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EFF Asks California AG to Close Loopholes, Respect \"Do Not Track\" With Regulations (Bennett Cyphers)
'); document.write('Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:30:17 +0000
'); document.write('Today, EFF once again joined a coalition of privacy advocates filing comments with the California Attorney General (AG) on the latest proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in June 2018 and took effect on January 1, 2020. Later this year, the AG will finalize regulations that dictate how exactly the law will be enforced. While the first set of prop...'); document.write('
Members of Congress Once Again Urge ICANN to Save Dot Org (Katharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:44:31 +0000
'); document.write('As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we all have, and the fewer answers we get. For the second time, some of the people questioning the wisdom of this sale are members of the U.S. Congress. On March 18, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ro...'); document.write('
Now More Than Ever, Prisoners Should Have Some Access to Social Media (Mark Rumold)
'); document.write('Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:00:02 +0000
'); document.write('COVID-19 has trapped many of us in our homes, isolating us from family and friends and limiting our movements. But there are few people who feel the isolating impacts of COVID-19 more acutely than those who are actually incarcerated in jails and prisons across the country. As Jerry Metcalf, an inmate in Michigan, wrote for the Marshall Project’s “Life on the Inside” series: For those of you readi...'); document.write('
EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment (Jennifer Lynch)
'); document.write('Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:38:09 +0000
'); document.write('Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Center for Democracy & Technology in filing an amicus brief last week in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court arguing the Fourth Amendment...'); document.write('
EFF Joins Coalition Urging Judicial Transparency During the COVID-19 Emergency (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:22:51 +0000
'); document.write('EFF and a number of other organizations that advocate for government transparency have signed onto a letter written by the First Amendment Coalition asking the California state judiciary to ensure public access to court proceedings and records. Many clerk’s offices are restricting entry and many operations of the state court system have moved online in direct response to actions taken by Gov. Gavi...'); document.write('
The Feds Can Stop Patent Trolls from Endangering COVID-19 Testing and Treatment (Alex MossElliot Harmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:50:18 +0000
'); document.write('It’s unthinkable that bad actors could take advantage of patent law and keep the public from getting access to COVID-19 tests and treatment, but they can and will—it already happened this month. Fortunately, an often-overlooked section of U.S. patent law allows the government to do something about it. Patent troll Labrador Diagnostics LLC recently used a portfolio of old patents to sue a company t...'); document.write('
Verily\'s COVID-19 Screening Website Leaves Privacy Questions Unanswered (Gennie Gebhart)
'); document.write('Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:12:49 +0000
'); document.write('One week after Alphabet’s Verily launched its COVID-19 screening website, several unanswered questions remain about how exactly the project will collect, use, and retain people’s medical information. Verily, a healthcare data subsidiary of Google\'s parent company Alphabet, has until now operated its Project Baseline as a way to connect potential participants with clinical research. Now, after a co...'); document.write('
Speaking Freely: An Interview with Cristian León (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:00:28 +0000
'); document.write('Cristian León, based in Buenos Aires, works for Asuntos del Sur, a “think/do tank” that works to strengthen democracy and participation. Originally from Bolivia, Cristian works on open government and democracy across several countries in Latin America, including conducting digital security trainings. He is also one of the founders and current advisors to the Internet Bolivia Foundation. Over Zoom...'); document.write('
The Right to Anonymity is Vital to Free Expression: Now and Always (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:15:37 +0000
'); document.write('“There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with. They may be concerned about threats to their lives or livelihoods, or they may risk political or economic retribution. They may wish to prevent discrimination or they may use a name that’s easier to pronounce or spell in a given culture.” These words, from a blog post we published nine years ag...'); document.write('
Social Distancing, The Digital Divide, and Fixing This Going Forward (Ernesto Falcon)
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'); document.write('Social distancing, work from home, shelter in place—these are all strategies employed in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Americans who have jobs allowing them to engage in social distancing are very dependent on their Internet connection. That dependence is only going to grow as time goes on. As parents depend on the Internet for homeschooling, as businesses depend on employees being able to wo...'); document.write('
User Privacy Champion Ashkan Soltani Joins EFF Advisory Board (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:28:13 +0000
'); document.write('EFF is proud to announce that independent researcher and technologist Ashkan Soltani has joined our advisory board, where he will share his expertise in privacy and security. Ashkan is a long-time EFF friend and collaborator whose research has informed our efforts to protect users from NSA backdoors, shine a light on third-party tracking, and hold the government accountable for unconstitutional m...'); document.write('
The California Public Records Act Is an Essential Right, Even During a State of Emergency (Dave Maass)
'); document.write('Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:21:26 +0000
'); document.write('As Californians shelter-at-home up and down the state, the journalists and citizen watchdogs who file California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests know that trade-offs must be made. We know that local agencies may be understaffed at this time and that they may be slow to respond to our letters. They may need to restrict our ability to inspect records in person at City Hall, and public records law...'); document.write('
EFF and COVID-19: Protecting Openness, Security, and Civil Liberties (Cindy Cohn)
'); document.write('Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:26:12 +0000
'); document.write('EFF and its members work to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has made obvious how important the Internet and digital tools are to our lives and how vital it is that we maintain an open and secure approach to them. Online Creativity Is A Bright Spot In The Darkness For those of us living under quarantine, shelte...'); document.write('
Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19 (Adam SchwartzAndrew Crocker)
'); document.write('Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:51:18 +0000
'); document.write('Governments around the world are demanding new dragnet location surveillance powers to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. But before the public allows their governments to implement such systems, governments must explain to the public how these systems would be effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. There’s no questioning the need for far-reaching public health measures to meet this urgent chal...'); document.write('
The Time Is Now: The Supreme Court Must Allow Live Cameras (Naomi GilensAlex Moss)
'); document.write('Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:02:39 +0000
'); document.write('At a time when government officials are justifiably limiting in-person gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19, the public should have access to essential government activities. The Supreme Court is no exception, which is why it must finally allow cameras in its courtroom. Responding to the health and safety concerns raised by the spread of COVID-19, the Supreme Court announced on March 12 that ...'); document.write('
Embracing Open Science in a Medical Crisis (Rory Mir)
'); document.write('Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:08:47 +0000
'); document.write('Responding to the threat of COVID-19, science advisers from twelve countries have signed on to an open letter urging scientific publishers to make all COVID-19 research freely available to the public through PubMed Central or the World Health Organization\'s COVID Database. This is an emergency call for open science, the movement to make tools, data, and publications resulting from publicly funded ...'); document.write('
Governments Must Commit to Transparency During COVID-19 Crisis (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:11:47 +0000
'); document.write('As government officials at all levels move quickly to respond to COVID-19 and protect the public’s health, it is vital that they also safeguard the public’s ability to participate in and access information about those decisions, EFF and a coalition of more than 100 organizations wrote in a letter on Friday. Transparency and public access during this crisis is a necessary and important way to give ...'); document.write('
Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:47:32 +0000
'); document.write('In the current moment, governments may be tempted to funnel scarce public health resources into the use of face recognition to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health crises, especially a global pandemic, may require extraordinary measures in favor of the public good—but invasive face surveillance is not in the public’s interest. This approach could involve building new infrastructure to co...'); document.write('
Right to Repair in Times of Pandemic (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:21:11 +0000
'); document.write('Entropy isn\'t just a word, it’s the (second) law (of thermodynamics): the idea that things tend towards chaos and brokenness. That’s why the Right to Repair is so close to our heart: fixing things is nothing less than the embodiment of the ancient struggle to wring order from chaos, to stave off deterioration and collapse. It’s no coincidence that farmers are the vanguard for Right to Repair. Peop...'); document.write('
What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis (Lindsay Oliver)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:47:14 +0000
'); document.write('A greater portion of the world’s work, organizing, and care-giving is moving onto digital platforms and tools that facilitate connection and productivity: video conferencing, messaging apps, healthcare and educational platforms, and more. It’s important to be aware of the ways these tools may impact your digital privacy and security during the COVID-19 crisis. Here are a few things you should kno...'); document.write('
Google Says It Doesn’t \'Sell\' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It. (Bennett Cyphers)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:56:03 +0000
'); document.write('\"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used.\" - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although big tech companies like Google keep the lights on by harvesting and monetizing your personal data, they can be quick to mince words and deny the strawman scenario of exchanging hard drives full of your data for a suitcase of money. Now Cal...'); document.write('
DOJ Moves Forward with Dangerous Plan to Collect DNA from Immigrant Detainees (Saira Hussain)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:39:48 +0000
'); document.write('The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recently-issued final rule requiring the collection of DNA from hundreds of thousands of individuals in immigration detention is a dangerous and unprecedented expansion of biometric screening based not on alleged conduct, but instead on immigration status. This type of forcible DNA collection erodes civil liberties and demonstrates the government’s willingness to ...'); document.write('
Phishing in the Time of COVID-19: How to Recognize Malicious Coronavirus Phishing Scams (Daly BarnettSoraya Okuda)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:04:10 +0000
'); document.write('Update 3-26-20: A new prevalent example of Android Spyware that leverages COVID-19 as a way to deliver their malicious product has been reported by researchers at Lookout. This particular malware, called \"corona live 1.1.\", comes out of Libya and seems to mostly be targeting Libyan citizens. Like other examples listed below, it uses the same COVID-19 dashboard developed by Johns Hopkins University...'); document.write('
Heads Up Internet: A Dangerous Zombie CFAA Expansion Bill is Back (Jamie Williams)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:00:14 +0000
'); document.write('A group of senators in Washington is trying—for the fourth time—to pass dangerous and misguided language that would amend and expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), our nation’s notoriously vague anti-hacking law. The language was first floated in 2015, then again in 2016, and again in 2018. Back in 2018, the language made up a standalone bill, the International Cybercrime Prevention Act,...'); document.write('
Are Your Identification Photos in a Face Recognition Database? (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:39:09 +0000
'); document.write('Take EFF’s Quiz to Help Uncover ‘Who Has Your Face’San Francisco – A majority of Americans are in face recognition databases in use by the U.S. government. Are you one of them? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new quiz called “Who Has Your Face” to help you find out. “Your driver’s license picture and other ID photos are often shared with law enforcement and other agencies l...'); document.write('
Announcing Who Has Your Face (Jason Kelley)
'); document.write('Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:02:53 +0000
'); document.write('The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But right now, at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases—often thanks to secretive agreements between state and federal government agencies—without any of us having opted in. Although the majority of Americans are in these databases, it’s nearly impossible to...'); document.write('
Unchecked Smart Cities are Surveillance Cities. What We Need are Smart Enough Cities. (Jamie Williams)
'); document.write('Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:19:09 +0000
'); document.write('We can have beautiful cities without turning our cities into surveillance cities. Cities across the U.S. are forcing operators of shared bikes and scooters to use dangerous and privacy invasive APIs developed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. These APIs—collectively called the “mobility data specification,” or MDS—require that operators share granular location data on every trip tak...'); document.write('
Enough is Enough—Let it Expire (India McKinney)
'); document.write('Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:37:35 +0000
'); document.write('On March 15, 2020, Section 215—a provision of FISA with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. That provision, along with two other provisions of FISA, lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of FISA reforms. Late last week, before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, which would have extended Sect...'); document.write('
Show Support for Digital Rights During Video Calls with EFF Virtual Backgrounds (Jason KelleyHugh D'Andrade)
'); document.write('Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:24:01 +0000
'); document.write('Want to show your support for EFF while you spend more and more time in video conferences and chats? Here\'s one fun way: virtual backgrounds! We\'ve collected some of our favorite EFF designs that promote issues like transparency, creativity, innovation, and privacy, for users to protect their own privacy (and add some joy to their conference calls) by replacing their usual backgrounds. These imag...'); document.write('
African WhatsApp Modders are the Masters of Worldwide Adversarial Interoperability (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:16:31 +0000
'); document.write('Since the earliest days of consumer computing, computer users have asserted their right to have a say in how their tools worked: whether it was Gopher delivering easy new ways to access services that had originally been designed for power users who could memorize obscure addresses and arcane commands; or toolkits like Hypercard and Visual Basic, which let everyday people automate their work; or Sc...'); document.write('
Tattoo Recognition Score Card: How Institutions Handled Unethical Biometric Surveillance Dataset (Matthew GuarigliaDave MaassAaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:09:36 +0000
'); document.write('In response to an EFF campaign started last year, roughly a third of institutions that we believe requested problematic and exploitive data as part of a government automated tattoo recognition challenge deleted the data or reported that they had never received or used it. EFF has long been concerned with the many problems associated with efforts to use automated tattoo recognition, a form of biom...'); document.write('
Why Is South Korea a Global Broadband Leader? (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:14:23 +0000
'); document.write('A universal fiber network that was completed years ago. Millions of 5G users. Some of the world’s fastest and cheapest broadband connections. South Korea has all of these, while other nations that have the same resources lag behind. How did South Korea become a global leader in the first place? EFF did a deep dive into this question and has produced the following report. The key takeaway: governme...'); document.write('
The Foilies 2020 (Dave MaassMatthew GuarigliaAaron MackeyNaomi GilensSaira HussainCaitlyn Crites)
'); document.write('Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:00:16 +0000
'); document.write('Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency “The Ringer,” the first track on Eminem’s 2018 album, Kamikaze, includes a line that piqued Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold’s curiosity: the rapper claimed the Secret Service visited him due to some controversial lyrics about Ivanka Trump. To find out if it was true, Leopold filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the fed...'); document.write('
Court Orders Hearing in Uniloc’s Patent Case Against Apple to be Conducted by Phone, Citing COVID-19 Risks (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:27:09 +0000
'); document.write('The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, citing public health efforts to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 transmission, ordered that an April hearing in the Uniloc v. Apple patent case be conducted by phone rather than in person and denied EFF’s request to allow the public to watch the proceeding by video.EFF urged the court earlier this week to make public a video of the hearing, in which...'); document.write('
New ¿Where Is My Data? Report: Five Years of Holding ISPs Accountable in Colombia (Veridiana Alimonti)
'); document.write('Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:21:00 +0000
'); document.write('Five years have passed since Colombian digital rights NGO Fundación Karisma launched its first annual ¿Dónde Están Mis Datos? assessing telecommunication companies’ commitment to transparency and user privacy. Since then, we’ve seen major telecom companies providing more transparency about how and when they divulge their users’ data to the government. This project is part of a region-wide initiati...'); document.write('
Speaking Freely: An Interview With Ada Palmer (Jillian C. York)
'); document.write('Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:23:53 +0000
'); document.write('Ada Palmer is a Renaissance historian whose work lies at the intersection of ideas and historical change. She is currently on research leave from the University of Chicago, where she teaches early modern European history. She is also a writer of fiction; her 2016 novel, Too Like the Lightning, was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Ada’s research encompasses many topics, including the h...'); document.write('
New York State Legislator Introduces a Very Bad “Net Neutrality” Bill (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:10:38 +0000
'); document.write('In 2018, California established the gold standard of what states should be doing on net neutrality by passing a model law for other states to copy. So, naturally, that makes the job of any legislator truly interested in protecting net neutrality pretty easy: just copy and paste. But that did not happen in New York’s state legislature this week. State Senator Kevin Parker, the Senate Telecommunicat...'); document.write('
The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:32:12 +0000
'); document.write('Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate. Take Action Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Attack on Encryption That’s what the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed and hopes to pass into law...'); document.write('
Police May Not Need a Warrant to Rummage Through Your Trash, But Warrantless Collection of DNA Is Unconstitutional (Jennifer Lynch)
'); document.write('Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:21:55 +0000
'); document.write('This week, we filed an amicus brief in a South Dakota case arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from surreptitiously collecting our DNA without a warrant. This case is one of the first to challenge the collection of DNA from a free person after results of a genetic genealogy database search linked her to a crime. In the case, prosecutors have charged Teresa Bentaas, a lifelong Si...'); document.write('
The Graham-Blumenthal Bill Is an Attack on Online Speech and Security (Elliot Harmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:53:10 +0000
'); document.write('Members of Congress have mounted a major threat to your freedom of speech and privacy online. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced a bill that would undermine key protections for Internet speech in U.S. law. It would also expose providers of the private messaging services we all rely on to serious legal risk, potentially forcing them to undermine their t...'); document.write('
FAQ about the Tech Projects Director Role (rainey Reitman)
'); document.write('Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:05:14 +0000
'); document.write('We\'re hiring a new Director of Technology Projects. That\'s the team at EFF that develops and maintains Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, the Certbot client for Let\'s Encrypt, and Panopticlick, as well as housing our Threat Lab research group. On top of building and coding, the team also includes EFF\'s public interest technologists, who use their deep understanding of technology to weigh in on poli...'); document.write('
Coalition Asks California\'s Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband for All (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:09:10 +0000
'); document.write('The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently joined several California-based ISPs, tech companies, non-profits, and local governments to commend Governor Newsom for adopting a “Broadband for All” vision. But simply saying “broadband” without a clear eye towards the future risks having government policies adopt infrastructure plans that work in the short run, but fall woefully behind as the demand f...'); document.write('
Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis (Matthew GuarigliaAdam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:22:51 +0000
'); document.write('Across the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary task, many government agencies are collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of identifiable people, including their health, travel, and personal relationships. As our society struggles with how best to minimize the sp...'); document.write('
Victory: Android 11 Rolls out Improved Certificate Warnings (Mona Wang)
'); document.write('Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:00:27 +0000
'); document.write('Now that HTTPS encrypts over 80% of web connections, powerful actors are targeting root certificate stores to compromise our security and surveil us. In the past year alone, that’s included a “market research” company secretly owned by Facebook and the government of Kazakhstan. Forcing users to install a root certificate enables the certificate owner to decrypt almost all their Internet traffic. T...'); document.write('
NGO Community Urges ICANN to Scrutinize the .ORG Sale (Elliot HarmonMitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:47:58 +0000
'); document.write('The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is reviewing the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital, and ICANN has the power to stop the sale. EFF and several other organizations joined a public forum today as part of ICANN’s winter meeting to ask ICANN questions about how it plans to review the change of ownership to protect noncommercia...'); document.write('
Public’s Right to Access Court Proceedings Calls For Livestreaming Hearing in Notorious Patent Troll Case (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:02:25 +0000
'); document.write('EFF Urges Court to Ensure Transparency In Case With Excessive, Unjustified SealingWashington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged a panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to take a stand for open access to judicial proceedings and allow the public to watch by video an upcoming hearing in a patent case involving Apple.EFF is fighting for public ac...'); document.write('
Tech Lobbyists Are Pushing Bad Privacy Bills. Washington State Can, and Must, Do Better. (Bennett CyphersGennie GebhartHayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Fri, 06 Mar 2020 19:11:34 +0000
'); document.write('A data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, 2SSB 6281 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received widespread support from big tech companies. It’s no wonder they like it because, as currently written, the WPA would be a weak, token effort at reining in corporations’ rampant misuse of personal data. The WPA didn’t come from nowhere, and it didn’t come...'); document.write('
Ninth Circuit: Private Social Media Platforms Are Not Bound by the First Amendment (Sophia CopeDavid Greene)
'); document.write('Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:05:45 +0000
'); document.write('The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held in Prager University v. Google that YouTube is not a government actor bound by First Amendment limits simply because it hosts a forum for public speech. Rather, as EFF argued in an amicus brief, YouTube is a private entity whose editorial decisions cannot be challenged under the First Amendment, because YouTube itself has First Amendmen...'); document.write('
.ORG Isn’t Broken, and We Don’t Need Private Equity to ‘Fix’ It (Cara Gagliano)
'); document.write('Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:57:00 +0000
'); document.write('Ethos Capital—the private equity firm poised to purchase the .ORG domain registry for $1.1 billion—and Public Interest Registry (PIR, the entity Ethos wants to buy) have been attempting to respond to the concerns raised by the .ORG community. These after-the-fact changes just make clear that while there is nothing currently wrong with .ORG, there is a lot that could go wrong if this deal moves for...'); document.write('
Internet Loses One of its Biggest, Best Advocates: EFF Special Counsel Jim Tyre (Cindy Cohn)
'); document.write('Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:40:06 +0000
'); document.write('EFF has just learned that our dear friend Special Counsel Jim Tyre—one of the biggest and best Internet advocates you may never have heard of—has passed away. UPDATE:The funeral will be on Sunday at 12:00 noon, Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, 6001 W Centinela Ave, Los Angeles CA 90045 We are mourning Jim today for countless reasons. He was a larger-than-life personality, and was well loved f...'); document.write('