Category: Deeplinks

California Law Enforcement Misused State Databases More Than 7,000 Times in 2023

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run…

Don’t Make Copyright Law in Smoke-Filled Rooms

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EFF to Michigan Supreme Court: Cell Phone Search Warrants Must Strictly Follow The Fourth Amendment’s Particularity and Probable Cause Requirements

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan, ACLU, and ACLU of Michigan, filed an amicus brief in People v. Carson in the Supreme…

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification. Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many…

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Creepy AF and Harmful

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification. Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many…

Second Circuit Rejects Record Labels’ Attempt to Rewrite the DMCA

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In a major win for creator communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has once again handed video streaming site Vimeo a solid win…

Speaking Freely: Lina Attalah

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> This interview has been edited for length and clarity.* Jillian York: Welcome, let’s start here. What does free speech or free expression mean to you personally? Lina…

Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States.

< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> States need to have and use data privacy laws to bring privacy violations to light and hold companies accountable for them. So, we were glad to see…