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EFF\'s Deeplinks Blog: Noteworthy news from around the internet

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So-called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:56:51 +0000
'); document.write('Imagine this scenario: You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you provide your license and registration, the officer catches you off guard by asking: “Since you’ve got nothing to hide, you don’t mind unlocking your phone for me, do you?” Of course, you don’t want the officer to copy or rummage through all the private information on your phone. But they’...'); document.write('
It’s Business As Usual At WhatsApp (Gennie Gebhart)
'); document.write('Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:44:33 +0000
'); document.write('WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using the app. At first users were required to agree by February 8th, but after widespread controversy WhatsApp has announced it will delay that date to May 15. The good news is that, overall, this update does not make any extreme changes to how WhatsApp shar...'); document.write('
EFF Welcomes Fourth Amendment Defender Jumana Musa to Advisory Board (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:55:33 +0000
'); document.write('Our Fourth Amendment rights are under attack in the digital age, and EFF is proud to announce that human rights attorney and racial justice activist Jumana Musa has joined our advisory board, bringing great expertise to our fight defending users’ privacy rights.Musa is Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), where she oversees initia...'); document.write('
Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack (Jason Kelley)
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'); document.write('After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. But we object to one method reportedly being used to determine who was involved: law...'); document.write('
Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack (Jillian C. YorkCorynne McSherryDanny O'Brien)
'); document.write('Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:22 +0000
'); document.write('Last week, following riots that saw supporters of President Trump breach and sack parts of the Capitol building, Facebook and Twitter made the decision to give the president the boot. That was notable enough, given that both companies had previously treated the president, like other political leaders, as largely exempt from content moderation rules. Many of the president’s followers responded by m...'); document.write('
The FCC and States Must Ban Digital Redlining (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:22:45 +0000
'); document.write('The rollout of fiber broadband will never make it to many communities in the US. That’s because large, national ISPs are currently laying fiber primarily focused on high-income users to the detriment of the rest of their users. The absence of regulators has created a situation where wealthy end users are getting fiber, but predominantly low-income users are not being transitioned off legacy infras...'); document.write('
The Government Has All of the Powers It Needs to Find and Prosecute Those Responsible for the Crimes on Capitol Hill This Week (Matthew GuarigliaAaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:54:12 +0000
'); document.write('Perpetrators of the horrific events that took place at the Capitol on January 6 had a clear goal: to undermine the legitimate operations of government, to disrupt the peaceful transition of power, and to intimidate, hurt, and possibly kill those political leaders that disagree with their worldview. These are all crimes that can and and should be investigated by law enforcement. Yet history provid...'); document.write('
YouTube and TikTok Put Human Rights In Jeopardy in Turkey (Katitza RodriguezHilal Temel)
'); document.write('Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:25:09 +0000
'); document.write('Democracy in Turkey is in a deep crisis. Its ruling party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, systematically silences marginalized voices, shuts down dissident TV channels, sentences journalists, and disregards the European Court of Human Rights decisions. As we wrote in November, in this oppressive atmosphere, Turkey’s new Social Media Law has doubled down on previous online censorship measures by requ...'); document.write('
California City’s Effort to Punish Journalists For Publishing Documents Widely Available Online is Dangerous and Chilling, EFF Brief Argues (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:49:47 +0000
'); document.write('As part of their jobs, journalists routinely dig through government websites to find newsworthy documents and share them with the broader public. Journalists and Internet users understand that publicly available information on government websites is not secret and that, if government officials want to protect information from being disclosed online, they shouldn’t publicly post it on the Internet....'); document.write('
ACLU, EFF, and Tarver Law Offices Urge Supreme Court to Protect Against Forced Disclosure of Phone Passwords to Law Enforcement (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:41:54 +0000
'); document.write('Does the Fifth Amendment Protect You from Revealing Your Passwords to Police?Washington, D.C. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with New Jersey-based Tarver Law Offices, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination extends to the digital age by prohibiting law enforcement from for...'); document.write('
EFF\'s Response to Social Media Companies\' Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:42:15 +0000
'); document.write('Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who endured many hours of lockdown and reconvened to fulfill their constitutional duties. Th...'); document.write('
Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:25:59 +0000
'); document.write('The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Instead, a robot snitch that looks like a rolling trash can is programmed to decide whether a person looks suspicious—and then call the human police on them. Police robots may not be able to hurt people li...'); document.write('
Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability (Nathan Sheard)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:53:35 +0000
'); document.write('Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015\'s Senate Bill 741 (Cal. Govt. Code § 53166). Judge Bradley\'s order brought positive closure to a battle that began last March when Electronic Frontier Alliance mem...'); document.write('
COVID-19 and Surveillance Tech: Year in Review 2020 (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:08:13 +0000
'); document.write('Location tracking apps. Spyware to enforce quarantine. Immunity passports. Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. But heavy-handed tactics like these undercut public trust in government, precisely when trust is needed most. They also invade our privacy and chill our free speech. And all too often, surveillance tec...'); document.write('
EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing For More Financial Surveillance (Hayley TsukayamaMarta Belcher)
'); document.write('Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:16:56 +0000
'); document.write('Today, EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments, financial records can be deeply personal and revealing, containing a trove of sensitive information about people’s personal lives, beliefs, and affiliations. Regulations rega...'); document.write('
EFF Statement on British Court’s Rejection of Trump Administration’s Extradition Request for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange (rainey Reitman)
'); document.write('Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:58:53 +0000
'); document.write('Today, a British judge denied the Trump Administration’s extradition request for Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange, who is facing charges in the United States under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The judge largely confirmed the charges against him, but ultimately determined that the United States’ extreme procedures for confinement that would be applied to Mr. Assange would ...'); document.write('
Video Hearing Tuesday: ACLU, EFF Urge Court to Require Warrants for Border Searches of Digital Devices (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:42:04 +0000
'); document.write('Appeals Court Should Uphold Fourth Amendment Rights for International TravelersBoston – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the ACLU of Massachusetts will urge an appeals court on Tuesday to require warrants for the government to search electronic devices at U.S. airports and other ports of entry—ensuring that the Fourth Amendment protects trave...'); document.write('
A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review (Cara GaglianoKatharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:11:09 +0000
'); document.write('Here at EFF, we take particular notice of the way that intellectual property law leads to expression being removed from the Internet. We document the worst examples in our Takedown Hall of Shame. Some, we use to explain more complex ideas. And in other cases, we offer our help. In terms of takedowns, 2020 prefaced the year to come with a January story from New York University School of Law. The la...'); document.write('
Banning Government Use of Face Recognition Technology: 2020 Year in Review (Nathan Sheard)
'); document.write('Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:09:17 +0000
'); document.write('If there was any question about the gravity of problems with police use of face surveillance technology, 2020 wasted no time in proving them dangerously real. Thankfully, from Oregon to Massachusetts, local lawmakers responded by banning their local governments\' use. The Alarm On January 9, after first calling and threatening to arrest him at work, Detroit police officers traveled to nearby Farm...'); document.write('
DNS, DoH, and ODoH, Oh My: Year-in-Review 2020 (Bill Budington)
'); document.write('Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:05:02 +0000
'); document.write('Government knowledge of what sites activists have visited can put them at risk of serious injury, arrest, or even death. This makes it a vitally important priority to secure DNS. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a protocol that encrypts the Domain Name System (DNS) by performing lookups over the secure HTTPS protocol. DNS translates human-readable domain names (such as eff.org) into machine-routable IP add...'); document.write('
Defending Your Rights in Every Reality: Year in Review 2020 (Katitza RodriguezKurt Opsahl)
'); document.write('Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:47:12 +0000
'); document.write('Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies (VR/AR) are rapidly maturing and becoming more prevalent to a wider audience, especially as the pandemic drives more people to virtual activities. This technology provides the promise to entertain and educate, to connect and enhance our lives, and even to help advocate for our rights. But it also raises the risk of eroding them online. The headset...'); document.write('
Questions Remain About Pretrial Risk-Assessment Algorithms: Year in Review 2020 (Matthew GuarigliaHayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:03:05 +0000
'); document.write('Californians in November voted to repeal a 2018 law that would have ended cash bail and replaced it with a digital pretrial risk assessment tool that dictates whether a person can be released as they await their trial. By voting No on Proposition 25, Californians voted to keep the cash bail system, and not replace it with automated pretrial risk assessments. EFF did not have a position on the ball...'); document.write('
Litigation Against Mass NSA Surveillance: Year in Review 2020 (Cindy Cohn)
'); document.write('Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:02:09 +0000
'); document.write('EFF takes on fights for the long run, and some of our longest running legal fights are focused on bringing the National Security Agency within the rule of law, and batting back the arguments that the state secrets privilege should insulate the government from accountability for spying. EFF started these cases in 2006 with Hepting v. AT&T. That’s 7 years before Mr. Snowden provided us (and the ...'); document.write('
Fighting Abusive Patent Litigation During a Year of Health Crisis: 2020 Year In Review (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:40:01 +0000
'); document.write('The coronavirus dominated the news cycles, and our personal lives, in 2020. Scientists around the world raced forward to create a vaccine. Alongside that massive effort to create a critical new invention, we saw a renewed debate about patents and their role in helping, or hindering, innovation. At EFF, we’ve been the watchdog for years when patent owners abuse their monopolies. Unfortunately but...'); document.write('
Competitive Compatibility: Year in Review 2020 (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:28:00 +0000
'); document.write('2020 saw governments on three continents take action against the dominance of the biggest tech platforms, with a flurry of pro-competition rules, investigations and lawsuits. As exciting as this is, it\'s just the beginning. Antitrust enforcement is often a matter of years or even decades, and if history is any judge, dominant companies will seek to avert precedent-setting judgments (which might le...'); document.write('
EFF’s Work in State Legislatures: Year In Review 2020 (Hayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:27:04 +0000
'); document.write('EFF works in state legislatures across the country to fight for your civil liberties. This year, the pandemic upended the priorities and plans of every statehouse. But, with your support, EFF was able to quickly respond to surveillance threats, defend privacy, and counter the ways the pandemic made matters worse. Here are some highlights of our work—both in California and beyond. Fighting Governm...'); document.write('
Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review 2020 (Lindsay OliverJacob Hoffman-Andrews)
'); document.write('Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:45:28 +0000
'); document.write('As students were sent home from school in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools followed them home with invasive surveillance technology. This trend, spurred by the surge in remote learning, was an opportunistic move by tech companies and schools already in a race to control students through technology. With millions of students studying from home to stay safe from COVID-19, new thr...'); document.write('
Section 215 Expired: Year in Review 2020 (India McKinney)
'); document.write('Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:41:27 +0000
'); document.write('On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In the week before the law expired, the House of Repr...'); document.write('
EFF Members Rise Up: 2020 Year in Review (Christian RomeroAaron Jue)
'); document.write('Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:34:00 +0000
'); document.write('These days it\'s easy to feel adrift from the people in your life. At times, physical distance alongside social and political unrest seems like a never-ending rising tide. It can feel overwhelming. We have felt it here at EFF, but thankfully during our 30th Anniversary, EFF\'s purpose has never been more clear. EFF\'s members have shown that even through the worst of times, we will still come togethe...'); document.write('
In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security With the “EARN IT” Act (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:25:24 +0000
'); document.write('One nice thing about democracy is that—at least in theory—we don’t need permission to speak freely and privately. We don’t have to prove that our speech meets the government’s criteria, online or offline. We don’t have to “earn” our rights to free speech or privacy. Times have changed. Today, some U.S. senators have come to the view that speech in the online world is an exceptional case, in which ...'); document.write('
What Comes Next for the Santa Clara Principles: 2020 in Review (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:58:53 +0000
'); document.write('For many years, we have urged platforms to operate with more transparency—both to the public and to their users—and to ensure that the people who use their services have the ability to appeal wrongful content moderation decisions. As such, in conjunction with several other organizations and academic experts, we launched the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moder...'); document.write('
Surveillance Self-Defense and Security Education: Year in Review 2020 (Lindsay Oliver)
'); document.write('Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:20:34 +0000
'); document.write('As the world rapidly changed in 2020, new threats arose to our digital security. The shift to online education and the wave of police brutality protests brought new avenues for surveillance, so EFF created new resources to help people protect themselves.EFF maintains a repository of self-help resources for fighting back against surveillance across a variety of different platforms, devices, and thr...'); document.write('
The U.S. Internet Is Being Starved of Its Potential: 2020 in Review (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:01:39 +0000
'); document.write('Over a year ago, EFF raised the desperate need for the United States to have a universal fiber infrastructure plan in order to ensure that all Americans can obtain access to 21st century communications technology. Since then, we’ve produced technical research showing why fiber is vastly superior to all the alternative last mile broadband options in terms of its future potential, published legal re...'); document.write('
EU and the Digital Services Act: 2020 Year in Review (Christoph SchmonCory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Sat, 26 Dec 2020 20:58:05 +0000
'); document.write('While 2019 saw the EU ramming through a disastrous Internet copyright rule that continues to reverberate through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), the most significant reform of Europe’s platform legislation the EU has undertaken in twenty years. It is an unparalleled opportunity to formulate a bold, evidence-based vision...'); document.write('
Snowden: \"We Can Fix a Broken System\" (Root User)
'); document.write('Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:21:46 +0000
'); document.write('Below is a message from whistleblower Edward Snowden. His revelations about secret surveillance programs opened the world’s eyes to a new level of government misconduct, and reinvigorated EFF’s continuing work in the courts and with lawmakers to end unlawful mass spying. EFF is grateful to Ed for his support in our court cases, and to people like you for sustaining EFF during our Year-End Challeng...'); document.write('
High Tech Police Surveillance of Protests and Activism: Year in Review 2020 (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:07:37 +0000
'); document.write('This summer’s Black-led protest movement against police violence was one of the largest political movements in the history of the United States--and with it, came a massive proliferation of government surveillance technology aimed at activists and demonstrators. EFF has been standing up for the right to protest without being surveilled for 30 years now, and this year was no different. As EFF Exec...'); document.write('
How COVID Changed Content Moderation: Year in Review 2020 (Gennie Gebhart)
'); document.write('Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:17:18 +0000
'); document.write('In a year that saw every facet of online life reshaped the coronavirus pandemic, online content moderation and platform censorship were no exception. After a successful Who Has Your Back? campaign in 2019 to encourage large platforms to adopt best practices and endorse the Santa Clara Principles, 2020 was poised to be a year of more progress toward transparency and accountability in content moder...'); document.write('
How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review (Elliot Harmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:55:13 +0000
'); document.write('If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss. Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—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 t...'); document.write('
2020 in Review (Cindy Cohn)
'); document.write('Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:49:17 +0000
'); document.write('“Now more than ever,” “in these uncertain times,” “unprecedented”—we’re sure you have seen these words repeated over and over in the last twelve months, including from us here at EFF. They are clichés because they are true. 2020 has been the year that lasted a whole decade. It almost seems appropriate that EFF turned 30 this year, a year of extreme highs and lows. A year where being able to get an...'); document.write('
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:20:20 +0000
'); document.write('One of EFF’s chief concerns about exam proctoring software—in addition to the fact that it subjects students to excessive surveillance—is the risk that it will incorrectly flag students for cheating, called “false positives.” This can be due either to the software’s technical failures or to its requirements that students have relatively new computers and access to near-broadband speeds. Last week,...'); document.write('
The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:10:47 +0000
'); document.write('As we feared, the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act”—the CASE Act—that we’ve been fighting in various forms for two years has been included in a \"must-pass\" spending bill. This new legislation means Internet users could face up to $30,000 in penalties for sharing a meme or making a video, with liability determined not by neutral judges but by biased bureaucrats. The CASE Act i...'); document.write('
Year-End Challenge for Online Rights (Aaron Jue)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:40:22 +0000
'); document.write('You weathered a year that pressed the limits of endurance. But thankfully, the more we leaned on technology to stay connected, the harder EFF members fought to protect privacy, security, and free expression. This collective mission is more meaningful than ever, and you can keep us going strong. If you donate to EFF before the end of 2020, you’ll help defend digital freedom for all—and you’ll also ...'); document.write('
This Disastrous Copyright Proposal Goes Straight to Our Naughty List (Katharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:02:38 +0000
'); document.write('Just yesterday we saw two wretched copyright bills-the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill -- slipped into law via a must-pass spending bill. But it seems some people in Congress were just getting started. Today, Senator Thom Tillis launched a \"discussion draft\" of the so-called Digital Copyright Act. But there\'s nothing to discuss: the bill, if passed, would absolutely devastate the Internet. We...'); document.write('
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company (Sophia CopeAndrew Crocker)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:56:05 +0000
'); document.write('EFF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of WhatsApp’s lawsuit against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group had breached its systems and enabled NSO Group’s government clients to hack into the mobile phones of approximately 1,400 users in April and May 2019. A federal judge allowed the case to move forward ...'); document.write('
The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance (Marta BelcherAaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Mon, 21 Dec 2020 23:15:50 +0000
'); document.write('One of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has been increasingly taking steps to undermine the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions and importing the widespread financial surveillance of the traditional banking system to cryptocurrencies. O...'); document.write('
The Slow-Motion Tragedy of Ola Bini\'s Trial (Danny O'Brien)
'); document.write('Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:10:10 +0000
'); document.write('EFF has been tracking the arrest, detention, and subsequent investigation of Ola Bini since its beginnings over 18 months ago. Bini, a Swedish-born open-source developer, was arrested in Ecuador\'s Quito Airport in a flurry of media attention in April 2019. He was held without trial for ten weeks while prosecutors seized and pored over his technology, his business, and his private communications, l...'); document.write('
Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses (Andrés Arrieta)
'); document.write('Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:40:31 +0000
'); document.write('Facebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of small businesses. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook to distract you from its poor track record of anticompetitive behavior and privacy issues as it tries to derail pro-privacy changes from Apple that are bad for Facebook’s business. Facebook’s campaign is targeting a new AppTrackingTransparency feature on iPhones ...'); document.write('
Victory! Federal Appeals Court Confirms FOIA Requests Requiring a Database Query are Allowed Under the Law (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:30:18 +0000
'); document.write('At a time when the federal government is collecting and creating massive amounts of digital data that can implicate people’s privacy and free speech rights, it is crucial that the public know what the government is doing with that information. A ruling from a federal appellate court earlier this month ensures that the Freedom of Information Act, one of the most important legal tools citizens and r...'); document.write('
A Decade After the Arab Spring, Platforms Have Turned Their Backs on Critical Voices in the Middle East and North Africa (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:51:16 +0000
'); document.write('Many in the U.S. have spent 2020 debating the problems of content moderation on social media platforms, misinformation and disinformation, and the perceived censorship of political views. But globally, this issue has been in the spotlight for a decade. This year is the tenth anniversary of what became known as the \"Arab Spring\", in which activists and citizens across the Middle East and North Afr...'); document.write('
Doxxing: Tips To Protect Yourself Online & How to Minimize Harm (Daly Barnett)
'); document.write('Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:24:59 +0000
'); document.write('“Doxxing” is an eerie, cyber-sounding term that gets thrown around more and more these days, but what exactly does it mean? Simply put, it’s when a person or other entity exposes information about you, publicly available or secret, for the purpose of causing harm. It might be information you intended to keep secret, like your personal address or legal name. Often it is publicly available data that...'); document.write('