Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThis blog post was co-written by EFF intern .EFF filed an  in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit urging the court to hold that under the First Amendment public schools may not punish students for their off-campus speech, including posting to social media while off campus.The Supreme Court has long held that students have the same constitutional rights to speak in their communities as do adults, and this principle should not change in the social media age. In its landmark 1969 student speech...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThis blog post was co-written by EFF intern .EFF filed an  in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit urging the court to hold that under the First Amendment public schools may not punish students for their off-campus speech, including posting to social media while off campus.The Supreme Court has long held that students have the same constitutional rights to speak in their communities as do adults, and this principle should not change in the social media age. In its landmark 1969 student speech...WW…

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 ItExperts from the world’s top engineering programs have come together to share knowledge about medical technology, hoping to make life-saving treatments more widely available. Importantly, they’re ensuring that patents, copyrights, and other legal restrictions don’t get between that knowledge and the people who need it most.The availability of ventilators has emerged as a limiting factor in treatment of the COVID-19 virus, prompting researchers to imagine alternatives to the proprietary machines most commonly in...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItExperts from the world’s top engineering programs have come together to share knowledge about medical technology, hoping to make life-saving treatments more widely available. Importantly, they’re ensuring that patents, copyrights, and other legal restrictions don’t get between that knowledge and the people who need it most.The availability of ventilators has emerged as a limiting factor in treatment of the COVID-19 virus, prompting researchers to imagine alternatives to the proprietary machines most commonly in...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOnline proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are and . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— by a...Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children’s care. Daycare and preschool applications frequently include notifications of feedings, diaper...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOnline proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are and . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— by a...Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children’s care. Daycare and preschool applications frequently include notifications of feedings, diaper...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 ItEFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group had breached its systems and enabled NSO Group’s government clients to hack into the mobile phones of approximately in April and May 2019. A federal judge allowed the case to earlier this year and NSO Group appealed.NSO Group sells its “Pegasus” spyware, which enables surreptitious digital surveillance of mobile devices, exclusively to...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group had breached its systems and enabled NSO Group’s government clients to hack into the mobile phones of approximately in April and May 2019. A federal judge allowed the case to earlier this year and NSO Group appealed.NSO Group sells its “Pegasus” spyware, which enables surreptitious digital surveillance of mobile devices, exclusively to...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItFor years EFF has been U.S. companies that act as “repression’s little helpers” to be held accountable, and now we’re telling the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite all the ways that technology has been used as a force for good—connecting people around the world, giving voice to the less powerful, and facilitating knowledge sharing—technology has also been used as a and , a dark side that cannot be denied.Today EFF filed a urging the Supreme Court to preserve one of the few tools of legal accountability that exist for...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItFor years EFF has been U.S. companies that act as “repression’s little helpers” to be held accountable, and now we’re telling the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite all the ways that technology has been used as a force for good—connecting people around the world, giving voice to the less powerful, and facilitating knowledge sharing—technology has also been used as a and , a dark side that cannot be denied.Today EFF filed a urging the Supreme Court to preserve one of the few tools of legal accountability that exist for...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOnline proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are and . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— by a...Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children’s care. Daycare and preschool applications frequently include notifications of feedings, diaper...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOnline proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are and . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— by a...Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children’s care. Daycare and preschool applications frequently include notifications of feedings, diaper...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an historic opinion in , upholding the free speech rights of public school students. The court adopted the position EFF urged in our that the First Amendment prohibits disciplining public school students for off-campus social media speech.B.L. was a high school student who had failed to make the varsity cheerleading squad and was placed on junior varsity instead. Out of frustration, she posted—over the weekend and off school grounds—a Snapchat selfie with text...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an historic opinion in , upholding the free speech rights of public school students. The court adopted the position EFF urged in our that the First Amendment prohibits disciplining public school students for off-campus social media speech.B.L. was a high school student who had failed to make the varsity cheerleading squad and was placed on junior varsity instead. Out of frustration, she posted—over the weekend and off school grounds—a Snapchat selfie with text...WW…