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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world.
San Francisco, CAeff.orgBorn 1990Joined August 2006
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Let's Encrypt
@letsencrypt
We want to thank our renewing sponsors for your continued support of our work to build a better Internet in 2023. A special thanks to those who’ve supported Let’s Encrypt since day one! Learn more our sponsors in our new blog post:
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Thank you to our 2023 renewing sponsors
At ISRG, we often say, “as a nonprofit, 100% of our funding comes from charitable contributions.” But what does that actually look like? For nearly a decade, the vast majority of our funding has come...
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@EFF
State hacking powers remain controversial and can cause collateral harm to the integrity and security of networks, data, and devices. Strong safeguards are needed to ensure the #UNCybercrimeTreaty does not authorize such powers.
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EFF's Oral Interventions at the United Nations' Ad Hoc Cybercrime
Fourth Session, Vienna, January 9 to 20, 2023EFF and Derechos Digitales oral statement on general provisions. Delivered on January 17th.EFF additional statement on Cluster 5, 1, and 2.EFF statement
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@EFF
EFF thanks
@digitalocean
for their continued support in the form of hosting and cloud computing services.
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@EFF
EFF is at
@UN_Vienna
to recommend that the scope of procedural measures under the #UNCybercrimeTreaty are limited to the investigation of the criminal offenses in accordance with the Convention governing criminal procedure and law enforcement powers.
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EFF's Oral Interventions at the United Nations' Ad Hoc Cybercrime
Fourth Session, Vienna, January 9 to 20, 2023EFF and Derechos Digitales oral statement on general provisions. Delivered on January 17th.EFF additional statement on Cluster 5, 1, and 2.EFF statement
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@EFF
Increasing online platforms’ liability for hosting users’ speech would lead to severe censorship that could undermine the very architecture of the free and open internet, EFF argued to the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief filed Thursday.
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EFF Warns Supreme Court That Users’ Speech is at Stake When
SAN FRANCISCO – Increasing online platforms’ liability for hosting their users’ speech would lead to severe censorship that could undermine the very architecture of the free and open internet, the
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@EFF
For #CopyrightWeek, some non-copyright ways to help artists: - Block vertical monopolies Require transparency in royalty reporting - Improve #TerminationRights so artists can get out of bad deals - Share rights databases for collective licensing
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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech
The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been
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@EFF
In a world ruled Big Entertainment and #BigTech, giving artists more #copyright is like giving bullied kids more lunch money - no matter how much lunch money you hand out, the kids are still going hungry. We have to neutralize the bully:
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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again: Rethinking Tech
The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been
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@EFF
Thanks to everyone who supported EFF with AmazonSmile over the years! Your purchases of electronics, diapers, and everything else really added up. The program continues until February. smile.amazon.com/ch/04-3091431
"We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. We will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities to using our logistics infrastructure and technology to assist broad communities impacted by natural disasters."
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@EFF
“We have a private surveillance apparatus that is wide and is largely unregulated,” EFF’s
@cmcsherr
told
@propublica
. “If any third party has your information, it means your data is no longer in your control and it could be sought by law enforcement.”
propublica.org
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies...
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@EFF
FOSTA violates the First Amendment "because it's overbroad [and] can apply to a substantial amount of protected speech" including harm reduction or health and safety information, decriminalization advocacy, and more, EFF’s
@davidgreene
told
@Reason
.
reason.com
Appeals court panel seems skeptical that FOSTA doesn't violate the First Amendment
The 2018 law criminalizes websites that "promote or facilitate" prostitution. Two of three judges on the panel pushed back against government claims that this doesn't criminalize speech.
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@EFF
In today’s political climate, “all websites, but especially websites with at-risk users, need to consider that helping Google, Facebook & others build up records of user behavior could have a potentially horrific outcome,” EFF’s
@CooperQ
told
@ProPublica
.
propublica.org
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who end their pregnancies...
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@EFF
Offenses under the #UNCybercrime Treaty would impose restrictions that may interfere with the essential working methods of journalists, whistleblowers, and security researchers. The Convention should not become a vehicle to investigate any and all crimes.
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Speech-Related Offenses Should be Excluded from the Proposed UN
Governments should protect people against cybercrime, and they should equally respect and protect people's human rights. However, across the world, governments routinely abuse cybercrime laws to
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@EFF
More than 80 public interest groups remind UN Member States that the broad and undefined concepts contained in the #UNCybercrimeTreaty - such as “terrorism” and “extremism” - should not be used as a basis to restrict freedom of expression.
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Letter to the UN Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Cybercrime Treaty -
H.E. Ms. Faouzia Boumaiza MebarkiChairpersonAd Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal
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@EFF
Facial recognition threatens privacy "because our faces are easy to capture & hard to change," EFF’s
@KEGullo
told
@dcexaminer
. "When the gov't gathers sensitive biometric information, data thieves might steal it, & government employees might misuse it."
washingtonexaminer.com
Biden gets pushback over TSA airport face scanners
While gas stoves are heating up all the headlines, the Biden administration faces another regulation controversy that could affect the people's everyday lives, this time at the airport.
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