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Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | September 7, 2023

EFF Award Winner: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan

In 1992 EFF presented our very first awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. Now in 2023 we are continuing to celebrate the accomplishments of people working toward a better future for technology users with the EFF Awards!

Event | September 24, 2023

MOKANCAN Meet-up

Join the Missouri and Kansas Cyber Alliance Network at it’s regular in-person meeting.

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | September 5, 2023

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.11

Summer break is over, so it's time to catch up on the latest news in digital freedoms! There's no better way to learn about what's happening with digital privacy and free expression than with EFF's EFFector newsletter. This latest issue goes over the terrible Protecting Kids on Social Media Act,...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | September 5, 2023

Montana’s New Genetic Privacy Law Caps Off Ten Years of Innovative State Privacy Protections

Montana’s success in passing mostly reasonable privacy laws shows that concerns about privacy easily cut across political lines. While we wait for the federal government to pass any meaningful comprehensive privacy laws, states should look to Montana as a model for innovative ways to protect their own residents’ privacy interests.

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | September 5, 2023

UK Online Safety Bill Will Mandate Dangerous Age Verification for Much of the Web

This blog post was co-written by Dr. Monica Horten, and is also available on the Open Rights Group website.Under new age verification rules in the UK’s massive Online Safety Bill, all internet platforms with UK users will have to stop minors from accessing ‘harmful’ content, as defined by...

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | August 30, 2023

Podcast Episode Rerelease: Securing the Vote

This episode was first published on May 24, 2022.U.S. democracy is at an inflection point, and how we administer and verify our elections is more important than ever. From hanging chads to glitchy touchscreens to partisan disinformation, too many Americans worry that their votes won’t count and that election results...

Deeplinks Blog by Electronic Frontier Foundation | August 29, 2023

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.

Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes called Tier 2 and 3),...

Deeplinks Blog by Thorin Klosowski | August 28, 2023

Apple, Long a Critic of Right to Repair, Comes Out in Support of California Bill

Apple has announced a surprising stance in support of California’s Right to Repair Act (S.B. 244). This is a sign that the public’s strong support of the right to repair has forced Apple to change its position, and now is the time for you to help keep the pressure...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley, Sophia Cope | August 28, 2023

The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA

While this bill is technically an alternative to the Kids Online Safety Act, it is a bad one. As we’ve said before, no one should have to hand over their driver’s license just to access free websites. Having to hand over that driver’s license to a government program doesn’t solve...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | August 25, 2023

Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis

A District Court recently considered a civil claim that the Treasury Department overstepped when it listed Tornado Cash on the U.S. sanctions list. This claim took some steps, if not enough, to address EFF’s concerns about coders rights. In the case, Van Loon v Department of the Treasury, EFF...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | August 24, 2023

Fourth Circuit Decision in Marriott Data Breach Case Kicks the Can Down the Road

Privacy laws need to be strong and not full of holes that leave us without protection because of a single click or some tiny fine print that no one reads. We need a strong data privacy law that prohibits waivers and mandatory arbitration requirements letting companies sidestep users’ basic legal...

Event | October 27, 2023

Berkeley Law Symposium - California Constitutional Privacy at 50: Power of State Law and Promoting Racial Justice in the Digital Age

California Constitutional Privacy at 50: Power of State Law and Promoting Racial Justice in the Digital Age4th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall SymposiumThe symposium will bring together leading academics and practitioners to explore the landscape of California’s constitutional right to privacy at age 50, highlight how the right is currently used to...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | August 22, 2023

Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Threatens to be an Expansive Global Surveillance Pact

Broadly scoped, ambiguous, and nonspecific international cooperation measures with few conditions and safeguards are simply a recipe for disaster that can put basic privacy and free expression rights at risk. As it stands, the treaty’s international cooperation chapter sorely lacks the robust safeguards and personal data protections needed to fill...

Event | August 29, 2023

EMR Privacy: How Health Information Exchange is Putting Abortion Patients at Risk

In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act was passed, a federal law governing the sharing of electronic health information and putting boundaries in place on the information that providers and institutions can legally block on patients’ medical records.With the fall of Roe v. Wade last year, and states passing new...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel de Zeeuw, Aaron Jue | August 22, 2023

EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 31

August marked the return of DEF CON, the world’s largest computer hacking conference. That means it was also the return of the EFF Benefit Poker Tournament, an official DC31 Contest hosted by security expert and EFF advisory board member Tarah Wheeler.Fifty-one EFF supporters and friends played in...

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EFF Award Winner: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan

MOKANCAN Meet-up

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.11

Montana’s New Genetic Privacy Law Caps Off Ten Years of Innovative State Privacy Protections

UK Online Safety Bill Will Mandate Dangerous Age Verification for Much of the Web

Podcast Episode Rerelease: Securing the Vote

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.

Apple, Long a Critic of Right to Repair, Comes Out in Support of California Bill

The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA

Tornado Cash Civil Decision Limits the Reach of the Treasury Department’s Actions while Skirting a Full First Amendment Analysis

Fourth Circuit Decision in Marriott Data Breach Case Kicks the Can Down the Road

Berkeley Law Symposium - California Constitutional Privacy at 50: Power of State Law and Promoting Racial Justice in the Digital Age

Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Threatens to be an Expansive Global Surveillance Pact

EMR Privacy: How Health Information Exchange is Putting Abortion Patients at Risk

EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 31

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