< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> It’s the weekend. You decide you want to do something fun with your family—maybe go to a local festival or park. So, you start searching on your…
Category: Deeplinks
The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Remains Too Flawed to Adopt
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention, scheduled for a critical concluding session from 29 July to August 9th, poses a significant threat to global human rights unless major…
Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s…
EU Council Presidency’s Last-Ditch Effort For Mass Scanning Must Be Rejected
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> As the current leadership of the EU Council enters its final weeks, it is debating a dangerous proposal that could lead to scanning the private files of…
Security, Surveillance, and Government Overreach – the United States Set the Path but Canada Shouldn’t Follow It
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Canadian House of Commons is currently considering Bill C-26, which would make sweeping amendments to the country’s Telecommunications Act that would expand its Minister of Industry’s power…
Win for Free Speech! Australia Drops Global Takedown Order Case
As we put it in a blog post last month, no single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire internet. That’s why EFF celebrates the news that Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is dropping its legal effort to have…
Car Makers Shouldn’t Be Selling Our Driving History to Data Brokers and Insurance Companies
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> You accelerated multiple times on your way to Yosemite for the weekend. You braked when driving to a doctor appointment. If your car has internet capabilities, GPS…
Podcast Episode: AI on the Artist’s Palette
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has…
EFF Appeals Order Denying Public Access to Patent Filings
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> It’s bad enough when a patent holder enforcing their rights in court try to exclude the public from those fights. What’s even worse is when courts endorse…
The Alaska Supreme Court Takes Aerial Surveillance’s Threat to Privacy Seriously, Other Courts Should Too
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In March, the Alaska Supreme Court held in State v. McKelvey that the Alaska Constitution required law enforcement to obtain a warrant before photographing a private backyard…