Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItBack by popular demand, we're hosting a third (PT)! In addition to our EFF all-stars, we'll be joined by special guests Şerife Wong, founder of Icarus Salon, and the magical Brad Barton (aka reality thief). As this event coincides with , our panels will highlight considerations for nonprofits and mutual aid organizers, including an update on last week's victory in protecting the .ORG registry from being sold to a private equity...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItBack by popular demand, we're hosting a third (PT)! In addition to our EFF all-stars, we'll be joined by special guests Şerife Wong, founder of Icarus Salon, and the magical Brad Barton (aka reality thief). As this event coincides with , our panels will highlight considerations for nonprofits and mutual aid organizers, including an update on last week's victory in protecting the .ORG registry from being sold to a private equity...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIf 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 and other leaders in the NGO community sprung to action, writing a letter to ISOC . What follows was possibly . .Oversight by a nonprofit was always part of the plan for .ORG.Prior to the announcement, EFF had spent six months about the 2019 .ORG Registry Agreement, which gave the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIf 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 and other leaders in the NGO community sprung to action, writing a letter to ISOC . What follows was possibly . .Oversight by a nonprofit was always part of the plan for .ORG.Prior to the announcement, EFF had spent six months about the 2019 .ORG Registry Agreement, which gave the...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItCan secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. Our amicus in the case of United States v. Ellis also explains why source code, and other aspects of forensic software programs...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItCan secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. Our amicus in the case of United States v. Ellis also explains why source code, and other aspects of forensic software programs...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.Recommendations Sought from Those Affected by Policies to Moderate, Suppress SpeechPRESS RELEASEShare ItSan 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 Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability, which established due process standards for moderating users’ online speech.Parties interested in strengthening and expanding the standards can submit feedback, comments, and...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.Recommendations Sought from Those Affected by Policies to Moderate, Suppress SpeechPRESS RELEASEShare ItSan 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 Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability, which established due process standards for moderating users’ online speech.Parties interested in strengthening and expanding the standards can submit feedback, comments, and...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEven before it announced that it would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Frontier had a well-deserved reputation for mismanagement and abusive conduct. In an industry that routinely enrages its customers, Frontier was the , an and of the industry's and . As Frontier’s bankruptcy has shown, there was no good reason they—and all old big Internet service providers—couldn’t provide blazing-fast fiber on par with services in South Korea and Japan.Frontier's bankruptcy announcement forced the company to its finances, past...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEven before it announced that it would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Frontier had a well-deserved reputation for mismanagement and abusive conduct. In an industry that routinely enrages its customers, Frontier was the , an and of the industry's and . As Frontier’s bankruptcy has shown, there was no good reason they—and all old big Internet service providers—couldn’t provide blazing-fast fiber on par with services in South Korea and Japan.Frontier's bankruptcy announcement forced the company to its finances, past...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIn contrast to 2016, there has been a significant advance in the content and form of privacy and data protection policies. They are now complete and accessible. However, information on data deletion is often missing, and changes in their privacy policies are rarely proactively reported. While Claro and TIM send messages to their users about their privacy policy changes, Oi only tells users that any change will be available on their website. Far behind is Vivo, which reserves the right to change its policy at any...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIn contrast to 2016, there has been a significant advance in the content and form of privacy and data protection policies. They are now complete and accessible. However, information on data deletion is often missing, and changes in their privacy policies are rarely proactively reported. While Claro and TIM send messages to their users about their privacy policy changes, Oi only tells users that any change will be available on their website. Far behind is Vivo, which reserves the right to change its policy at any...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 ItIt’s been a joke for years now, from the days when Facebook was just a website where you said you were eating a sandwich and Instagram was just where you posted photos of said sandwich, but, right now, we really are living our everyday lives online. Teachers are trying to teach classes online, librarians are trying to host digital readings, and trainers are trying to offer home classes.With more people entering the online world, more people are encountering the barriers created by copyright. Now is no time to make...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIt’s been a joke for years now, from the days when Facebook was just a website where you said you were eating a sandwich and Instagram was just where you posted photos of said sandwich, but, right now, we really are living our everyday lives online. Teachers are trying to teach classes online, librarians are trying to host digital readings, and trainers are trying to offer home classes.With more people entering the online world, more people are encountering the barriers created by copyright. Now is no time to make...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 ItOur main recommendations are:Share ItThe 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 of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The ruling recognizes the tension between copyright filters and the right to freedom of expression, but falls...(AKA “Meta”), alleging that the tech giants colluded to rig ad markets so that they could misappropriate ad revenues that were properly owed to the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOur main recommendations are:Share ItThe 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 of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The ruling recognizes the tension between copyright filters and the right to freedom of expression, but falls...(AKA “Meta”), alleging that the tech giants colluded to rig ad markets so that they could misappropriate ad revenues that were properly owed to the...WW…