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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml" target="frame0">Deeplinks</a><br /><span class="rss-item">EFF\'s Deeplinks Blog: Noteworthy news from around the internet</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/final-weekend-get-eff-30th-anniversary-challenge-coin" target="frame0">Final Weekend for EFF\'s 30th Anniversary Challenge Coin</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Aaron Jue)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:34:26 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('To celebrate the Electronic Frontier Foundation\'s 30th anniversary, both new and upgrading recurring supporters can claim a first-of-its-kind EFF challenge coin as a token of thanks. These coins will be individually numbered for each supporter and are only available until Sunday night, August 9, 2020 at 11:59 pm PT. Challenge coins follow a long tradition of offering a symbol of kinship and respec...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/eff-joins-splc-letter-georgia-high-school-expressing-concern-over-restriction" target="frame0">EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia High School Expressing Concern Over Restriction to Students’ Free Speech</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(David Greene)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:58:16 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The First Amendment includes the right to use technology to create and preserve images, and otherwise collect information, of newsworthy events. This issue has arisen in numerous contexts, including the right to record the police performing police-work, and we have filed several amicus briefs that have helped firmly establish that right in the law. Consistent with this, we joined a letter protesti...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/victory-eff-defends-publics-right-access-court-records-about-patent-ownership" target="frame0">Victory! EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Alex Moss)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:43:13 +0000</span><br />');
document.write(' The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is especially great in patent cases, where parties on opposite sides of a case often agree with each other to k...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/faq-why-brazils-plan-mandate-traceability-private-messaging-apps-will-break-users" target="frame0">FAQ: Why Brazil’s Plan to Mandate Traceability in Private Messaging Apps Will Break User’s Expectation of Privacy and Security</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Katitza RodriguezSeth Schoen)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:29:01 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Despite widespread complaints about its effects on human rights, the Brazilian Senate has fast-tracked the approval of “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. The bill lacked the necessarily broad and intense social participation that characterized the development of the 2014 Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet and is now in the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber has been hold...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-blockchain-credentials-covid-19-test-results-entry-public-spaces" target="frame0">No to Blockchain Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results for Entry to Public Spaces</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Adam Schwartz)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:42:57 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('An ill-conceived California bill endorses a blockchain-based system that would turn COVID-19 test results into permanent records that could be used to grant access to public places. EFF and ACLU oppose California A.B. 2004. The newest version of this bill would create a pilot program for using “verifiable health credentials” to report COVID-19 and other medical test results. The bill defines such ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/californians-sacramento-needs-your-voice-states-broadband-future" target="frame0">Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State\'s Broadband Future</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Ernesto Falcon)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:25:46 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Two bills before the California legislature in its final month of session, S.B. 1130 and A.B. 570, chart very different courses for the state’s broadband infrastructure program. In considering them, the state faces a  fundamental question about how to invest its money: in modern, high-capacity fiber networks, or slow wireless and DSL copper networks. EFF has researched—and devoted substantial leg...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/digital-rights-ground-view-effs-intake-desk" target="frame0">Digital Rights On the Ground: The View from EFF’s Intake Desk</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Haley Pedersen)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 05 Aug 2020 16:45:23 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('If you’re familiar with EFF, you know that we do our best to defend and promote digital civil liberties through a powerful blend of impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, technological development, and more. But you may not know that EFF also provides a legal intake and referral service. As EFF’s Intake Coordinator, I field thousands of requests for assistance every year, which ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/sen-merkley-leads-biometric-privacy" target="frame0">Sen. Merkley Leads on Biometric Privacy</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Adam Schwartz)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:01:31 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Businesses across the world are harvesting and monetizing our biometrics without our knowledge or consent. For example, Clearview AI extracted faceprints from three billion people, and now it sells face-matching services to police departments. Likewise, retail stores use face surveillance to identify customers they deem more likely than others to engage in shoplifting, often based on error-prone, ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" target="frame0">TikTok Ban: A Seed of Genuine Security Concern Wrapped in a Thick Layer of Censorship</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Eva GalperinDavid GreeneKurt Opsahl)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:46:57 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('It is ironic that, while purporting to protect America from China’s authoritarian government, President Trump is threatening to ban the TikTok app. Censorship of both speech and social media applications, after all, is one of the hallmarks of the Chinese Internet strategy.  While there is significant cause for concern with TikTok’s security, privacy, and its relationship with the Chinese governmen...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/supporting-digital-freedom-summer-security-conferences" target="frame0">Supporting Digital Freedom at the (Virtual) Summer Security Conferences</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Aaron Jue)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:42:18 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('During a typical year, EFF staff members would be headed to Las Vegas to present our latest work to the world and ensure legal support for computer security researchers at the long-running hacker events BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON. These summer security conferences are a natural opportunity for the curious and the professional to geek out on tech. Hackers, tinkerers, and reverse engineers wer...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/eff-and-aclu-tell-federal-court-forensic-software-source-code-must-be-disclosed" target="frame0">EFF and ACLU Tell Federal Court that Forensic Software Source Code Must Be Disclosed</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Hannah ZhaoKit Walsh)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:36:27 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Can secret software be used to generate key evidence against a criminal defendant? In an amicus filed ten days ago with the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, EFF and the ACLU of Pennsylvania explain that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. Our ami...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/what-really-does-and-doesnt-work-fair-use-dmca" target="frame0">What Really Does and Doesn’t Work for Fair Use in the DMCA</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Katharine TrendacostaCorynne McSherry)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:06:00 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('On July 28, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held another in its year-long series of hearings on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The topic of this hearing was “How Does the DMCA Contemplate Limitations and Exceptions Like Fair Use?” We’re glad Congress is asking the question. Without fair use, much of our common culture would be inaccessible, cordoned off by copyright. Fair use ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/historic-opinion-third-circuit-protects-public-school-students-campus-social-media" target="frame0">In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’ Off-Campus Social Media Speech</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Sophia Cope)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:55:48 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an historic opinion in B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, upholding the free speech rights of public school students. The court adopted the position EFF urged in our amicus brief that the First Amendment prohibits disciplining public school students for off-campus social media speech. B.L. was a high school student who had failed to make th...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/pact-act-not-solution-problem-harmful-online-content" target="frame0">The PACT Act Is Not The Solution To The Problem Of Harmful Online Content</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Sophia CopeAaron Mackey)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:38:45 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The Senate Commerce Committee’s Tuesday hearing on the PACT Act and Section 230 was a refreshingly substantive bipartisan discussion about the thorny issues related to how online platforms moderate user content, and to what extent these companies should be held liable for harmful user content. The hearing brought into focus several real and significant problems that Congress should continue to con...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/university-app-mandates-are-wrong-call" target="frame0">University App Mandates Are The Wrong Call</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Gennie GebhartJacob Hoffman-AndrewsAndrew Crocker)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:22:50 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('As students, parents, and schools prepare the new school year, universities are considering ways to make returning to campus safer. Some are considering and even mandating that students install COVID-related technology on their personal devices, but this is the wrong call. Exposure notification apps, quarantine enforcement programs, and similar new technologies are untested and unproven, and manda...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legal-deep-dive-mexicos-disastrous-new-copyright-law" target="frame0">A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Kit Walsh)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:55:52 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign policy). This law closely resembles the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in the US 1998, with a few differences that make it much, much worse. We’ll start with a quick overview, and then dig deeper. “Anti...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-undermines-mexicos-national-sovereignty-continuing" target="frame0">Mexico\'s New Copyright Law Undermines Mexico\'s National Sovereignty, Continuing Generations of Unfair \"Fair Trade Deals\" Between the USA and Latin America</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Cory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:26:17 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Earlier this month, Mexico\'s Congress hastily imported most of the US copyright system into Mexican law, in a dangerous and ill-considered act. But neither this action nor its consequences occurred in a vacuum: rather, it was a consequence of Donald Trump\'s US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the successor to NAFTA. Trade agreements are billed as creating level playing fields between nations to th...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/disability-education-repair-and-health-how-mexicos-copyright-law-hurts-self" target="frame0">Disability, Education, Repair and Health: How Mexico\'s Copyright Law Hurts Self-Determination in the Internet Age</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Cory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:25:57 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Mexico\'s new copyright law was rushed through Congress without adequate debate or consultation, and that\'s a problem, because the law -- a wholesale copy of the US copyright system -- creates unique risks to the human rights of the Mexican people, and the commercial fortunes of Mexican businesses and workers. The Mexican law contains three troubling provisions: I. Copyright filters: these automate...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/turkeys-new-internet-law-worst-version-germanys-netzdg-yet" target="frame0">Turkey\'s New Internet Law Is the Worst Version of Germany\'s NetzDG Yet</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Svea WindwehrJillian C. York)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:52:58 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Update: This post has been corrected as of August 1, 2020 to accurately reflect the details of the NetzDG. For years, free speech and press freedoms have been under attack in Turkey. The country has the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer of journalists and has in recent years been cracking down on online speech. Now, a new law, passed by the Turkish Parliament on the 29th of July, int...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/court-denies-eff-aclu-effort-unseal-ruling-rejecting-doj-effort-break-encryption" target="frame0">Court Denies EFF, ACLU Effort to Unseal Ruling Rejecting DOJ Effort to Break Encryption</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Aaron Mackey)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:42:27 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('A federal appeals court last week refused to unseal a court order that reportedly stopped the Justice Department from forcing Facebook to break the encryption it offers to users of its Messenger application. The unpublished decision ends an effort by EFF, ACLU, and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn to unseal the 2018 ruling from a Fresno, California federal court. The ruling denied ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/why-eff-doesnt-support-cal-prop-24" target="frame0">Why EFF Doesn’t Support California Proposition 24</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Lee TienAdam SchwartzHayley Tsukayama)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:07:38 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('This November, Californians will be called upon to vote on a ballot initiative called the California Privacy Rights Act, or Proposition 24. EFF does not support it; nor does EFF oppose it. EFF works across the country to enact and defend laws that empower technology users to control how businesses process their personal information. The best consumer data privacy laws require businesses to get con...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/when-us-patent-office-wont-do-its-job-congress-should-step" target="frame0">When the U.S. Patent Office Won’t Do Its Job, Congress Should Step In</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Joe Mullin)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:21:09 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('When people get sued by patent trolls, they can fight back in one of two places: a U.S. district court or the Patent and Trademark Office. But the Patent Office is putting its thumb on the scale again in favor of patent owners and against technology users. This time, the Office is relying on specious legal arguments to shut down patent reviews at the Patent and Trademark Appeals Board (PTAB). The ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-cybersecurity-and-human-rights" target="frame0">Mexico\'s New Copyright Law: Cybersecurity and Human Rights</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Cory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:47:30 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('This month, Mexico rushed through a new, expansive copyright law without adequate debate or consultation, and as a result, it adopted a national rule that is absolutely unfit for purpose, with grave implications for human rights and cybersecurity. The new law was passed as part of the country\'s obligations under Donald Trump\'s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and it imports the US co...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/legislative-path-interoperable-internet" target="frame0">A Legislative Path to an Interoperable Internet</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Bennett CyphersCory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:59:42 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone lines provided interoperable communication ports, and scientists found a way to send data, rather tha...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/california-legislator-introduces-anti-rural-fiber-legislation-prioritizes-dsl" target="frame0">California Legislator Introduces Anti-Rural Fiber Legislation That Prioritizes DSL</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Ernesto Falcon)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:48:31 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Frontier’s bankruptcy has serious consequences for Americans, including 2 million Californians, who are stuck with their deteriorating DSL monopoly. After deciding for years to never upgrade their networks to fiber—despite the fact that, according to their own bankruptcy filing, they could have profitably upgraded 3 million customers to gigabit fiber already—the pyramid scheme of milking dying DSL...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/how-mexicos-new-copyright-law-crushes-free-expression" target="frame0">How Mexico\'s New Copyright Law Crushes Free Expression</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Cory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:32:31 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('When Mexico\'s Congress rushed through a new copyright law as part of its adoption of Donald Trump\'s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), it largely copy-pasted the US copyright statute, with some modifications that made the law even worse for human rights. The result is a legal regime that has all the deficits of the US system, and some new defects that are strictly hecho en Mexico, to t...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/san-francisco-police-accessed-business-district-camera-network-spy-protestors" target="frame0">San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Dave MaassMatthew Guariglia)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:15:30 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) conducted mass surveillance of protesters at the end of May and in early June using a downtown business district\'s camera network, according to new records obtained by EFF. The records show that SFPD received real-time live access to hundreds of cameras as well as a \"data dump\" of camera footage amid the ongoing demonstrations against police violence. The...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-trump-appointees-removal-open-technology-fund-leadership-unlawfu" target="frame0">EFF to Court: Trump Appointee’s Removal of Open Technology Fund Leadership Is Unlawful</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Karen Gullo)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:26:33 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet FreedomSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined a group of 17 leading U.S.-based Internet freedom organizations in telling a federal appeals court that Trump administration appointee Michael Pack has no legal authority to purge leadership at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a private, indep...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy" target="frame0">Mexico\'s New Copyright Law Puts Human Rights in Jeopardy</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Cory Doctorow)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:10:37 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Correction (Jul 27, 2020, 1700h Pacific): an earlier version of this article erroneously stated that Canada used the USMCA to update its rules on TPMs; while there were proposed rule changes, they were not adopted. We regret the error. Download all the posts in this series as a single PDF. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins a coalition of international organizations in publishing...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eff-hope-2020" target="frame0">EFF Joins HOPE 2020</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Aaron Jue)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:35:23 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('EFF staff members will present some of our latest work at 2600 Magazine\'s biennial Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference beginning this weekend. HOPE is a diverse hacker event that has drawn thousands of tinkerers, security researchers, activists, artists, and makers since 1994. In a departure from the infamous Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, this first-ever virtual edition of HOPE will run an...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eff-and-45-human-rights-and-civil-liberties-groups-condemn-federal-law-enforcement" target="frame0">EFF and 45 Human Rights and Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Federal Law Enforcement Actions Against Protesters in Portland</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Matthew Guarigliarainey Reitman)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:52:42 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('EFF joined dozens of other groups in a letter condemning the behavior of federal law enforcement agencies in Portland, Oregon. Despite the wishes of local government officials, the federal government deployed law enforcement, including U.S. Marshals and Customs and Border Protection officers, to Portland. The federal government officially explained these actions as an effort to protect federal bui...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eff-welcomes-cybersecurity-expert-tarah-wheeler-advisory-board" target="frame0">EFF Welcomes Cybersecurity Expert Tarah Wheeler to Advisory Board</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Karen Gullo)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:35:02 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Cybersecurity policy expert. Security researcher. Women in tech advocate. Entrepreneur. Tarah Wheeler’s expertise and experience encompasses the most pressing issues in tech, and we’re honored to announce that she is joining EFF’s advisory board. She will be helping us with our work on information security, data privacy, building diverse and effective engineering teams, and influencing the future...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/pact-acts-attempt-help-internet-users-hold-platforms-accountable-will-end-hurting" target="frame0">The PACT Act’s Attempt to Help Internet Users Hold Platforms Accountable Will End Up Hurting Online Speakers</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Aaron Mackey)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:03:28 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Recently, nearly every week brings a new effort to undercut or overhaul a key U.S. law—47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”)—that protects online services and allows Internet users to express themselves. Many of these proposals jeopardize users’ free speech and privacy, while others are thinly-veiled attacks against online services that the President and other officials do not like. These attacks on use...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/appeals-court-decision-fails-protect-privacy-cryptocurrency-exchange-users" target="frame0">Appeals Court Decision Fails to Protect Privacy of Cryptocurrency Exchange Users</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Marta Belcher)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:58:16 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Financial records contain a trove of sensitive information about people’s personal lives, beliefs, and affiliations—which is why law enforcement should be required to get a warrant in order to obtain financial transaction data. Courts and lawmakers have gotten this wrong in the context of traditional banks—and a June 30 ruling by a federal appeals court applied this outdated thinking to cryptocurr...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/after-weeks-hack-it-past-time-twitter-end-end-encrypt-direct-messages" target="frame0">After This Week’s Hack, It Is Past Time for Twitter to End-to-End Encrypt Direct Messages</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Gennie GebhartKurt Opsahl)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:38:36 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Earlier this week, chaos reigned supreme on Twitter as high-profile public figures—from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos to President Barack Obama—started tweeting links to the same bitcoin scam. Twitter’s public statement and reporting from Motherboard suggest attackers gained access to an internal admin tool at the company, and used it to take over these accounts. Twitter says that approximately 130 acco...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-definition-broadband-both-useless-and-harmful" target="frame0">The American Federal Definition of Broadband Is Both Useless and Harmful</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Ernesto Falcon)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:36:07 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Definitions matter. Especially when those definitions come from the federal government. In the case of “broadband,” the definition set by the federal government creates our standard of Internet living. Depressingly, the American government’s definition means ISPs get away with offering very poor levels of “broadband.” The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the agency responsible for defini...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacy" target="frame0">EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Danny O&#039;Brien)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:37:44 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The European Union’s highest court today made clear—once again—that the US government’s mass surveillance programs are incompatible with the privacy rights of EU citizens. The judgment was made in the latest case involving Austrian privacy advocate and EFF Pioneer Award winner Max Schrems. It invalidated the “Privacy Shield,” the data protection deal that secured the transatlantic data flow, and n...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/international-trade-commission-opening-door-abusive-patent-owners-and-endangering" target="frame0">The International Trade Commission Is Opening the Door to Abusive Patent Owners and Endangering U.S. Businesses</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Joe Mullin)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:17:02 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The International Trade Commission, or ITC, is a forum that’s meant to protect U.S. industries from unfair trade practices. But in recent years, the prime beneficiaries of the sprawling ITC haven\'t been American manufacturers, but patent owners, patent lawyers, and—you guessed it—patent trolls.  The ITC is a quasi-judicial agency, that has the power to act a lot like a court. An administrative jud...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-searchable-database-police-agencies-and-tech-tools-they-use-spy" target="frame0">EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Karen Gullo)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:54:57 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Atlas of Surveillance Shines Light on Deployment of Cameras, Drones, and MoreSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, today launched the largest-ever collection of searchable data on police use of surveillance technologies, created as a tool for the public to learn about facial recognition, dron...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/join-effs-30th-anniversary-livestream-and-party-its-1990" target="frame0">Join EFF\'s 30th Anniversary Livestream and Party Like It\'s 1990!</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Jason Kelley)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:14:47 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('[This event is over, but you can watch a recorded version on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter.] On Tuesday, July 10, 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation was officially born. It\'s safe to say that on that day, co-founders Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore, with critical help from Steve Wozniak, were ahead of their time in imagining that there needed to be an organization th...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/maine-broadband-privacy-law-passes-early-first-amendment-test" target="frame0">Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Adam SchwartzAndrew CrockerKit Walsh)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:45:38 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('When you send an email or browse the web, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may track what sites you visit and when, as well as any unencrypted information you read or send. So Maine requires ISPs to get their customers’ opt-in consent before using or disclosing this and other personal information. ISPs would rather harvest and monetize your data without restraint, so they filed a poorly concei...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/effs-eu-policy-principles-platform-liability-and-monitoring" target="frame0">Our EU Policy Principles: Platform Liability</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Christoph Schmon)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:13:09 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('As the European Union is gearing up for a major reform of the current backbone of the EU’s Internet regulation—the e-Commerce Directive will be replaced by the Digital Services Act (DSA)—there are choices to be made. Rather than following in the footsteps of recent disastrous Internet legislation (such as the Copyright Directive), the EU should focus on how to put users back in control of their on...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-supreme-court-rule-violating-terms-service-isnt-crime-under-cfaa" target="frame0">EFF To Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Karen Gullo)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:10:40 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Court Warned That CFAA Threatens Researchers Who Make Our Technologies More Secure Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and leading cybersecurity experts today urged the Supreme Court to rein in the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)—and protect the security research we all rely on to keep us safe—by holding that accessing computers in ways that violate terms of...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/coalition-against-stalkerware-expands-membership" target="frame0">Coalition Against Stalkerware Expands Membership</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Eva Galperin)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:08:09 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Privacy and security are both team sports, and no one person or organization completely changes the landscape alone. This is why coalition-building is often at the heart of activism. In 2019, EFF was one of the ten organizations that founded the Coalition Against Stalkerware, a group of security companies, non-profit organizations, and academic researchers that support survivors of domestic abuse ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eff-joins-coalition-call-eu-introduce-interoperability-rules" target="frame0">EFF Joins Coalition Calling On the EU to Introduce Interoperability Rules</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Svea WindwehrChristoph Schmon)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:57:52 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Today, EFF sent a joint letter to European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, highlighting the enormous potential of interoperability to help achieve the EU’s goals for Europe’s digital future. EFF joins a strong coalition of organizations representing European civil society organizations, entrepreneurs, and SMEs. We are calling on the European Commission to consider the role ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eff-files-amicus-brief-arguing-geofence-warrants-violate-fourth-amendment" target="frame0">EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Jennifer Lynch)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Jul 2020 22:53:52 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Should the police be able to force Google to turn over identifying information on every phone within a certain geographic area—potentially hundreds or thousands of devices—just because a crime occurred there? We don’t think so. As we argued in an amicus brief filed recently in People v. Dawes, a case in San Francisco Superior Court, this is a general search and violates the Fourth Amendment. The c...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still-threatens-encryption-and-free-speech" target="frame0">The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Joe Mullin)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:50:25 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('The day before a committee debate and vote on the EARN IT Act, the bill’s sponsors replaced their bill with an amended version. Here’s their new idea: instead of giving a 19-person federal commission, dominated by law enforcement, the power to regulate the Internet, the bill now effectively gives that power to state legislatures.  And instead of requiring that Internet websites and platforms compl...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/googles-amp-canonical-web-and-importance-web-standards-0" target="frame0">Google\'s AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Alexis Hancock)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:11:46 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Have you ever clicked on a link after googling something, only to find that Google didn’t take you to the actual webpage but to some weird Google-fied version of it? Instead of the web address being the source of the article, it still says “google” in the address bar on your phone? That’s what’s known as Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and now Google has announced that AMP has graduated fro...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/amazons-ring-enables-over-policing-efforts-some-americas-deadliest-law-enforcement" target="frame0">Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Jason Kelley)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:46:29 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Ring, Amazon’s “smart” doorbell camera company, recently began sharing statistics on how many video requests police departments submit to users, and the numbers are staggering. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, police requested videos over 5000 times, using their partnerships with the company to email users directly and ask them to share private videos from their Ring devices. It’s unclear how ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/hundreds-police-departments-deadly-histories-partner-amazons-ring-surveillance" target="frame0">Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras</a> <span class="rss-item-auth">(Rebecca Jeschke)</span><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:46:16 +0000</span><br />');
document.write('Partnerships Include Agencies Responsible for Over 30% of Fatal Encounters Over the Last Five YearsSan Francisco – Research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows that hundreds of U.S. police departments with deadly histories have official partnerships with Amazon’s Ring—a home-surveillance company that makes it easy to send video footage to law enforcement. Ring sells networked cameras...');
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