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EFF Files Amicus Brief with Top French Court to Bring Down Controversial Avia Bill (Christoph Schmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:21:58 +0000
'); document.write('Legislative efforts to regulate online platforms are underway in many countries. Unfortunately, instead of reflecting about how to put users back in control of their online experiences and how to foster innovation, many governments are opting to make online platforms into the new speech police. The French Avia Bill is an example of such privatized enforcement: it forces social media platforms to t...'); document.write('
When the Senate Talks About the Internet, Note Who They Leave Out (Katharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:10:04 +0000
'); document.write('In the midst of pandemic and protest, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued on with the third of many planned hearings about copyright. It is an odd moment to be considering whether or not the notice-and-takedown system laid out by Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is working or not, but since Section 512 is a cornerstone of the Internet and because protestors and those at hom...'); document.write('
California: Stand Up to Face Surveillance (Hayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:43:45 +0000
'); document.write('EFF has joined a broad coalition of civil liberties, civil rights, and labor advocates to oppose A.B. 2261, which threatens to normalize the increased use of face surveillance of Californians where they live and work. Our allies include the ACLU of California, Oakland Privacy, the California Employment Lawyers Association, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of California, and California ...'); document.write('
Join EFF for a Reddit AMA on EARN IT (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:32:18 +0000
'); document.write('Over the last few months, the EARN IT Act, a bill that would have disastrous consequences for free speech and security online, has gained thousands of critics. Digital rights advocates and technologists have been joined by human rights groups, online platforms, sex worker advocates, policy organizations and think tanks, and Senators alike have joined together to stop the bill, which would drastica...'); document.write('
Surveillance Self-Defense: Attending Protests in the Age of COVID-19 (Bill Budington)
'); document.write('Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:11:34 +0000
'); document.write('In the wake of nationwide protests against the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, we urge protestors to stay safe, both physically and digitally. Our Surveillance Self Defense (SSD) Guide on attending a protest offers practical tips on how to maintain your privacy and minimize your digital footprint while taking to the streets. These demonstrations have taken place against the bac...'); document.write('
The Executive Order Targeting Social Media Gets the FTC, Its Job, and the Law Wrong (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:09:33 +0000
'); document.write('This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump\'s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here, here, and here.The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private Internet speech in several ways. In particular, Sections 4 and 5 seek to address possible deceptive practices, but end up being unnecessary at best and legally...'); document.write('
Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Leverage Government’s Advertising Dollars to Pressure Online Platforms (David Greene)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:32:21 +0000
'); document.write('This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump\'s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts can be found here, here, here, and here.The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) seeks to insert the federal government into private Internet speech in several ways. Section 3 of the EO threatens to leverage the federal government’s significant online advertising spendin...'); document.write('
Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about EARN IT (Daly Barnett)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:21:39 +0000
'); document.write('June 2nd is recognized around the world as the chosen date of countless direct actions and protests in support of the sex workers\' rights movement. Since its inception nearly 45 years ago, International Whores Day reclaims a sometimes derogatory word to set the tone for a day of unrest and political action. June also marks International LGBTQ+ Pride month, and this is the first in a series of blog...'); document.write('
Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report (Corynne McSherryKatharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:19:25 +0000
'); document.write('Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the biggest thing that needs to be restructured is the Internet. Last week, the president issued an order taking on one legal foundation for online expression: Section 230. This week, the Senate is focusin...'); document.write('
Tech Learning Collective: A Grassroots Technology School Case Study (Rory Mir)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:57:40 +0000
'); document.write('Grassroots education is important for making sure advanced technical knowledge is accessible to communities who may otherwise be blocked or pushed out of the field. By sharing this invaluable knowledge and skills, local groups can address and dissolve these barriers to organizers hoping to step up their cybersecurity. The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a network of community-based groups ac...'); document.write('
Trump’s Executive Order Seeks To Have FCC Regulate Platforms. Here’s Why It Won’t Happen (Ernesto FalconDavid Greene)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:12:25 +0000
'); document.write('This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump\'s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here, here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private Internet speech in several ways. Through Section 2 of the Executive Order (EO), the president has attempted to demand the start of a new administrative...'); document.write('
California Cops Can No Longer Pass the Cost of Digital Redaction onto Public Records Requesters (Dave MaassAaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:17:51 +0000
'); document.write('At a dark time when the possibility of police accountability seems especially bleak, there is a new glimmer of light courtesy of the California Supreme Court. Under a new ruling, government agencies cannot pass the cost of redacting police body-camera footage and other digital public records onto the members of the public who requested them under the California Public Records Act (CPRA). The case...'); document.write('
Don’t Mix Policing with COVID-19 Contact Tracing (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:14:37 +0000
'); document.write('Over the weekend, Minnesota’s Public Safety Commissioner analogized COVID-19 contact tracing with police investigation of arrested protesters. This analogy is misleading and dangerous. It also underlines the need for public health officials to practice strict data minimization—including a ban on sharing with police any personal information collected through contact tracing. On May 30, at a press c...'); document.write('
From Tunis to Minneapolis—and Beyond—Social Media Keeps Us Connected (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:25:16 +0000
'); document.write('In January 2011, after hearing about the unrest unfolding in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni (who passed away in January of this year from a chronic illness) began traveling around the country to document the nascent protests and the government’s response to them. “There are no journalists doing this,” she told Newsweek at the time. “And moreover, the official media started to tell ...'); document.write('
Dangers of Trump’s Executive Order Explained (David GreeneCorynne McSherry)
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'); document.write('This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump\'s May 28 Executive Order. Links to other posts are below. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) is a mess on many levels: it’s likely unconstitutional on several grounds, built on false premises, and bad policy to boot. We are no fans of the way dominant social media platforms moderate user content. But th...'); document.write('
Black Lives Matter, Online and in the Streets: Statement from EFF in the Wake of the Police Killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd (Cindy Cohn)
'); document.write('Sun, 31 May 2020 22:34:52 +0000
'); document.write('Black lives matter on the streets. Black lives matter on the Internet. EFF stands with the communities mourning the victims of police homicide. We stand with the protesters who are plowed down by patrol cars. We stand with the journalists placed in handcuffs or fired upon while reporting these atrocities. And we stand with all those using their cameras, phones and digital tools to make sure we ca...'); document.write('
Immunity Passports Are a Threat to Our Privacy and Information Security (Alexis HancockKaren Gullo)
'); document.write('Fri, 29 May 2020 00:47:33 +0000
'); document.write('With states beginning to ease shelter-in-place restrictions, the conversation on COVID-19 has turned to questions of when and how we can return to work, take kids to school, or plan air travel.Several countries and U.S. states, including the UK, Italy, Chile, Germany, and California, have expressed interest in so-called “immunity passports”—a system of requiring people to present supposed proof of...'); document.write('
Watch EFF Cybersecurity Director Eva Galperin\'s TED Talk About Stalkerware (Gennie Gebhart)
'); document.write('Thu, 28 May 2020 23:25:43 +0000
'); document.write('Stalkers and abusive partners want access to your device for the same reason governments and advertisers do: because “full access to a person\'s phone is the next best thing to full access to a person\'s mind,” as EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin explains in her TED talk on “stalkerware” and her efforts to end the abuse this malicious software enables. %3Ciframe%20src%3D...'); document.write('
Trump Executive Order Misreads Key Law Promoting Free Expression Online and Violates the First Amendment (David GreeneAaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:58 +0000
'); document.write('This post based its initial analysis on a draft Executive Order. It has been updated to reflect the final order, available here. President Trump’s Executive Order targeting social media companies is an assault on free expression online and a transparent attempt to retaliate against Twitter for its decision to curate (well, really just to fact-check) his posts and deter everyone else from taking si...'); document.write('
EFF to Court: Broadband Privacy Law Passes First Amendment Muster (Adam SchwartzAndrew CrockerKit Walsh)
'); document.write('Thu, 28 May 2020 20:27:53 +0000
'); document.write('When it comes to surveillance of our online lives, Internet service providers (ISPs) are some of the worst offenders. Last year, the state of Maine passed a law targeted at the harms ISPs do to their customers when they use and sell their personal information. Now that law is under attack from a group of ISPs who claim it violates their First Amendment rights. The lawsuit raises a number of issues...'); document.write('
How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Thu, 28 May 2020 19:55:14 +0000
'); document.write('Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization. It\'s true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks to the migration of discourse to online platforms) and in kind, whether that\'s the rise of nonverba...'); document.write('
Two Federal COVID-19 Privacy Bills: A Good Start and a Misstep (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Thu, 28 May 2020 16:45:41 +0000
'); document.write('COVID-19, and containment efforts that rely on personal data, are shining a spotlight on a longstanding problem: our nation’s lack of sufficient laws to protect data privacy. Two bills before Congress attempt to solve this problem as to COVID-19 data. One is a good start that needs improvements. The other is a misstep that EFF strongly opposes. The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act (PHEPA) was i...'); document.write('
A Plan to Pay Artists, Encourage Competition, and Promote Free Expression (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Wed, 27 May 2020 15:05:56 +0000
'); document.write('Update/Correction, May 27 2020, 2PM Pacific. An earlier version of this article contained the phrase \"the the online music industry is currently generating more revenues than the music industry did at the height of the CD bubble\"; this has been corrected to read \"the online music industry is currently generating more revenues than the music industry at any time since the CD bubble.\" As Congress ge...'); document.write('
The House Is Voting on Section 215, Again. The Bill Still Needs More Reform (India McKinneyMark Rumold)
'); document.write('Tue, 26 May 2020 22:49:01 +0000
'); document.write('Later this week, the House of Representatives is once again voting on whether or not to extend the authorities in Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse, along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, and possibly, an amendment. Congress considered several bills to reauthorize and reform Section 215 earlier this year, but the law expir...'); document.write('
Hearing Tuesday: EFF Urges California Lawmakers to Pass Fiber Broadband for All Bill To Ensure Full Internet Access For Everyone During the Pandemic and Beyond (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Fri, 22 May 2020 15:24:18 +0000
'); document.write('Over One Million Californians Lack Access to High-Speed BroadbandSacramento, California—On Tuesday, May 26, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask California senators to approve a measure that will transition the state’s outdated communications network to fiber, bringing affordable high-speed broadband service, essential during the pandemic and beyond, to all residents.EFF Senior Legisl...'); document.write('
EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Fri, 22 May 2020 15:14:40 +0000
'); document.write('In the Internet age, copyright decisions can have enormous consequences for all kinds of activities, because almost everything we do on the Internet involves making copies. And when courts make a mistake, they may create all sorts of unexpected legal risks. As we explained to the Eleventh Circuit yesterday, a recent ruling from the district court in MidlevelU v. ACI Information Group did just that...'); document.write('
EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Thu, 21 May 2020 19:15:15 +0000
'); document.write('EFF submitted a letter to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to testify to the negative impacts of mass surveillance on vulnerable communities at the U.S. border. The Special Rapporteur called for submissions on “Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies” that examine the harmful effects of electronic surv...'); document.write('
International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19 (Katitza RodriguezSvea WindwehrSeth Schoen)
'); document.write('Thu, 21 May 2020 07:41:55 +0000
'); document.write('Time and again, governments have used crises to expand their power, and often their intrusion into citizens’ lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen this pattern play out on a huge scale. From deploying drones or ankle monitors to enforce quarantine orders to proposals to use face recognition or thermal imaging cameras for monitoring public spaces, governments around the world have been adopting int...'); document.write('
New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Wed, 20 May 2020 22:03:10 +0000
'); document.write('Patent trolls don’t care much about innovation. Their lawsuits and threats are attempts at rent-seeking; they’re demanding money from people who make, use, or sell technology just for doing what they were already doing—for crossing the proverbial “bridge” that the patent troll has decided to lurk under. You might think that, during the Coronavirus outbreak and concurrent economic downturn, meritle...'); document.write('
No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Wed, 20 May 2020 21:11:44 +0000
'); document.write('EFF opposes a California bill, A.B. 2004, that would authorize the issuers of COVID-19 test results to do so with digital verifiable credentials. This bill would take us a step towards national digital identification, create information security risks, exacerbate social inequities in access to smartphones and COVID-19 tests, endorse one solution to an evolving technological problem, and fail to li...'); document.write('
COVID-19 Patients’ Right to Privacy Against Quarantine Surveillance (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Wed, 20 May 2020 20:23:40 +0000
'); document.write('Governments around the world are using surveillance technologies to monitor whether COVID-19 patients are complying with instructions to quarantine at home. These include GPS ankle shackles, phone apps that track location, and phone apps that require patients to periodically take quarantine selfies and send them to government monitors. All of these surveillance technologies burden fundamental righ...'); document.write('
California Prisons Block AI Researchers from Examining Parole Denials (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Wed, 20 May 2020 18:48:26 +0000
'); document.write('EFF Clients Want Access to Public Records on Race and Ethnicity in Parole HearingsSan Francisco - A team of researchers who want to develop a machine learning platform to help analyze and detect any patterns of bias in California parole-suitability decisions has been blocked for years by the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In a lawsuit filed today by the Electronic Fro...'); document.write('
Facebook\'s Oversight Board: Who (and What) Is Missing From the Picture So Far (Corynne McSherryJillian C. York)
'); document.write('Wed, 20 May 2020 09:46:59 +0000
'); document.write('We’ve been skeptical of Facebook’s Oversight Board from day one. We’ll follow closely and keep open minds, because we appreciate it is a first attempt at some semblance of much-needed governance and external review. But no amount of “oversight” can fix the underlying problem: Content moderation is extremely difficult to get right, particularly at Facebook scale. And, given the tiny percentage of d...'); document.write('
Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger: Your Stories Needed! (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Tue, 19 May 2020 22:44:18 +0000
'); document.write('There\'s a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley\'s tech giants: it\'s a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets (\"mergers to monopoly\") and acquisitions of small companies to neutralize future competitive threats (\"catch and kill\"). And while often permitted, vertical integration (\"platform ...'); document.write('
Victory! German Mass Surveillance Abroad is Ruled Unconstitutional (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Tue, 19 May 2020 21:54:31 +0000
'); document.write('In a landmark decision, the German Constitutional Court has ruled that mass surveillance of telecommunications outside of Germany conducted on foreign nationals is unconstitutional. Thanks to the chief legal counsel, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), this a major victory for global civil liberties, but especially those that live and work in Europe. Many will now be protected after lackluster...'); document.write('
Balanced Copyright Rules Can Help Save Lives During the COVID 19 Crisis (Corynne McSherryKit Walsh)
'); document.write('Tue, 19 May 2020 15:12:24 +0000
'); document.write('Our friends and right to repair leaders at iFixit are can-do people. If they see a need they can fill, they step up to do it – even if that need is massive. And they’ve done precisely that with a new and user-friendly archive of repair information for mission-critical medical equipment, including easy-to-use repair guides that boil down key information. Thanks to this project, biomedical technicia...'); document.write('
Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Tue, 19 May 2020 01:09:54 +0000
'); document.write('EFF is proud to announce a new addition to our crack advisory board: security expert and scholar Tadayoshi Kohno. A professor at University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kohno is a researcher whose work focuses on identifying and fixing security flaws in emerging technologies, the Internet, and the cloud.Kohno examines and tests software and networks ...'); document.write('
The House Passed Legislation to Keep People Online Despite COVID-19, And the Senate Should Follow (Ernesto FalconKatharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Mon, 18 May 2020 23:29:53 +0000
'); document.write('The just-passed HEROES Act is a massive relief package designed to alleviate the harm of a massive crisis. In it is the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, which would make it easier for Americans affected by COVID-19 to stay connected to the Internet. As the Senate takes up this legislation, it should make Internet access a priority, not a bargaining chip. The Details The Emergency Broadband Be...'); document.write('
House Legislation Guarantees Internet Access for Those Affected by COVID-19 (Ernesto FalconKatharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Wed, 13 May 2020 20:59:48 +0000
'); document.write('The House of Representatives has introduced new COVID-19 emergency response legislation to address the largest public health and economic calamity the United States has faced in generations. Like the crisis it is meant to address, the bill is massive. One provision deserves particular attention: guaranteeing free Internet access if you have been economically harmed by COVID-19 (as originally envis...'); document.write('
Governments Shouldn’t Use “Centralized” Proximity Tracking Technology (Bennett CyphersGennie Gebhart)
'); document.write('Tue, 12 May 2020 22:10:35 +0000
'); document.write('Companies and governments across the world are building and deploying a dizzying number of systems and apps to fight COVID-19. Many groups have converged on using Bluetooth-assisted proximity tracking for the purpose of exposure notification. Even so, there are many ways to approach the problem, and dozens of proposals have emerged. One way to categorize them is based on how much trust each propos...'); document.write('
Court Upholds Public Right of Access to Court Documents (Corynne McSherryMonica Price)
'); document.write('Tue, 12 May 2020 18:43:55 +0000
'); document.write('A core part of EFF’s mission is transparency and access to information, because we know that in a nation bound by the rule of law, the public must have the ability to know the law and how it is being applied. That’s why the default rule is that the public must have full access to court records—even if those records contain unsavory details. Any departure from that rule must be narrow and well-just...'); document.write('
The Santa Clara Principles During COVID-19: More Important Than Ever (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Mon, 11 May 2020 11:38:35 +0000
'); document.write('This blog post with co-authored with Spandana Singh of New America\'s Open Technology Institute, a Santa Clara Principles partner. As COVID-19 has spread around the world and online platforms have scrambled to adjust their operations and workforces to a new reality, company commitments to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation have fallen by the wayside....'); document.write('
Understandable But Nonetheless Troubling: Facebook\'s Ban On In-Person Events (David Greene)
'); document.write('Mon, 11 May 2020 11:30:16 +0000
'); document.write('We\'re closely watching how Facebook enforces its newly-announced policy that limits speech by users who are organizing public protests. This policy is deserving of special attention since it effects free expression on two levels: the organization of the protest itself, and the speech about it. This new policy adds to Facebook’s overall content moderation burden at a time when the company is alread...'); document.write('
The Patent Office Is “Adjusting” to a Supreme Court Ruling by Ignoring It (Alex Moss)
'); document.write('Thu, 07 May 2020 20:08:43 +0000
'); document.write('In 2014, the Supreme Court decided the landmark Alice v. CLS Bank case. The Court held generic computers, performing generic computer functions, can’t make something eligible for patent protection. That shouldn’t be controversial, but it took Alice to make this important limitation on patent-eligibility crystal clear. Last year, the Patent Office decided to work around that decision, so that the d...'); document.write('
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability: The ‘One Weird Antitrust Trick’ That Defined Computing (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Thu, 07 May 2020 00:13:15 +0000
'); document.write('The Unix operating system was created at Bell Labs in 1969. Today, it rules the world. Both Android and iOS are flavors of Unix. So is MacOS. So is GNU/Linux in all its flavors, like Ubuntu and Debian. So is Chrome OS. Virtually every \"smart\" gadget you own is running some flavor of Unix, from the no-name programmable Christmas lights you put up in December to the smart light-bulb and smart-speake...'); document.write('
Second Paraguay Who Defends Your Data? Report: ISPs Still Have a Long Way Towards Public Commitments to Privacy and Transparency (Veridiana Alimonti)
'); document.write('Wed, 06 May 2020 18:40:08 +0000
'); document.write('Keeping track of ISPs’ commitments to their users, today Paraguay’s leading digital rights organization TEDIC is launching its second edition of ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?), a report in collaboration with EFF. Transparent practices and firm privacy commitments are particularly crucial right now. During times of crisis and emergency, companies must, more than ever, show that...'); document.write('
Cryptoparty Ann Arbor: A Case Study in Grassroots Activism (Lewis Gittens)
'); document.write('Wed, 06 May 2020 15:27:02 +0000
'); document.write('Grassroots activism, in its many forms, allows a community to mobilize around a shared set of ideals and creates an environment whereby participants can share information and resources to help facilitate the advancement of their common aims. The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations, unified by a commitment to upholding the principles of t...'); document.write('
Using Drones to Fight COVID-19 is the Slipperiest of All Slopes (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 May 2020 22:43:02 +0000
'); document.write('As governments search in vain for a technological silver bullet that will contain COVID-19 and allow people to safely leave their homes, officials are increasingly turning to drones. Some have floated using them to enforce social distancing, break up or monitor places where gatherings of people are occurring, identify infected people with supposed “fever detecting” thermal imaging, or even assist ...'); document.write('
California’s Lawmakers Must Enact Privacy Rules to Advance COVID-19 Efforts (Hayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 May 2020 20:27:45 +0000
'); document.write('EFF strongly backs calls, including from California Senate Judiciary Chair Hannah-Beth Jackson, for Governor Gavin Newsom to ensure that his response to this crisis respects Californians’ constitutional right to privacy. We urge the California legislature and Governor Newsom to pass measures that would protect our privacy now, in the aftermath of this crisis, and beyond. As a national leader in pr...'); document.write('
Courts Issue Rulings in Two Cases Challenging Law Enforcement Searches of License Plate Databases (Jennifer Lynch)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 May 2020 19:53:01 +0000
'); document.write('This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in United States v. Yang, a case challenging the search of an automated license plate reader database under the Fourth Amendment. Although the court, citing EFF’s amicus brief, recognized ALPRs capture massive amounts of data on Americans across the country, it decided not to reach the search issue. Instead it held that because Yang w...'); document.write('