Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare Itwere able to achieveShare ItSAN FRANCISCO–The European Union reached another milestone by approving the “Digital Services Act package” this week. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are intended to create a safer and more competitive digital space.By setting out new responsibilities for online platforms, the Digital Services Act (DSA) was supposed...The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a long-awaited judgment on the compatibility of the EU Copyright Directive’s filtering...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare Itwere able to achieveShare ItSAN FRANCISCO–The European Union reached another milestone by approving the “Digital Services Act package” this week. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are intended to create a safer and more competitive digital space.By setting out new responsibilities for online platforms, the Digital Services Act (DSA) was supposed...The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a long-awaited judgment on the compatibility of the EU Copyright Directive’s filtering...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIt seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new step in his blatant effort to use . Second, new reports are demonstrating, if further demonstration were needed, how badly Facebook is failing at policing the content on its platform with any consistency whatsoever. The overall message is clear: if content moderation doesn’t work even with the kind of...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIt seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new step in his blatant effort to use . Second, new reports are demonstrating, if further demonstration were needed, how badly Facebook is failing at policing the content on its platform with any consistency whatsoever. The overall message is clear: if content moderation doesn’t work even with the kind of...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItPodcast Episode 108Your friends, your medical concerns, your political ideology— financial transactions tell the story of your life in intimate details. But U.S. law has failed to protect this sensitive data from prying eyes. Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they talk to Marta Belcher, one of the...We have an amazing opportunity to join the EFF team.We are hiring a , a position that is a public advocate helping to establish EFF as a leader in the civil liberties implications of decentralizing the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItPodcast Episode 108Your friends, your medical concerns, your political ideology— financial transactions tell the story of your life in intimate details. But U.S. law has failed to protect this sensitive data from prying eyes. Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they talk to Marta Belcher, one of the...We have an amazing opportunity to join the EFF team.We are hiring a , a position that is a public advocate helping to establish EFF as a leader in the civil liberties implications of decentralizing the...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItWith the upcoming U.S. elections, major U.S.-based platforms have stepped up their content moderation practices, likely hoping to avoid the blame after the 2016 election, where many held them responsible for siloing users into ideological bubbles—and, in Facebook’s case, the Cambridge Analytica imbroglio. It’s...San 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...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItWith the upcoming U.S. elections, major U.S.-based platforms have stepped up their content moderation practices, likely hoping to avoid the blame after the 2016 election, where many held them responsible for siloing users into ideological bubbles—and, in Facebook’s case, the Cambridge Analytica imbroglio. It’s...San 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...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It Share ItWhile 2019 saw the EU that through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the , the most significant reform of Europe’s platform legislation the EU has...If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the —the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital....EFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It Share ItWhile 2019 saw the EU that through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the , the most significant reform of Europe’s platform legislation the EU has...If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the —the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital....EFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItA new escalationA call for solidarity Share ItIn a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation provisions and safeguards to ensure that states respect human rights when responding to legal assistance requests.EFF is among a group of ...Even in the face of strong public protest over a set of proposed revisions to criminal laws that infringe Indonesians’ free expression rights, the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItA new escalationA call for solidarity Share ItIn a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation provisions and safeguards to ensure that states respect human rights when responding to legal assistance requests.EFF is among a group of ...Even in the face of strong public protest over a set of proposed revisions to criminal laws that infringe Indonesians’ free expression rights, the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe upcoming U.S. elections have invited broad attention to many of the questions with which civil society has struggled for years: what should companies do about misinformation and hate speech? And what, specifically, should be done when that speech is coming from the world’s most powerful leaders?Silicon Valley companies and U.S. policymakers all too often view these questions through a myopic lens, focusing on troubles at home as if they are new—when there are countless lessons to be learned from their actions...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe upcoming U.S. elections have invited broad attention to many of the questions with which civil society has struggled for years: what should companies do about misinformation and hate speech? And what, specifically, should be done when that speech is coming from the world’s most powerful leaders?Silicon Valley companies and U.S. policymakers all too often view these questions through a myopic lens, focusing on troubles at home as if they are new—when there are countless lessons to be learned from their actions...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOriginating from the streets of Chicago, drill music is a creative output of inner-city Black youths. It is defined by real life experiences and perspectives, and whilst drill rappers often document gang-related conflict and anti-establishment narratives in their lyrics and music videos, the rap genre is a crucial mouthpiece of...If their marketing is to be believed, self-avowed free speech maximalist sites like —“where free speech thrives”—and —“the voice of free speech”—claim they will publish all user...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOriginating from the streets of Chicago, drill music is a creative output of inner-city Black youths. It is defined by real life experiences and perspectives, and whilst drill rappers often document gang-related conflict and anti-establishment narratives in their lyrics and music videos, the rap genre is a crucial mouthpiece of...If their marketing is to be believed, self-avowed free speech maximalist sites like —“where free speech thrives”—and —“the voice of free speech”—claim they will publish all user...WW…