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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItVirginia’s legislature has passed a bill meant to protect consumer privacy—but the bill, called the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, really far more than the interests of everyday consumers.Virginia: Speak Up for Real PrivacyThe bill, which both&nbsp;Microsoft and Amazon supported, is now headed to the desk of Governor Ralph Northam. This week, EFF joined with the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Consumer Federation of America, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, U.S. PIRG to , or for the governor to add a reenactment clause—a move that would send the bill back to the legislature to try again.As passed by the legislature, the bill is set to go into effect in 2023 and will establish a working group to make improvements between now and then. That offers some chance for improvements—but it likely won’t be enough to get real consumer protections. As&nbsp;we noted&nbsp;, “These groups appreciate that Governor Northam’s office has engaged with the concerns of consumer groups and committed to a robust stakeholder process to improve this bill. Yet the fundamental problems with the CDPA are too big to be fixed after the fact.”Consumer privacy rights must be the foundation of any real privacy bill. The CDPA was written without meaningful input from consumer advocates; in fact, as Protocol reported, it was handed to the bill’s sponsor . Some have suggested the Virginia bill could be a model for other states or for federal legislation. That’s bad for Virginia and bad for all of us.Virginians, it’s time to take a stand. Tell Governor Northam that this bill is not good enough, and urge him to veto it or send it back for another try.VIRGINIA: SPEAK UP FOR REAL PRIVACYShare ItEFF the Turkish government’s crackdown on tech platforms and its continuing efforts to force them to comply with draconian rules on content control and access to users’ data. As of now, the Turkish government has now managed to coerce , , and ...San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained emails that show that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sent at least one request—and likely many more—for Amazon Ring camera video of last summer’s Black-led protests against police violence. In a released today, EFF shows that the...San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a white paper outlining how we can usher in a new regime of interoperability aimed at breaking big tech’s grip on users’ Internet experience while still protecting user privacy. In a white paper entitled ,...To have privacy and security in the digital world, encryption is an indispensable ingredient. Without it, we’re all at risk of exploitation—by authoritarian governments, over-reaching police, nosy corporations, and online criminals.But for some years now, federal law enforcement has paid lip service to “cybersecurity,” while actually ...This post is the fourth in a series about our new report, a set of questions and answers about privacy and data protection in , , , , , , , , and . The...This post is the third in a series about our new report, a set of questions and answers about privacy and data protection in , , , , , , , , and . The...Almost one year after EFF Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it appears they are starting to make this necessary change. This call was a response to a number of problematic and potentially harmful incidents, including about Ring’s security and reports...It’s an uncontroversial position that EFF has long fought for: Internet users expect their private online activities to stay that way. That’s why law enforcement should have to get a search warrant before getting records of people’s Internet activities. But in a earlier this month, the Arizona...The new administration can do two things immediately that would help stop some of the more nefarious ways that police departments get surveillance technology. It should further roll back the infamous 1033 program of the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows local police to inherit military gear. And it should...Imagine this scenario: You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you provide your license and registration, the officer catches you off guard by asking: “Since you’ve got nothing to hide, you don’t mind unlocking your phone for me, do you?” Of course, you don’t...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItVirginia’s legislature has passed a bill meant to protect consumer privacy—but the bill, called the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, really far more than the interests of everyday consumers.Virginia: Speak Up for Real PrivacyThe bill, which both&nbsp;Microsoft and Amazon supported, is now headed to the desk of Governor Ralph Northam. This week, EFF joined with the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Consumer Federation of America, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, U.S. PIRG to , or for the governor to add a...

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