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Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

Update, June 11, 2021: Today, we updated this paper with a new appendix, "The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly," which analyzes the legal benefits of interoperability under the GDPR, where a regional privacy law creates a sturdy privacy backstop for interoperability remedies. This appendix is also available as ...

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EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration

Contents Introduction Surveillance Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Facial Recognition Technology Border Search and Immigration Surveillance Encryption Background on Encryption Backdoors End-to-End Encryption and Client-Side Scanning Broadband 21st-Century-Ready Access for All Americans Net Neutrality and Public Safety Section 230 Deepfakes Mandated Political Neutrality CSAM, Sex Trafficking and other...

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Unfiltered: How YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online

ContentsIntroduction YouTube's Content ID: Culture of Fear Case Study 1: hbomberguy How Content ID Dictates Expression on YouTube: Practically, Fair Use Has No Effect Case Study 2: Todd in the Shadows Creators Cannot...

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The Failed Fix to NSL Gag Orders: How the Majority of National Security Letter Recipients Remain Gagged After USA FREEDOM

This report details how, despite repeated efforts by Congress and federal courts, the FBI’s controversial national security letter (“NSL”) authority remains unconstitutional by subjecting recipients to indefinite prior restraints. EFF’s analysis of records it obtained in a Freedom of Information Act suit concludes that absent further judicial or legislative intervention...

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Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the fundamentals of third-party tracking, explain the scope of the problem, and suggest ways for users and legislation to fight back against the status...

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Certbot Usability Case Study: Making It Easier To Get HTTPS Certificates

When EFF launched the Certbot tool in 2016, our goal was to help website administrators secure their sites with HTTPS certificates. Since then, our technology and design teams have received feedback from users about their barriers to using Certbot, how they find it, what makes it useful, and what a...

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The Case for Fiber to the Home, Today: Why Fiber is a Superior Medium for 21st Century Broadband

The debate over the best infrastructure to deliver fixed last-mile broadband service in the 21st century is settled, and fiber is the undisputed winner. Fiber-to-the-home deployments are a better option for consumers today, and they are the only option that will allow expansive, efficient upgrades to America’s networks for a...

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Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks

Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Necessary background info Section 3: Overview of attacks Section 3.1: Basic IMSI-catcher Section 3.2: Communication interception Section 3.2.1: Spoofing authentication Section 3.2.2: Dealing with encryption Section 3.2.3: Why aren’t...

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Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

Legal RequestsPlatformPolicyRequestsNoticeAppealsMechan-ismsAppealsTrans-parencySantaClaraPrinciplesApple App StoreDailymotionFacebookGitHubGoogle Play StoreInstagramLinkedInMediumPinterestRedditSnapTumblrTwitterVimeoWordpress.comYouTubeDownload chart as PDF. See earlier Who Has Your Back? reports: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.by Andrew Crocker, Gennie Gebhart, Aaron Mackey,Kurt Opsahl, Hayley Tsukayama, Jamie Lee Williams, and Jillian...

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Caught in the Net: The Impact of "Extremist" Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content

A joint publication from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Syrian Archive, and Witnessby Abdul Rahman Al Jaloud, Hadi Al Khatib,Jeff Deutch, Dia Kayyali, and Jillian C. YorkContentsIntroduction Content moderation and “extremist content” Blunt measures affect marginalized users Example 1: Independence for Chechnya Example 2: Kurdish...

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Protecting Security Researchers' Rights in the Americas

"Protecting Security Researchers' Rights in the Americas" is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).ContentsExecutive Summary Code is Expression: Computer Programming as Expressive Activity Protected by the American Convention of Human Rights Cybercrime and Free Expression in the Americas Prohibitions on Security Software Vulnerability...

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The Cautious Path to Strategic Advantage: How Militaries Should Plan for AI

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Shahar Avin, Miles Brundage, Cindy Cohn, Corynne McSherry, Paul Scharre, and Kerstin Vignard for helpful suggestions and comments on the content of this document.Table of ContentsIntroduction Executive Summary Rising Military Interest in AI Part I: How Military Use of AI Could Create...

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Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2018

Legal takedown requests Platform policy takedown requests Provides meaningful notice Allows appeals Limits geographic scope Download Chart as PDFby Nate Cardozo, Andrew Crocker, Gennie Gebhart, Jennifer Lynch, Kurt Opsahl, and Jillian C. YorkContentsExecutive Summary Introduction: Government Censorship in the Age of HTTPS...

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Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology

Last updated: April 20, 2020Executive SummaryFace recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement’s use of it is increasing rapidly. Today, law enforcement officers can use mobile devices to capture face recognition-ready photographs of people they stop on the street; surveillance cameras...

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Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

In the Internet’s early days, those wishing to register their own domain name had only a few choices of top-level domain to choose from, such as .com, .net, or .org. Today, users, innovators, and companies can get creative and choose from more than a thousand top-level domains, such as .cool,...

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Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

EFF Transition Memo to Incoming Biden Administration

Unfiltered: How YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online

The Failed Fix to NSL Gag Orders: How the Majority of National Security Letter Recipients Remain Gagged After USA FREEDOM

Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

Certbot Usability Case Study: Making It Easier To Get HTTPS Certificates

The Case for Fiber to the Home, Today: Why Fiber is a Superior Medium for 21st Century Broadband

Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell Networks

Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019

Caught in the Net: The Impact of "Extremist" Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content

Protecting Security Researchers' Rights in the Americas

The Cautious Path to Strategic Advantage: How Militaries Should Plan for AI

Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2018

Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology

Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

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