Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIsrael,South AfricaPolandSlovakiaCroatia’sBulgaria,Peruegularly Peru has declared a state of emergency in conflict rural areas   to defend their land, the environment, and their rights.  South KoreaEcuador,"While we recognize the severity of the current health crisis and acknowledge that the use of emergency powers is allowed by international law in response to significant threats, we urgently remind States that any emergency responses to the coronavirus must be proportionate, necessary and...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIsrael,South AfricaPolandSlovakiaCroatia’sBulgaria,Peruegularly Peru has declared a state of emergency in conflict rural areas   to defend their land, the environment, and their rights.  South KoreaEcuador,"While we recognize the severity of the current health crisis and acknowledge that the use of emergency powers is allowed by international law in response to significant threats, we urgently remind States that any emergency responses to the coronavirus must be proportionate, necessary and...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…

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 ItA successful German exportSimilarly to these examples, the recently adopted Turkish law shows clear parallels with the German approach: targeting platforms of a certain size, the law incentivizes platforms to implement takedown requests by stipulating significant fees, thereby turning platforms into the ultimate gatekeepers tasked with deciding on the legality of online speech. In important ways, the Turkish law goes way beyond NetzDG, as its scope does not only include social media platforms but also news sites....…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItA successful German exportSimilarly to these examples, the recently adopted Turkish law shows clear parallels with the German approach: targeting platforms of a certain size, the law incentivizes platforms to implement takedown requests by stipulating significant fees, thereby turning platforms into the ultimate gatekeepers tasked with deciding on the legality of online speech. In important ways, the Turkish law goes way beyond NetzDG, as its scope does not only include social media platforms but also news sites....WW…

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

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

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItStop us if you’ve heard these: piracy is driving artists out of business. The reason they are starving is because no one pays for things, just illegally downloads them. . These arguments are old and being to get support for rules...In response to the very real pressures that online news outlets are facing, Congress continues to believe the very flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a magic solution. It is not. In fact, it is actively dangerous. And there’s a available....Much of what...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItStop us if you’ve heard these: piracy is driving artists out of business. The reason they are starving is because no one pays for things, just illegally downloads them. . These arguments are old and being to get support for rules...In response to the very real pressures that online news outlets are facing, Congress continues to believe the very flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a magic solution. It is not. In fact, it is actively dangerous. And there’s a available....Much of what...WW…