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Event | April 16, 2020

EFF's 4th Annual Tech Trivia Night

UPDATE: After extensive discussion, EFF has decided to postpone this year’s Tech Trivia Night to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. We hope to reschedule for later this year. News regarding upcoming EFF events can be found on our events page, and updates will be announced...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | August 7, 2020

EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia High School Expressing Concern Over Restriction to Students’ Free Speech

The First Amendment includes the right to use technology to create and preserve images, and otherwise collect information, of newsworthy events. This issue has arisen in numerous contexts, including the right to record the police performing police-work, and we have filed several amicus briefs that have helped firmly establish that...

Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | August 7, 2020

Victory! EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership

The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is especially great in...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez, Seth Schoen | August 7, 2020

FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security

Despite widespread complaints about its effects on human rights, the Brazilian Senate has fast-tracked the approval of “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. The bill lacked the necessarily broad and intense social participation that characterized the development of the 2014 Brazilian Civil Rights...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | August 6, 2020

No to Blockchain Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results for Entry to Public Spaces

An ill-conceived California bill endorses a blockchain-based system that would turn COVID-19 test results into permanent records that could be used to grant access to public places. EFF and ACLU oppose California A.B. 2004. The newest version of this bill would create a pilot program for using “verifiable...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | August 5, 2020

Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State's Broadband Future

Two bills before the California legislature in its final month of session, S.B. 1130 and A.B. 570, chart very different courses for the state’s broadband infrastructure program. In considering them, the state faces a fundamental question about how to invest its money: in modern, high-capacity fiber networks, or slow wireless...

Deeplinks Blog by Haley Pedersen | August 5, 2020

Digital Rights On the Ground: The View from EFF’s Intake Desk

If you’re familiar with EFF, you know that we do our best to defend and promote digital civil liberties through a powerful blend of impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, technological development, and more. But you may not know that EFF also provides a legal intake and referral service. As...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | August 4, 2020

Sen. Merkley Leads on Biometric Privacy

Businesses across the world are harvesting and monetizing our biometrics without our knowledge or consent. For example, Clearview AI extracted faceprints from three billion people, and now it sells face-matching services to police departments. Likewise, retail stores use face surveillance to identify customers they deem more likely...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, David Greene, Kurt Opsahl | August 4, 2020

TikTok Ban: A Seed of Genuine Security Concern Wrapped in a Thick Layer of Censorship

It is ironic that, while purporting to protect America from China’s authoritarian government, President Trump is threatening to ban the TikTok app. Censorship of both speech and social media applications, after all, is one of the hallmarks of the Chinese Internet strategy. While there is significant cause for...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | August 4, 2020

Supporting Digital Freedom at the (Virtual) Summer Security Conferences

During a typical year, EFF staff members would be headed to Las Vegas to present our latest work to the world and ensure legal support for computer security researchers at the long-running hacker events BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON. These summer security conferences are a...

Event | August 6, 2020

You're on Camera: Surveillance and Protests. San Francisco Public Press ⁦‪@SFPublicPress‬⁩

You're on Camera: Surveillance and Protests. Panel discussion Aug 6 at 5:30p with ⁦‪@maassive‬⁩ ⁦‪@EFF‬⁩ ⁦‪@ShelbyAPerkins‬⁩ & Craig Nelson https://twitter.com/SFPublicPress/status/1290429852080697344 REGISTER

Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Zhao, Kit Walsh | August 3, 2020

EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed

Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights...

Event | August 7, 2020

DEF CON Safe Mode: EFF Tech Trivia

EFF is proud to present EFF Tech Trivia for DEF CON Safe Mode! Live on Twitch, Friday, August 7, 17:00 to 19:00 Pacific, featuring Cooper the Cybertiger as Quizmaster and Kurt Opsahl as MC. EFF's team of technology experts have crafted challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial...

Event | August 4, 2020

Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk

For the Word on the Street festival's fourth City Imagines panel, EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow speaks with James Wilt, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk. For North American cities built around cars, public transportation...

Event | August 6, 2020

STOP x RadTech: Practical Cybersecurity for Activists and Organizers

STOP x RadTech: Practical Cybersecurity for Activists and Organizers From the Organizers: Last month we heard about the centuries-old tradition of U.S. state surveillance of activists, protestors, and people of color in order to suppress social movements, penalize free speech, and enact violence on marginalized groups seeking justice. Unfortunately, that...

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EFF's 4th Annual Tech Trivia Night

EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia High School Expressing Concern Over Restriction to Students’ Free Speech

Victory! EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership

FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security

No to Blockchain Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results for Entry to Public Spaces

Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State's Broadband Future

Digital Rights On the Ground: The View from EFF’s Intake Desk

Sen. Merkley Leads on Biometric Privacy

TikTok Ban: A Seed of Genuine Security Concern Wrapped in a Thick Layer of Censorship

Supporting Digital Freedom at the (Virtual) Summer Security Conferences

You're on Camera: Surveillance and Protests. San Francisco Public Press ⁦‪@SFPublicPress‬⁩

EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed

DEF CON Safe Mode: EFF Tech Trivia

Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber and Elon Musk

STOP x RadTech: Practical Cybersecurity for Activists and Organizers

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