Lindsay Oliver, Sydney Li | October 1, 2018

EFF's DEF CON 26 T-Shirt Puzzle

In August, EFF unveiled our ninth limited edition DEF CON exclusive member t-shirt. Like previous years, the design of this year’s shirt was inspired by the conference’s theme, 1983. That number isn’t just the year before 1984. It was also the year a brilliant artist named Keith Haring had...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | October 1, 2018

California’s Net Neutrality Law: What’s Happened, What’s Next

Over the weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown signed S.B. 822, which guarantees strong net neutrality protections for citizens of California. Within hours, however, the federal government announced its intention to sue California for stepping in where the feds have abdicated responsibility. What happens next is going to be full of procedural...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Starchy Grant | October 1, 2018

The Devil Is in The Details Of Project Verify’s Goal To Eliminate Passwords

A coalition of the four largest U.S. wireless providers calling itself the Mobile Authentication Taskforce recently announced an initiative named Project Verify. This project would let users log in to apps and websites with their phone instead of a password, or serve as an alternative to ...

Deeplinks Blog by Stephanie Lacambra, Kit Walsh | October 1, 2018

EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Let Criminal Defense Teams Vet Forensic Software

You shouldn’t be convicted by secret evidence in a functional democracy. So when the government uses forensic software to investigate and build its case in a criminal prosecution, it should not hide that technological evidence from the defense. In an amicus brief filed today EFF urged the Ninth Circuit...

Event | October 26, 2018

A wie ANONYM

Seth Schoen presents a keynote address on "The Cypherpunk's Anonymity" at the conference A wie ANONYM. KampnagelJarrestraße 20, Hamburg, Germany

Event | October 18, 2018

TurkuSec October 2018 meeting

Seth Schoen speaks on "The History of the Battle for Privacy". TurkuSec October meetupSparkUp TurkuTykistökatu 4b, Turku, Finland

Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | October 1, 2018

Victory! New California Law Requires Police Policy Transparency

The people of California will now have more insight into how their local law enforcement agencies operate. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed S.B. 978, which requires local police departments to publish their “training, policies, practices, and operating procedures” on their websites starting in January 2020. That opens up access...

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New York City Home-Sharing Ordinance Could Create Privacy Nightmare

Hack Back Web Series Premiere

Briefing Thursday: EFF’s Eva Galperin and Lookout Discuss, Demo Cybersecurity Attacks On Democracy

Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy From NYPD Surveillance Technology

Discussion Hosted by TA3M Portland

Discussion Hosted by EFF-Austin

McSweeney’s and EFF Team Up for “The End of Trust”

Fake News and Elections in Brazil: Several Initiatives, No Easy Answer

EFF's DEF CON 26 T-Shirt Puzzle

California’s Net Neutrality Law: What’s Happened, What’s Next

The Devil Is in The Details Of Project Verify’s Goal To Eliminate Passwords

EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Let Criminal Defense Teams Vet Forensic Software

A wie ANONYM

TurkuSec October 2018 meeting

Victory! New California Law Requires Police Policy Transparency

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