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Nov 18, 2022

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DOJ's new antitrust suit against Google could force it to diversify its revenue sources away from advertising. That could mean more products not designed around surveillance of users.

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If the Supreme Court narrows Section 230, we'll see a more censored internet.

EFF Tells Supreme Court: User Speech Must Be Protected

The Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online. EFF has filed a brief explaining what’s at stake, and urging the court to preserve the key law

EFF's Mitch Stoltz discusses DOJ antitrust suit against Google on Al...

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The Justice Department’s latest lawsuit against Google is the most significant so far because it goes after the advertising mechanism that provides the tech giant’s revenue, EFF’s

@mitchstoltz

told

@AJEnglish

youtube.com

EFF Competition Director Mitch Stoltz speaks with Al Jazeera English about the Justice Department's new antitrust lawsuit against Google.

Defend Privacy and Free Speech

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🔇 SILENCE IS KING: THE PERSECUTION OF ACTIVISTS IN THE GCC HR defender Ahmed Mansoor was arrested in 2017 and was unfairly convicted of the offence of “insulting the status and prestige of the #UAE and its symbols” in connection with his peaceful HR activism.

“If police can use these kinds of warrants whenever they want, they will be used to target people for 1st Amendment-protected speech, to target people for their reproductive choices, to target people who go to gun shows,” EFF’s

@lynch_jen

told

@NBCNews

nbcnews.com

Men imprisoned for murder say police illegally used Google to find their location data

Geofence warrants allow police to comb through Google location data in search of suspects. Opponents say that violates the Constitution.

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Let's talk about a future where people have the rights to repair, tinker, and create, and how we get there.

Podcast Episode: Don't Be Afraid to Poke the Tigers

What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, it symbolizes the boundless

Jan 24

El Martes 31 de enero se reinstala la audiencia de juicio de

@olabini

. Estamos pendientes y esperando que la corte de un ejemplo de transparencia y ajustado a los criterios técnicos y legales.

We’re hiring for a Security & Privacy Activist. Come work with us!

Security and Privacy Activist

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an established nonprofit organization defending online privacy and free expression, is looking for a full-time writer and advocate to join our Activism

Jan 24

EFF's podcast, How to Fix the Internet, is back for a new season! Our first episode is with hardware hacker and researcher Andrew 'bunnie' Huang. Learn why questioning authority and “poking the tigers” of patent law is necessary to move things forward:

Podcast Episode: Don't Be Afraid to Poke the Tigers

What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, it symbolizes the boundless

EFF is thrilled to attend #CactusCon for the first time in Mesa, AZ! We will have a booth, so be sure to stop by and chat with our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all.

EFF is thrilled to attend CactusCon for the first time in Mesa, AZ! We will have a booth, so be sure to stop by and chat with our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital

EFF at CactusCon

ICE is not the first, and will probably not be the last, federal agency to abuse our notion of what is “relevant” for an investigation in order to collect information on millions of people. This must end.

Here’s How ICE Illegally Obtained Bulk Financial Records from Western

Senator Ron Wyden has released a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General voicing his concern over a previously-unknown bulk data collection program that was

EFF Retweeted

S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

@STOPSpyingNY

February 7th at Stitch Blues Bar, S.T.O.P. is hosting a Valentine's Day of Action. Come sip some cocktails and sign some anti-Valentine "breakup letters" telling NYS representatives to ban systems of mass surveillance! RSVP: stopspying.kindful.com/e/vday-of-acti

A quarter of a century after Napster’s founding, we’re still haunted by the same false binaries that have deadlocked us since the era of 56k modems.

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

As digital technologies dramatically (and sometime controversially) expand the reach of copyright, fair use helps ensure that the rights of the public expand as well.

Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug

Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of the Communications Decency Act) as the legal

1. Too often, we see copyright enforcement tools serving as cover for silencing critics, thanks to features of copyright law that make it a legal anomaly. At EFF, we’re fighting back. #CopyrightWeek

For Would-Be Censors and the Thin-Skinned, Copyright Law Offers

Yesterday, we wrote about the importance of fair use as a safeguard for free expression. But all too often, fair use and other legal limits on copyright are not enough to stop copyright enforcement

Last week was #CopyrightWeek, get caught up on all the great work by those fighting to make copyright work for everyone.

Day 1: The Public DomainThe public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust,

We’re hiring for a Security & Privacy Activist. Come work with us!

Security and Privacy Activist

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an established nonprofit organization defending online privacy and free expression, is looking for a full-time writer and advocate to join our Activism

We’re hiring for a Senior System Administrator. Join the team!

Senior System Administrator

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and

EFF’s

told

he’s skeptical of artificial images’ effect on facial recognition performance. “You’re training [the] model on things that are not real people, and it will inevitably skew the model in directions we don’t know.”

gcn.com

Facial recognition: Can fake data produce real results?

Diversifying training datasets with computer-generated faces may help break down bias in the technology, but one expert says using synthetic images is a step too far.

EFF Retweeted

christine is listening to

midnights

@x71n3

Over $600 was donated to

tonight, all proceeds from the #HackFortress competition! Congrats to the winners, and thank you all for playing!💻🦌

EFF has been at the

for the past two weeks fighting to ensure that the new #UNCybercrimeTreaty protects user rights, excludes speech-related offenses, embodies human rights standards, and is narrow in scope.

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

Police body camera footage doesn’t work if it’s only available at the convenience of law enforcement agencies.

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Oakland Privacy

@OaklandPrivacy

No body camera footage of police killing a forest defender in Atlanta. #StopCopCity twitter.com/wabenews/statu…

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ICE illegally collected millions of bulk financial records from money transfer services like Western Union. This dragnet surveillance does nothing but erode the civil liberties of people who use these services, including immigrant, and unbanked communities.

Here’s How ICE Illegally Obtained Bulk Financial Records from Western

Senator Ron Wyden has released a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General voicing his concern over a previously-unknown bulk data collection program that was

We’re hiring for a Senior System Administrator. Join the team!

Senior System Administrator

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and

For #CopyrightWeek: as the public domain grows, it remains under threat from ever-lengthening copyright terms.

US Copyright Term Extensions Have Stopped, But the Public Domain

Every January 1st, we celebrate the creative works that become free to use and adapt as their copyright expires. This year, that includes the iconic sci-fi film “Metropolis,” the first Best Picture

The general provisions under the #UNCybercrimeTreaty authorizing real time data collection should be modified to prevent intrusions into networks and end devices. State Parties should not be able to rely on ambiguities to justify hacking activities.

United Nations Cybercrime Treaty

The United Nations is currently negotiating a major Cybercrime Convention that has the potential to substantively reshape international criminal law and bolster cross-border police surveillance

Payment processors are entitled to enforce their terms of service. But not providing users ample notice to find alternatives and removing options to appeal does "nothing to make the internet a safer place,"

@True_Naked_Yoga

told EFF.

No Nudity Allowed: Censoring Naked Yoga

Most nude content is legal, and engaging with such material online provides individuals with a safe and open framework to explore their identities, build communities, and discover new interests.

We’re hiring for a Security & Privacy Activist. Come work with us!

Security and Privacy Activist

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an established nonprofit organization defending online privacy and free expression, is looking for a full-time writer and advocate to join our Activism

Attending #ShmooCon 2023? Be sure to stop by the "Bring It On!" track today at 1100 to see EFF's Kurt Opsahl discuss The UN Cybercrime Treaty:

Once again, EFF is excited to be back in Washington, DC for ShmooCon 2023! Stop by the EFF booth to chat with some of our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for

EFF at ShmooCon

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...

Online pharmacies urged to stop sharing people's health data

"My concern is that ... someday data stored by Google, Facebook, and big tech in general could be used to carry out dragnet searches and prosecutions of women who have sought out abortions or other reproductive care,” EFF’s

@CooperQ

told

@TheRegister

theregister.com

Google says don't worry, EFF warns of 'potentially horrific outcome'

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Why a government TikTok ban won't be coming to your phone anytime soon

“It's going to be really difficult for the government to enact a total ban constitutionally,” EFF’s

@DavidGreene

told

@YahooFinance

. “And that's even assuming that they can show that…there's some proof that the ban will actually help in some way.”

finance.yahoo.com

The First Amendment stands in the way of a government ban on TikTok.

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.

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

Too often, we see copyright enforcement tools serving as cover for silencing critics, thanks to features of copyright law that make it a legal anomaly. At EFF, we’re fighting back. #CopyrightWeek

For Would-Be Censors and the Thin-Skinned, Copyright Law Offers

Yesterday, we wrote about the importance of fair use as a safeguard for free expression. But all too often, fair use and other legal limits on copyright are not enough to stop copyright enforcement

We’re hiring for a Senior System Administrator. Join the team!

Senior System Administrator

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and

EFF,

, and

have joined 85 NGOs to raise concerns about the over expansive scope of the #CybercrimeTreaty. 'Core' cyber crimes have been used to target journalists, political dissidents, and others.

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