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

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EU vs Big Tech: Leaked Enforcement Plans and the Dutch-French Counterproposal (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:08:18 +0000
'); document.write('At the end of September, multiple press outlets published leaked set of antimonopoly enforcement proposals proposed for the a new EU Digital Market Act , which EU officials say they will finalize this year. The proposals confront the stark fact that the Internet has been thoroughly dominated by a handful of giant, U.S.-based firms, which compete on a global stage with a few giant Chinese counterpa...'); document.write('
Why Open Access Is Necessary for Makers (Lindsay Oliver)
'); document.write('Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:39:22 +0000
'); document.write('This is an Open Access Week guest post by Jordan Bunker, prototype engineer and open access advocate. After the world went into lockdown for COVID-19, Makers were suddenly confined to their workshops. Rather than idly wait it out, many of them decided to put their tools and skills to use, developing low-cost, rapid production methods for much-needed PPE and DIY ventilators in an effort to address ...'); document.write('
EFF Files Comment Opposing the Department of Homeland Security\'s Massive Expansion of Biometric Surveillance (Saira HussainJennifer LynchNathaniel Sobel)
'); document.write('Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:34:26 +0000
'); document.write('EFF, joined by several leading civil liberties and immigrant rights organizations, recently filed a comment calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a proposed rule that would exponentially expand biometrics collection from both U.S. citizens and noncitizens who apply for immigration benefits and would allow DHS to mandate the collection of face data, iris scans, palm print...'); document.write('
Victory! EFF Wins Appeal for Access to Wiretap Application Records (Naomi Gilens)
'); document.write('Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:11:39 +0000
'); document.write('Imagine learning that you were wiretapped by law enforcement, but couldn’t get any information about why. That’s what happened to retired California Highway Patrol officer Miguel Guerrero, and EFF sued on his behalf to get more information about the surveillance. This week, a California appeals court ruled in his case that people who are targets of wiretaps are entitled to inspect the wiretap mate...'); document.write('
EFF Urges Vallejo’s Top Officials to End Unconstitutional Practice of Blocking Critics on Social Media (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:40:38 +0000
'); document.write('Elected Officials Can’t Block People Whose Views They DislikeSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told the City of Vallejo that its practice of blocking people and deleting comments on social media because it doesn\'t like their messages is illegal under the First Amendment, and demanded that it stop engaging in such viewpoint discrimination, unblock all members of the public, and...'); document.write('
Open Access Should Include Open Courts (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:51:02 +0000
'); document.write('It is a fundamental precept, at least in the United States, that the public should have access to the courts–including court records–and any departure from that rule must be narrow and well-justified. 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. But for most of our nation’s history, that right didn’t mean much if you didn’t hav...'); document.write('
Open Education and Artificial Scarcity in Hard Times (Rory Mir)
'); document.write('Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:44:45 +0000
'); document.write('The sudden move to remote education by universities this year has forced the inevitable: the move to an online education. While most universities won’t be fully remote, having course materials online was already becoming the norm before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this year it has become mandatory for millions of educators and students. As academia recovers from this crisis, and hopefully prepares ...'); document.write('
Peru’s Third Who Defends Your Data? Report: Stronger Commitments from ISPs, But Imbalances, and Gaps to Bridge. (Veridiana Alimonti)
'); document.write('Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:55:25 +0000
'); document.write('Hiperderecho, Peru’s leading digital rights organization, has launched today its third ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends you Data)--a report that seeks to hold telecom companies accountable for their users’ privacy. The new Peruvian edition shows improvements compared to 2019’s evaluation. Movistar and Claro commit to require a warrant for handing both users’ communications content and met...'); document.write('
Open Access Must Be the Rule, Not the Exception (Elliot Harmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:05:03 +0000
'); document.write('Not Just for COVID-19, But for the Next Crisis Too The COVID-19 pandemic demands that governments, scientific researchers, and industry work together to bring life-saving technology to the public regardless of who can afford it. But even as we take steps to make medical technology and treatments available to everyone, we shouldn’t forget that more crises will come after COVID-19. There will be fut...'); document.write('
EFF to Supreme Court: American Companies Complicit in Human Rights Abuses Abroad Should Be Held Accountable (Cindy CohnSophia Cope)
'); document.write('Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:45:15 +0000
'); document.write('For years EFF has been calling for U.S. companies that act as “repression’s little helpers” to be held accountable, and now we’re telling the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite all the ways that technology has been used as a force for good—connecting people around the world, giving voice to the less powerful, and facilitating knowledge sharing—technology has also been used as a force multiplier for repre...'); document.write('
EU Parliament Paves the Way for an Ambitious Internet Bill (Christoph Schmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000
'); document.write('The European Union has made the first step towards a significant overhaul of its core platform regulation, the e-Commerce Directive. In order to inspire the European Commission, which is currently preparing a proposal for a Digital Services Act Package, the EU Parliament has voted on three related Reports (IMCO, JURI, and LIBE reports), which address the legal responsibilities of platforms regard...'); document.write('
Members of Congress Join the Fight for Protest Surveillance Transparency (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:54:40 +0000
'); document.write('Three members of Congress have joined the fight for the right to protest by sending a letter to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to investigate federal surveillance against protesters. We commend these elected officials for doing what they can to help ensure our constitutional right to protest and for taking the interests and safety of protesters to heart. It often takes ye...'); document.write('
Video Hearing Wednesday: Advocacy Orgs Go to Court to Block Trump’s Retaliation Against Fact-Checking (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:31:20 +0000
'); document.write('Lawsuit Challenges Executive Order Pressuring Social Media Companies to Ignore President’s False ClaimsSan Francisco – On Wednesday, October 21 at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT, voter advocacy organizations will ask a district court to block an unconstitutional Executive Order that retaliates against online services for fact-checking President Trump’s false posts about voting and the upcoming election. Informat...'); document.write('
Pioneer Award Ceremony 2020: A Celebration of Communities (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:30:35 +0000
'); document.write('Last week, we celebrated the 29th Annual—and first ever online—Pioneer Award Ceremony, which EFF convenes for our digital heroes and the folks that help make the online world a better, safer, stronger, and more fun place. Like the many Pioneer Award Ceremonies before it, the all-online event was both an intimate party with friends, and a reminder of the critical digital rights work that’s being do...'); document.write('
Coinbase’s Transparency Report Is a Welcome First Step (Hayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:01:15 +0000
'); document.write('Coinbase has released its first transparency report, and we’re encouraged to see the company take this first step and commit to issuing future reports that go even further to provide transparency for their customers. Last month, we renewed a call for Coinbase—one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the country—to start releasing regular transparency reports that provide insight into how ma...'); document.write('
Augmented Reality Must Have Augmented Privacy (Katitza RodriguezKurt Opsahl)
'); document.write('Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:12:53 +0000
'); document.write('Imagine walking down the street, looking for a good cup of coffee. In the distance, a storefront glows in green through your smart glasses, indicating a well-reviewed cafe with a sterling public health score. You follow the holographic arrows to the crosswalk, as your wearables silently signal the self-driving cars to be sure they stop for your right of way. In the crowd ahead you recognize someon...'); document.write('
California Is Putting Together A Broadband Plan. We Have Thoughts. (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:20:40 +0000
'); document.write('Right now the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Broadband Council are collecting public comments to create the California Broadband Plan, per Governor Newsom’s Executive Order 73-20. The order’s purpose is to find a way to deliver 100 mbps-capable Internet connections to around 2 million Californians who lack access to at least one high-speed connection. These Californians ...'); document.write('
Latin American Governments Must Commit to Surveillance Transparency (Katitza RodriguezVeridiana Alimonti)
'); document.write('Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:34:23 +0000
'); document.write('This post is the second in a series about our new State of Communications Privacy Laws report, a set of questions and answers about privacy and data protection in eight Latin American countries and Spain. The series’ first post was “A Look-Back and Ahead on Data Protection in Latin America and Spain.” The reports cover Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, and Spain. ...'); document.write('
Education Groups Drop Their Lawsuit Against Public.Resource.Org, Give Up Their Quest to Paywall the Law (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:41:35 +0000
'); document.write('This week, open and equitable access to the law got a bit closer. For many years, EFF, along with co-counsel at Fenwick & West and attorney David Halperin, has defended Public.Resource.Org in its quest to improve public access to the law — including standards, like the National Electrical Code, that legislators and agencies have made into binding regulations. In two companion lawsuits, six sta...'); document.write('
San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein In SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras (Nathan Sheard)
'); document.write('Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0000
'); document.write('Black, white, or indigenous; well-resourced or indigent; San Francisco residents should be free to assemble and protest without fear of police surveillance technology or retribution. That should include Black-led protesters of San Francisco who took to the streets in solidarity and protest, understanding that though George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were not neighbors in the most literal sense, thei...'); document.write('
Thank You For Your Transparency Report, Here’s Everything That’s Missing (Svea WindwehrJillian C. York)
'); document.write('Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:51:21 +0000
'); document.write('Every major social media platform—from Facebook to Reddit, Instagram to YouTube—moderates and polices content shared by users. Platforms do so as a matter of self-interest, commercial or otherwise. But platforms also moderate user content in response to pressure from a variety of interest groups and/or governments. As a consequence, social media platforms have become the arbiters of speech onlin...'); document.write('
We Fight For the Users: An Appreciation of IETF\'s RFC 8890 (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:14:27 +0000
'); document.write('Here at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we have a guiding motto: \"I Fight For the Users.\" (We even put it on t-shirts from time to time!) We didn\'t pick that one by accident (nor merely because we dig the 1982 classic film \"Tron\"), but because it provides such a clear moral compass when we sit down to work every day. Should your boss be able to spy on you through your computer? Well, you\'re th...'); document.write('
EFF and ACLU Ask Ninth Circuit to Overturn Government’s Censorship of Twitter’s Transparency Report (Naomi Gilens)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:46:15 +0000
'); document.write('Citing national security concerns, the government is attempting to infringe on Twitter\'s First Amendment right to inform the public about secret government surveillance orders. For more than six years, Twitter has been fighting in court to share information about law enforcement orders it received in 2014. Now, Twitter has brought that fight to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. EFF, along with t...'); document.write('
Bar Applicants Deserve Better than a Remotely Proctored “Barpocalypse” (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:50:45 +0000
'); document.write('This week was the California Bar Exam, a grueling two-day test that determines whether or not a person can practice law in California. Despite the privacy and security risks remote proctoring apps present to users, the California Bar, as well as several other state bars throughout the country, are requiring that students use proctoring and surveillance app ExamSoft to protect the “integrity” of th...'); document.write('
Facebook’s Most Recent Transparency Report Demonstrates the Pitfalls of Automated Content Moderation (Svea WindwehrJillian C. York)
'); document.write('Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:17:31 +0000
'); document.write('In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many social media platforms shifted their content moderation policies to rely much more heavily on automated tools. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all ramped up their machine learning capabilities to review and identify flagged content in efforts to ensure the wellbeing of their content moderation teams and the privacy of their users. Most social media compa...'); document.write('
The Selective Prosecution of Julian Assange (rainey Reitman)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:32:15 +0000
'); document.write('As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws in order to punish those who provoke their ire. As we see in Assange’s case and in many others before this, computer crime laws are especially ripe for this form of politicization. The key evidence in...'); document.write('
California League of Cities Should Reject Misguided Section 230 Resolution (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:48:37 +0000
'); document.write('The past few months have seen plenty of attempts to undermine Section 230, the law that makes a free Internet possible. But now we’re seeing one from a surprising place: the California League of Cities. To be clear, the League of Cities, an association of city officials from around the state, doesn’t have the power to change Section 230 or any other federal law. But if Congress were to actually fo...'); document.write('
Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better (Andrés ArrietaBennett CyphersAlexei MiagkovDaly Barnett)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:02:00 +0000
'); document.write('Privacy Badger was created to protect users from pervasive non-consensual tracking, and to do so automatically, without relying on human-edited lists of known trackers. While our goals remain the same, our approach is changing. It is time for Privacy Badger to evolve. Thanks to disclosures from Google Security Team, we are changing the way Privacy Badger works by default in order to protect you be...'); document.write('
Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:46:52 +0000
'); document.write('Violating San Francisco’s Surveillance Technology Ordinance, SFPD Secretly Used Camera Network to Spy on People Protesting Police Killing of George FloydSan Francisco—Local activists sued San Francisco today over the city police department’s illegal use of a network of more than 400 non-city surveillance cameras to spy on them and thousands of others who protested as part of the Black-led movement...'); document.write('
Announcing Global Privacy Control in Privacy Badger (Bennett Cyphers)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000
'); document.write('Today, we’re announcing that the upcoming release of Privacy Badger will support the Global Privacy Control, or GPC, by default. GPC is a new specification that allows users to tell companies they\'d like to opt out of having their data shared or sold. By default, Privacy Badger will send the GPC signal to every company you interact with alongside the Do Not Track (DNT) signal. Like DNT, GPC is tra...'); document.write('
House Antitrust Report Is a Bold Prescription for Curing Big Tech’s Ills (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:30:20 +0000
'); document.write('The long-awaited report[pdf] by the House Judiciary Committee staff[1] on Big Tech’s monopoly power hits all the right notes—and just a few wrong ones. Following a year of hearings and research, the staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust found that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple all have either significant market power or outright monopoly power in a variety of markets. Many of the report’s r...'); document.write('
Orders from the Top: The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption (Danny O'Brien)
'); document.write('Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:49:05 +0000
'); document.write('The last few months have seen a steady stream of proposals, encouraged by the advocacy of the FBI and Department of Justice, to provide “lawful access” to end-to-end encrypted services in the United States. Now lobbying has moved from the U.S., where Congress has been largely paralyzed by the nation’s polarization problems, to the European Union—where advocates for anti-encryption laws hope to hav...'); document.write('
California Community Leaders Call on Governor to Help Get State Broadband Up to Speed (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:57:48 +0000
'); document.write('Gov. Gavin Newsom Should Convene a Special Session to Pass Universal Access Law Before End of YearSacramento - More than 60 California community leaders—including public officials, businesses, education advocates, and civil rights groups—have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Common Sense Media to call on California Governor Gavin Newsom to convene a special legislative session t...'); document.write('
Supreme Court Hearing in Oracle v Google: Will the High Court Fix the Federal Circuit\'s Mess? (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:37:18 +0000
'); document.write('On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the long-running case of Oracle v. Google. We’ll be following closely, and looking for signs that the Court will reverse the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decisions in this ground-breaking litigation. And then we’ll be waiting and hoping the Court will issue an opinion explaining that giving copyright protection to Application Programmi...'); document.write('
Come Back with a Warrant for my Virtual House (Kurt Opsahl)
'); document.write('Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:33:33 +0000
'); document.write('Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in your home can involve the creation of an intimate portrait of your private life. The VR/AR headsets can request audio and video of the inside of our house, telemetry about our movements, depth data and images that can build a highly accurate geometrical representation of your place, that can map exactly where that mug sits on your coffee table, all generat...'); document.write('
Judge Upends Vallejo’s Use of a Stingray (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:18:33 +0000
'); document.write('Cops in Vallejo have put their controversial cell-phone surveillance tool back in the box, after a judge released a tentative ruling (which the judge might or might not later finalize or amend) that they\'d acquired it in violation of state law. The case was brought by Oakland Privacy, the EFF Pioneer Award Winning organization and Electronic Frontiers Alliance member. They allege that the city o...'); document.write('
Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:27:39 +0000
'); document.write('The dangerous EARN IT Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, and now it’s been introduced in the House of Representatives. Take Action Tell Congress to Reject the Earn It Act We need your help to stop this anti-speech, anti-security bill. Email your elected officials in both chambers of Congress today and ask them to publicly oppose the EARN IT Act. The EARN IT Act would allow all 5...'); document.write('
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act Is an Unconstitutional Mess (Elliot Harmon)
'); document.write('Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:41:51 +0000
'); document.write('EFF is standing with a huge coalition of organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Online Content Policy Modernization Act (OCPMA, S. 4632). Introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the OCPMA is yet another of this year’s flood of misguided attacks on Internet speech (read bill [pdf]). The bill would make it harder for online platforms to take common-sense moderation measures like removing spa...'); document.write('
Vote for EFF on CREDO\'s October Ballot (Aaron Jue)
'); document.write('Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:35:25 +0000
'); document.write('Right now you can help EFF receive a portion of a $150,000 donation pool just by casting your vote! EFF is one of the three nonprofits featured in CREDO\'s giving group this month, so if you vote for EFF by October 31 you will direct a bigger piece of the donation pie toward protecting online freedom. Since its founding, CREDO\'s mobile, energy, long distance, and credit card services customers hav...'); document.write('
Broad Coalition Urges Court Not to Block California’s Net Neutrality Law (Karen GulloKit Walsh)
'); document.write('Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:25:12 +0000
'); document.write('After the federal government rolled back net neutrality protections for consumers in 2017, California stepped up and passed a bill that does what FCC wouldn’t: bar telecoms from blocking and throttling Internet content and imposing paid prioritization schemes. The law, SB 822, ensures that that all Californians have full access to all Internet content and services—at lower prices. Partnering with ...'); document.write('
Tell the Department of Homeland Security: Stop Collecting DNA and other Biometrics (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:25:24 +0000
'); document.write('Update (10/16/20): The comment window is now closed. EFF will be posting our response to the DHS in the days to come. Thank you to everyone who made your voice heard against this unjust rule change.) We need your help. On September 11, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intention to significantly expand both the number of people required to submit biometrics during routi...'); document.write('
California Community Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Broadband Access—Add Your Organization to the List (Hayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:13:12 +0000
'); document.write('More than fifty California organizations, businesses, and public officials—including the AARP of California, the San Francisco Tech Council, the California Center for Rural Policy, the Khan Academy, and a number of California cities and counties—join Common Sense Kids Action and EFF in urging Governor Gavin Newsom to call the legislature back into a special session to address the state’s digital d...'); document.write('
Bust \'Em All: Let\'s De-Monopolize Tech, Telecoms AND Entertainment (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:22:21 +0000
'); document.write('The early 1980s were a period of tremendous foment and excitement for tech. In the four years between 1980 and 1984, Americans met: The Vic-20 (1980); The Commodore 64 (1981); The IBM PC (1982); and The PC-compatible ROM (1984) But no matter how exciting things were in Silicon Valley during those years, even more seismic changes were afoot in Washington, D.C., where a jurist named Robert Bork fo...'); document.write('
Introducing “YAYA”, a New Threat Hunting Tool From EFF Threat Lab (Cooper Quintin)
'); document.write('Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:03:03 +0000
'); document.write('At the EFF Threat Lab we spend a lot of time hunting for malware that targets vulnerable populations, but we also spend time trying to classify malware samples that we have come across. One of the tools we use for this is YARA. YARA is described as “The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife for Malware Researchers.” Put simply, YARA is a program that lets you create descriptions of malware (YARA rules) and...'); document.write('
The Government’s Antitrust Suit Against Google: Go Big and Do It Right (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:57:55 +0000
'); document.write('U.S. antitrust enforcers are reported to be crafting a lawsuit against Google (and its parent company, Alphabet). The Department of Justice and a large coalition of state attorneys general are meeting this week and could file suit very soon. While it will reportedly focus on Google’s dominance in online advertising and search, the suit could encompass many more facets of Google’s conduct, includin...'); document.write('
Students Are Pushing Back Against Proctoring Surveillance Apps (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:40:26 +0000
'); document.write('Special thanks to legal intern Tracy Zhang, who was lead author of this post. Privacy groups aren’t the only ones raising the alarm about the dangers of invasive proctoring apps. Through dozens of petitions across the country, and the globe, students too are pushing school administrators and teachers to consider the risks these apps create. Schools must take note of this level of organized activ...'); document.write('
How Police Fund Surveillance Technology is Part of the Problem (Matthew GuarigliaDave Maass)
'); document.write('Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:08:46 +0000
'); document.write('Law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local level are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on surveillance technology in order to track, locate, watch, and listen to people in the United States, often targeting dissidents, immigrants, and people of color. EFF has written tirelessly about the harm surveillance causes communities and its effect is well documented. What is le...'); document.write('
The Time Has Come to End the PACER Paywall (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:19:39 +0000
'); document.write('In a nation ruled by law, access to public court records is essential to democratic accountability. Thanks to the Internet and other technological innovations, that access should be broader and easier than ever. The PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system could and should play a crucial role in fulfilling that need. Instead, it operates as an economic barrier, imposing fees for se...'); document.write('
EFF, CDT Sue Government To Obtain Records About Federal Agencies Pulling Advertising From Platforms (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:56:17 +0000
'); document.write('Reducing Federal Dollars Based on Recipients’ Perceived Viewpoints Violates First AmendmentWashington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the government to obtain records showing whether federal agencies have cut their advertising on social media as part of President Trump’s...'); document.write('
Exposing Your Face Isn\'t a More Hygienic Way to Pay (Jon Callas)
'); document.write('Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:38:41 +0000
'); document.write('A company called PopID has created an identity-management system that uses face recognition. Their first use case is as a system for in-store, point of sale payments using face recognition as authorization for payment. They are promoting it as a tool for restaurants, claiming that it is pandemic-friendly because it is contactless. Nonetheless, the PopID payment system is less secure than alternati...'); document.write('