Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItLast month, EFF, along with co-counsel ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts, filed a in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to require a warrant for searches of electronic devices at the border. In fiscal year 2019, border officers searched electronic devices, more than an eight-fold increase since 2012. Because of the significant privacy interests that travelers have in the digital data on their devices, we argued that the government’s warrantless, and usually suspicionless, searches and seizures of...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItLast month, EFF, along with co-counsel ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts, filed a in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to require a warrant for searches of electronic devices at the border. In fiscal year 2019, border officers searched electronic devices, more than an eight-fold increase since 2012. Because of the significant privacy interests that travelers have in the digital data on their devices, we argued that the government’s warrantless, and usually suspicionless, searches and seizures of...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare 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...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare 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...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOur digital rights are only as strong as our power to enforce them. But when we sue government officials for violating our digital rights, they often get away with it because of a dangerous legal doctrine called “qualified immunity.”Do you think you have a First Amendment right to use your cell phone to record on-duty police officers, or to use your social media account to criticize politicians? Do you think you have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy in the content of your personal emails? Courts often protect...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOur digital rights are only as strong as our power to enforce them. But when we sue government officials for violating our digital rights, they often get away with it because of a dangerous legal doctrine called “qualified immunity.”Do you think you have a First Amendment right to use your cell phone to record on-duty police officers, or to use your social media account to criticize politicians? Do you think you have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy in the content of your personal emails? Courts often protect...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for that the First Amendment protects individuals when they secretly audio record on-duty police officers. EFF filed an in the case, Martin v. Rollins, which was brought by the ACLU of Massachusetts on behalf of two civil rights activists. This is a victory for people within the (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island) who want to record an interaction with police officers without exposing themselves to possible reprisals for...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for that the First Amendment protects individuals when they secretly audio record on-duty police officers. EFF filed an in the case, Martin v. Rollins, which was brought by the ACLU of Massachusetts on behalf of two civil rights activists. This is a victory for people within the (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island) who want to record an interaction with police officers without exposing themselves to possible reprisals for...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItWe are disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this week a critical constitutional question: whether individuals have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police officers.EFF had filed an in the case, Frasier v. Evans, asking the court to affirm the existence of the right to record the police in the under the court’s jurisdiction (Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah, and those portions of the Yellowstone National Park extending into Montana and Idaho).Frasier had...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItWe are disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this week a critical constitutional question: whether individuals have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police officers.EFF had filed an in the case, Frasier v. Evans, asking the court to affirm the existence of the right to record the police in the under the court’s jurisdiction (Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah, and those portions of the Yellowstone National Park extending into Montana and Idaho).Frasier had...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItMandated activation of body-worn camerasNo political spying with body-worn camerasRetention of body-worn camera footageOfficer review of footagePublic access to footageEnforcement of these rulesCommunity control over body-worn camerasShare ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItMandated activation of body-worn camerasNo political spying with body-worn camerasRetention of body-worn camera footageOfficer review of footagePublic access to footageEnforcement of these rulesCommunity control over body-worn camerasShare ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItGovernment and private use of face recognition technology each present a wealth of concerns. Privacy, safety, and amplification of carceral bias are just some of the reasons why we must ban government use.But what about private use? It also can exacerbate injustice, including its use by police contractors, establishments, business improvement districts, and .Still, EFF does not support banning private use of the technology. Some users may choose to deploy it to lock their mobile devices or to demonstrate the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItGovernment and private use of face recognition technology each present a wealth of concerns. Privacy, safety, and amplification of carceral bias are just some of the reasons why we must ban government use.But what about private use? It also can exacerbate injustice, including its use by police contractors, establishments, business improvement districts, and .Still, EFF does not support banning private use of the technology. Some users may choose to deploy it to lock their mobile devices or to demonstrate the...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90 days....Earlier this week, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Demand Progress expressing our concerns about H.R. 3962, The Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2021 or SECURE Notarization Act....…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90 days....Earlier this week, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Demand Progress expressing our concerns about H.R. 3962, The Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2021 or SECURE Notarization Act....WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF opposes police Body Worn Cameras (), unless they come with strict safeguards to ensure they actually promote officer accountability without surveilling the public. Police already have surveillance technologies, and deploy them all too frequently against people of color and protesters. We have taken this approach since 2015, when we a federal grant to the LAPD for purchase of BWCs, because the LAPD failed to adopt necessary safeguards about camera activation, public access to footage, officer misuse of footage,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF opposes police Body Worn Cameras (), unless they come with strict safeguards to ensure they actually promote officer accountability without surveilling the public. Police already have surveillance technologies, and deploy them all too frequently against people of color and protesters. We have taken this approach since 2015, when we a federal grant to the LAPD for purchase of BWCs, because the LAPD failed to adopt necessary safeguards about camera activation, public access to footage, officer misuse of footage,...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThis November, Californians will be called upon to vote on a ballot initiative called the , or . EFF does not support it; nor does EFF oppose it.EFF works across the country to and laws that empower technology users to control how businesses process their personal information. The consumer data privacy laws require businesses to get consumers’ opt-in consent before processing their data; bar data processing except as necessary to give consumers what they asked for (often called “data minimization”); forbid “pay for...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThis November, Californians will be called upon to vote on a ballot initiative called the , or . EFF does not support it; nor does EFF oppose it.EFF works across the country to and laws that empower technology users to control how businesses process their personal information. The consumer data privacy laws require businesses to get consumers’ opt-in consent before processing their data; bar data processing except as necessary to give consumers what they asked for (often called “data minimization”); forbid “pay for...WW…