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Nov 18, 2022

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It still has some quirks, but Apple’s Advanced Data Protection is the type of feature we hope to see Google, Microsoft, and others add in the future.

How to Enable Advanced Data Protection on iOS, and Why You Should

Apple has long used end-to-end encryption for some of the information on your iPhone, like passwords or health data, but the company neglected to offer a way to better protect other crucial data,

If Texas passes state bill S.B. 896, it will open the door to more lawsuits meant to harass and censor people.

Don't Mess With Texas' Anti-SLAPP Law

Over the past few decades, we’ve seen the rise of civil lawsuits that are meant to harass and silence defendants, rather than resolve legitimate disputes. These lawsuits have become known as

This ban won’t protect Montana residents' private data. Companies will continue to harvest and monetize personal info and make it widely available to purchasers, thieves, and foreign actors. Instead of banning the app, pass data privacy laws.

EFF's Recommendations for Consumer Data Privacy Laws

Strong privacy legislation in the United States is possible, necessary, and long overdue. EFF emphasizes the following concrete recommendations for proposed legislation regarding consumer data

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This unconstitutional ban undermines the free speech and association of Montana TikTok users and intrudes on TikTok’s interest in disseminating its users’ videos. It is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, whether it's done by Congress or Montana.

Government Hasn't Justified a TikTok Ban

Freedom of speech and association include the right to choose one’s communication technologies. Politicians shouldn’t be able to tell you what to say, where to say it, or who to say it to.So we are

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The state of Montana just banned TikTok. Have questions about circumventing network censorship? Here's our guide: ssd.eff.org/module/underst

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BREAKING: Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok after the governor signed the most sweeping measure in the U.S. attempting to curtail the app. apnews.com/article/tiktok

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Fight Surveillance and Protect Free Speech

Defending user rights on the internet is a constant battle. That's why EFF needs your continued support: join us today.

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Protect digital privacy and free expression. EFF's public interest legal work, activism, and software development preserve fundamental rights. EFF is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax ID #04-3091431.

Long Beach, 5 other cities could pilot speed enforcement cameras under proposed bill

Reducing crashes and making city streets safer is a worthwhile goal, but “if the goal is better road safety, I think surveillance is not necessarily a fix for that,” EFF’s

@HTsuka

told the

@LongBeachPost

lbpost.com

If the bill passes, the cities would be allowed to create pilot programs to install speed cameras in school zones and areas with a history of serious crashes or speeding problems.

On “How to Fix the Internet,” Henry Claypool joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn &

@JGKelley

to discuss how artificial intelligence used in everything from hiring tools to social services platforms too often produces results skewed against people with disabilities.

Podcast Episode: People With Disabilities Are The Original Hackers

People with disabilities were the original hackers. The world can feel closed to them, so they often have had to be self-reliant in how they interact with society. And that creativity and ingenuity

Data surveillance is a civil rights problem, and legislation to protect data privacy can help protect civil rights. To be effective, it must include effective private enforcement, and legislation at the federal level must not preempt state legislation.

Digital Privacy Legislation is Civil Rights Legislation

Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and

Journalists, media companies, consumer review sites, and groups from across the political spectrum all agree: we need strong anti-SLAPP laws. Texas lawmakers should leave theirs alone.

Don't Mess With Texas' Anti-SLAPP Law

Over the past few decades, we’ve seen the rise of civil lawsuits that are meant to harass and silence defendants, rather than resolve legitimate disputes. These lawsuits have become known as

Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees

CBP uses an AI-powered tool to screen travelers including US citizens, refugees, & asylum seekers, which can link social media posts to SSNs & location data. Most of the targets “likely have no idea it’s happening, ” EFF’s Bennett Cyphers told

@Motherboard

vice.com

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a tool called Babel X that can link a person's Social Security number to their social media posts and location data, according to an internal CBP document...

Accessibility asks, "Can we knock on the door?" Inclusion says, "Let’s build a house that already has all of us inside it.” Henry Claypool joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn &

@JGKelley

to discuss including people with disabilities in building a better internet.

Podcast Episode: People With Disabilities Are The Original Hackers

People with disabilities were the original hackers. The world can feel closed to them, so they often have had to be self-reliant in how they interact with society. And that creativity and ingenuity

Listen up! Hear about the latest rising issues in online security, privacy, and free expression with EFF's EFFector newsletter:

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.6

Hey, look! The latest issue of our EFFector newsletter is out! Catch up on the latest digital civil liberties news, from our fights against dangerous anti-encryption and anti-speech bills, to some

For many people, driving is an unavoidable part of life, and they don't give up their privacy when they get behind the wheel.

To Search Through Millions of License Plates, Police Should Get a

Earlier this week, EFF filed a brief in one of the first cases to consider whether the use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology implicates the Fourth Amendment. Our amicus brief, filed

In reference to Flock license plate readers, a police commander claimed that, “No one has an expectation of privacy driving down the road with their car." This is dangerous and wrong.

wpri.com

Controversial ‘Flock’ cameras are spreading across RI, spurring calls for more guardrails

Providence police argue the cameras have helped lead to dozens of arrests.

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If you have problems with the EARN IT Act, you should also have problems with the STOP CSAM Act. Both are highly dangerous for encryption.

The STOP CSAM Act: Improved But Still Problematic

Last month, we expressed concerns about how the STOP CSAM Act threatens encrypted communications and free speech online. New amendments to the bill have some improvements, but our concerns remain.

NEW on “How to Fix the Internet”— People with disabilities were the OG hackers, innovating how to fully take part in society. Their creativity and ingenuity is a resource that can benefit us all, Henry Claypool tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn &

@JGKelley

Podcast Episode: People With Disabilities Are The Original Hackers

People with disabilities were the original hackers. The world can feel closed to them, so they often have had to be self-reliant in how they interact with society. And that creativity and ingenuity

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‘Extremely unsettling’: Consumer claims portable tracker found in car he just bought

An Orlando man bought a used car, then got an alert that there’s an AirTag in it - but he can’t find it. “Leaving the original owner with the ability to continue to track his car is extremely unsettling,” EFF’s

@evacide

told

@WFTV

wftv.com

Small devices, like the Apple AirTag, that can track your every move are becoming increasingly common, inciting fears about how they’re being used.

Are you interested in attending Black Hat USA? You're in luck! EFF supporters can get $200 off a Briefings pass for #BHUSA by using our code EFF2023. Learn more here:

EFF is once again excited to be in Las Vegas, NV for Black Hat USA! Be sure to stop by our booth on Black Hat Boulevard (more location info to come) to learn about the work we are doing to defend

EFF at Black Hat USA

El informe completo se puede leer aquí:

Who Defends Your Data in Latin America & Spain? A Comparative View of

ContentsIntroduction1. An Overview of QDTD Reports 1.1 Methodology and Main Common Criteria 1.2 Highlights of Achievments and Gaps 1.3 The COVID-19 Pandemic Reflected in QDTD Reports 1.4 Regional

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El informe revela que, a pesar de progresos logrados a favor de la privacidad de los usuarios, persisten pautas preocupantes, como los ordenes gubernamentales para obtener datos de los usuarios mediante el acceso directo a las redes de telecomunicaciones. 2/

Hemos lanzado un informe analizando las políticas y prácticas de privacidad de las empresas de telecomunicaciones latinoamericanas gracias a 8 años de investigaciones de nuestros aliados regionales 1/

Tras ocho años impulsando compromisos de los ISP en América Latina:

Las empresas de telecomunicaciones latinoamericanas y españolas han realizado importantes avances en sus políticas y prácticas de privacidad, pero las lagunas persistentes y las tendencias

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Defend Privacy and Free Speech

Defending digital rights is easy! Just follow these simple steps: click the link below --> select your membership level --> pick some EFF gear --> enter your payment, then you're done!

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Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and support the mission to defend civil liberties and human rights online. You can help EFF’s attorneys, activists, and technologists protect privacy,...

In its current form, the UK Online Safety Bill is a threat to free speech and privacy. The House of Lords can take action—this week— to change it for the better.

The UK Online Safety Bill Must Not Violate Our Rights to Free Speech

As the UK’s Online Safety Bill moves through negotiations in the House of Lords, EFF, Open Rights Group, Wikimedia UK, and Index on Censorship have submitted a briefing urging the Lords to uphold the

Organización tiene en la mira la tecnología usada por CBP en la frontera

Mire este reportaje de una presentación de EFF sobre vigilancia electrónica en la frontera entre EUA y Mexico, y que algunos residentes dicen que es “no se fija, y que privacidad tiene” [Video]

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Presuntamente no toda la tecnología usada necesariamente es para vigilar a los migrantes.

Though parental consent laws for accessing content online are often described as protecting or upholding “parental rights,” they do the exact opposite: remove a parents’ ability to allow their child to freely access information.

The Law Should Not Require Parental Consent for All Minors to Access

Numerous state laws passed this year, and bills proposed in Congress, would set onerous new restrictions on what young people can do online, depriving teenagers of their First Amendment rights to

Activists, academics, and even elected officials agree that Maine’s scandal-attracting fusion center violates privacy and civil liberties. Maine now has a chance to defund it.

Maine Gets Another (Necessary) Opportunity to Defund Its Local

Maine State Senator Pinny Beebe-Center has introduced LD 1290 , or An Act to End the Maine Information and Analysis Center Program, a bill that would defund the Maine Information and Analysis Center

No, Section 702 should not be used to vet incoming immigrants–but witnesses at a Congressional hearing on FISA did propose some good first steps for reigning in the unconstitutional surveillance program.

At Congressional Hearing, PCLOB Members Suggest Bare Minimum of 702

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held a hearing on “Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them,”

Congrats to

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winner for depicting "how revolutions are built on their own recurring failure." That's what

@annaleen

said about the show on EFF's podcast episode, "Losing Until We Win: Realistic Revolution in Science Fiction."

Podcast Episode: Losing Until We Win: Realistic Revolution in Science

When a science-fiction villain is defeated, we often see the heroes take their victory lap and then everyone lives happily ever after. But that’s not how real struggles work: In real life, victories

The Electronic Frontier Alliance connects grassroots groups engaging in local advocacy, community workshops, and creative expression. Check out or allies directory to see who is organizing in your area. eff.org/electronic-fro

This Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling provides a kind of master class in applying copyright’s fair use doctrine to functional works like computer programs.

Federal Appeals Court Gets It: Fair Use Protects Security Research

In a refreshingly direct opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that creating and selling virtualization software for security research is a fair use. Along the way, it provides a

Tell Congress: Don't Outlaw Encrypted Applications

The STOP CSAM Act would undermine digital security for all internet users. Help us tell Congress to oppose it.

act.eff.org

It shouldn't be against the law to provide an encrypted app. But if the STOP CSAM Act passes, it would make it a crime to offer encryption, because it could "facilitate" the sharing of illegal child...

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Using encrypted apps is not a crime. Let’s not make it one.

The STOP CSAM Act: Improved But Still Problematic

Last month, we expressed concerns about how the STOP CSAM Act threatens encrypted communications and free speech online. New amendments to the bill have some improvements, but our concerns remain.

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Californians! If you'd like to express your support for protecting the privacy of vulnerable people seeking healthcare—and particularly if you live in

@ChrisHoldenNews

's district—please speak up here: act.eff.org/action/stop-al

Next week, join EFF and EFA members at

@EthicsInTech

's NSA comedy night, reflecting on the past 10 years of resisting mass surveillance.