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Deeplinks Blog by Maggie Utgoff | September 10, 2015

Welcome Frank Stanton Legal Fellow Aaron Mackey

EFF welcomes our newest staff member Aaron Mackey to the team. Aaron joins us as a Frank Stanton Legal Fellow (along with current Stanton Fellow Jamie Williams), for a two-year fellowship sponsored by the Stanton Foundation. He and his family spent the last three years in Washington, D.C., where...

Deeplinks Blog by Amul Kalia | September 10, 2015

EFF Asks New Jersey’s Supreme Court to Maintain State’s Commitment to Privacy

The Attorney General’s Office of New Jersey is on a crusade to dismantle the important search and seizure protections afforded to the state’s citizens. As part of the latest assault on individual rights to due process, in State v. Lunsford, the attorney general has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court...

Deeplinks Blog by Dia Kayyali | September 9, 2015

EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful—Not an Afterthought

The working group at Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number (ICANN) that has been tasked with designing a new domain registration database can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes to domain registration services. ICANN’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Registration Directory...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | September 8, 2015

Court Ruling Against Backpage.com is a Setback for Online Speech in Washington State

The Washington State Supreme Court delivered a disappointing decision last week, allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Backpage.com for the use of its classified ads service by sex traffickers. Three minor trafficking victims brought the suit against Backpage, alleging that the website played a "substantial role" in developing the...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Bill Budington, Nate Cardozo | September 8, 2015

EFF Applauds Apple’s Refusal of Government Demand for iMessage Backdoor

Earlier this summer, when FBI Director James Comey made his case for backdooring strong encryption, he told us that he wanted to hash out the policy considerations surrounding encryption, law enforcement, and security in public: “Democracies resolve such tensions through robust debate.” This week, we learned that Comey apparently...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | September 8, 2015

Dragon Con Cosplayers Fiercely Defend Privacy and Free Speech in Project Secret Identity 2015

More than 120 cosplayers posed for privacy and free speech at EFF and Access Now's Project Secret Identity station at Dragon Con. Over the Labor Day weekend, we were visited by Scarecrow and "Weird Al," Marvel Zombies and self-designed Steampunk characters, and heroes and villains from anime and video games—all...

Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm | September 8, 2015

Nothing Is Agreed Yet—We Can Still Stop The TPP's Copyright Trap

Trade negotiators have a saying—that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. What that means is that despite all of the deals that has been struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations so far, they remain tentative until each country signs off on the final agreement....

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Jeremy Gillula | September 7, 2015

California: Protect Your Driver License Privacy

The California Legislature wants the DMV to start issuing “Enhanced Driver Licenses” (EDL), similar to a REAL ID, that contain an RFID tag that could expose information about you from up to 30 feet away.
We need your help to bring S.B. 249 to a screeching halt...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | September 4, 2015

Cheers to Digital Freedom in Las Vegas

As we say goodbye to another summer of computer security conferences, we would like to take a moment to extend our thanks to the countless people who helped bolster civil liberties defense this year in Las Vegas. Organizers and attendees at Security BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat USA, DEF CON,...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | September 4, 2015

EFF Shines a Light on the NSA’s Plans for Disclosing (or Not) Software Weaknesses

EFF has won a battle in its fight to get the government to disclose its policy for deciding whether to tell the public about critical flaws in software when it finds out about them. Last year, we filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the so-called...

Deeplinks Blog by Nate Cardozo | September 3, 2015

Finally! DOJ Reverses Course and Requires Warrants for Stingrays!

At long last, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a slew of much-needed policy changes regarding the use of cell-site simulators. Most importantly, starting today all federal law enforcement agencies—and all state and local agencies working with the federal government—will be required to obtain a search warrant...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | September 3, 2015

EFF Asks Court on Behalf of Libraries and Booksellers to Recognize Readers’ Right to Be Free of NSA’s Online Surveillance

It should be no surprise that libraries and bookstores—the places where you can go pick up a copy of 1984 or Darkness at Noon—are privacy hipsters. They’ve been fighting overbroad government surveillance since before it was cool. That’s why we’re proud to have filed an amicus brief on...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | September 3, 2015

Street-Level Surveillance in Atlanta

This Labor Day weekend, EFF joins tens of thousands of sci-fi and fantasy fans at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. Our goal: educate and energize the fandoms about privacy, surveillance, and free speech.
In addition to an epic cosplay activism campaign, our team is sitting on almost...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | September 2, 2015

Why Law Enforcement Professionals Should Support CalECPA

The California Legislature is on the brink of passing S.B. 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA). This bill would bring long overdue reforms to how law enforcement searches our digital records by requiring a warrant to access our emails, locational information, documents, and other files.
This...

Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | September 1, 2015

Why Shouldn't Copyright Be Infinite?

The following is a guest post from Eric Crampton, Head of Research at the New Zealand Initiative, who previously served as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economics & Finance at the University of Canterbury.

Australia National University’s Dr. George Barker...

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Welcome Frank Stanton Legal Fellow Aaron Mackey

EFF Asks New Jersey’s Supreme Court to Maintain State’s Commitment to Privacy

EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful—Not an Afterthought

Court Ruling Against Backpage.com is a Setback for Online Speech in Washington State

EFF Applauds Apple’s Refusal of Government Demand for iMessage Backdoor

Dragon Con Cosplayers Fiercely Defend Privacy and Free Speech in Project Secret Identity 2015

Nothing Is Agreed Yet—We Can Still Stop The TPP's Copyright Trap

California: Protect Your Driver License Privacy

Cheers to Digital Freedom in Las Vegas

EFF Shines a Light on the NSA’s Plans for Disclosing (or Not) Software Weaknesses

Finally! DOJ Reverses Course and Requires Warrants for Stingrays!

EFF Asks Court on Behalf of Libraries and Booksellers to Recognize Readers’ Right to Be Free of NSA’s Online Surveillance

Street-Level Surveillance in Atlanta

Why Law Enforcement Professionals Should Support CalECPA

Why Shouldn't Copyright Be Infinite?

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