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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.Recommendations Sought from Those Affected by Policies to Moderate, Suppress SpeechPRESS RELEASEShare ItSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today a call for feedback and recommendations from organizations and individuals around the world to update the landmark 2018 Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability, which established due process standards for moderating users’ online speech.Parties interested in strengthening and expanding the standards can submit feedback, comments, and recommendations starting today at .The , and a small group of organizations and advocates, established a set of practices that social media platforms should undertake to provide transparency about why and how often they take down users’ posts, photos, videos and other content. The principles call for companies to, at a minimum, disclose information about how many posts are removed, notify users about content removal, and give users meaningful opportunities to appeal take downs and have content restored. They have been implemented by Reddit and endorsed by Apple, Github, Twitter, YouTube, and several other platforms.But content moderation practices are changing in response to world events and misinformation campaigns. For example, tech companies are to sift through and remove content as they send home human moderators amid the pandemic.“We recognize the need to take a global approach to protecting users from vague and unfair content moderation practices,” said EFF is seeking feedback on whether the principles’ three core areas of focus—numbers, notice, and appeals—should be expanded or revised. Other topics include whether the Santa Clara Principles should include standards for reporting the use of AI in content moderation and ranking, or be applied to the moderation of advertising. Are there specific risks to human rights that the principles could address, and are there regional, national, or cultural considerations that should be included in the standards?The call for submissions will be open through June 30. Comments and recommendations will be reviewed by organizations including Global Partners Digital, Open Technology Institute, Brennan Center for Justice, Article 19, Center for Democracy and Technology, Ranking Digital Rights, ACLU of Northern California, Witness, and AccessNow. The feedback will be used to assess if and how the principles should be amended.For more on the Santa Clara Principles:For more on content moderation:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact:&nbsp;Share ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to ...Vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly urgent from public health officials and various governments. As they roll out, we must protect users of vaccine passports and those who do not want to use—or cannot use—a digitally scannable means to prove vaccination. We cannot let the tools used to fight for public...This post was updated on 6/29/21 to more accurately describe how New York is running its voluntary vaccine passport programThe State of California recently released what it calls a “.” It is part of that state’s of...The U.S. is distributing more vaccines and . Returning to regular means of activity and movement has become the main focus for many Americans who want to travel or see family. An increasingly common proposal to get there is digital proof-of-vaccination,...As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has begun across the U.S., there have been of people having trouble getting it—not just because of its limited availability, but also because some counties and states . This...We're excited to have yet another "At Home with the EFF" event coming up this , with panels making sense of all the online censorship issues emerging this year. From the takedown of Parler to Trump getting banned, we'll offer an insider look on how censorship decisions...Location tracking apps. Spyware to enforce quarantine. Immunity passports. Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.But heavy-handed tactics like these , precisely when trust is needed most. They also invade our privacy and...In a year that saw every facet of online life reshaped the coronavirus pandemic, online content moderation and platform censorship were no exception. After a successful to encourage large platforms to adopt best practices and endorse the , 2020...A COVID vaccine has been approved and . With them have come proposals of ways to prove you have been vaccinated, based on the presumption that vaccination renders a person immune and unable to spread the virus. The latter is ...Today California joined dozens of other states and countries in launching its COVID-19 exposure notification app, CA Notify, built on API. Google and Apple’s API is already used in , as well as countries , ...

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.Recommendations Sought from Those Affected by Policies to Moderate, Suppress SpeechPRESS RELEASEShare ItSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today a call for feedback and recommendations from organizations and individuals around the world to update the landmark 2018 Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability, which established due process standards for moderating users’ online speech.Parties interested in strengthening and expanding the standards can submit feedback, comments, and...

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