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Proctoring Tools and Dragnet Investigations Rob Students of Due Process (Jason KelleyBill BudingtonSophia Cope)
'); document.write('Thu, 15 Apr 2021 20:21:49 +0000
'); document.write('Update, April 16, 2021: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) points out that Dartmouth has publicly expressed a commitment to upholding free speech and dissent on campus. The medical school should strive to uphold these policies, and as FIRE argues, they may even be considered contracts that the school has breached with its social media policy that prohibits \"disparaging\" and ...'); document.write('
EFF Partners with DuckDuckGo to Enhance Secure Browsing and Protect User Information on the Web (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:33:18 +0000
'); document.write('DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption Will Be Incorporated Into HTTPS Everywhere San Francisco, California—Boosting protection of Internet users’ personal data from snooping advertisers and third-party trackers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced it has enhanced its groundbreaking HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption. The par...'); document.write('
HTTPS Everywhere Now Uses DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption (Alexis Hancock)
'); document.write('Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:58:17 +0000
'); document.write('Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last few years and major browsers have made strides in seeing that HTTPS becomes the default. This project has shepherded a decade of encrypted web traffic and we look onward to setting our efforts protecting people when ne...'); document.write('
Congress, Don’t Let ISP Lobbyists Sabotage Fiber for All (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:16:06 +0000
'); document.write('For the first time, an American president has proposed a plan that wouldn’t just make a dent in the digital divide, it will end it. By deploying federal resources at the level and scale this country has not seen since electrification nearly 100 years ago, the U.S. will again connect every resident to a necessary service. Like with water and electricity, robust internet access, as the pandemic has ...'); document.write('
Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:26:24 +0000
'); document.write('Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will sell this sensitive information to almost any willing buyer. With cellphone carriers ...'); document.write('
California: Demand Broadband for All (Chao Liu)
'); document.write('Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:11:31 +0000
'); document.write('From the pandemic to the Frontier bankruptcy to the ongoing failures in remote learning, we’ve seen now more than ever how current broadband infrastructure fails to meet the needs of the people. This pain is particularly felt in already under-served communities—urban and rural—where poverty and lack of choice leaves millions at the mercy of monopolistic Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who have f...'); document.write('
Why EFF Supports Repeal of Qualified Immunity (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:28:12 +0000
'); document.write('Our digital rights are only as strong as our power to enforce them. But when we sue government officials for violating our digital rights, they often get away with it because of a dangerous legal doctrine called “qualified immunity.” Do you think you have a First Amendment right to use your cell phone to record on-duty police officers, or to use your social media account to criticize politicians? ...'); document.write('
After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere (Bennett Cyphers)
'); document.write('Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:41:34 +0000
'); document.write('Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google has proposed Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), TURTLEDOVE, and other bird-themed tech that would have browsers do some of the behavioral profiling that third-party trackers do today. But a coalition of independent surveillance advertisers has a different plan. Instead of stuffing more tracking tech into the brow...'); document.write('
Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks (Shirin MoriJason Kelley)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:18:46 +0000
'); document.write('Last week, the New York Times highlighted the Trump 2020 campaign’s use of deceptive web designs to deceive supporters into donating far more money than they had intended. The campaign’s digital donation portal hid an unassuming but unfair method for siphoning funds: a pre-checked box to “make a monthly recurring donation.” This caused weekly withdrawals from supporters’ bank accounts, with some b...'); document.write('
EFF Challenges Surreptitious Collection of DNA at Iowa Supreme Court (Jennifer Lynch)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:35:01 +0000
'); document.write('Last week, EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Iowa, filed an amicus brief in the Iowa Supreme Court challenging the surreptitious collection of DNA without a warrant. We argued this practice violates the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 8 of the Iowa state constitution. This is the first case to reach a state supreme court involving such a challenge after results of a genetic genealog...'); document.write('
Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google\'s Invasive Experiment (Andrés Arrieta)
'); document.write('Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:22:00 +0000
'); document.write('Today we’re launching Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. If you are a subject, we will tell you how your browser is describing you to every website you visit. Am I FLoCed is one of an effort to bring to light the invasive practices of the...'); document.write('
What Movie Studios Refuse to Understand About Streaming (Katharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:57:06 +0000
'); document.write('The longer we live in the new digital world, the more we are seeing it replicate systemic issues we’ve been fighting for decades. In the case of movie studios, what we’ve seen in the last few years in streaming mirrors what happened in the 1930s and ‘40s, when a small group of movie studios also controlled the theaters that showed their films. And by 1948, the actions of the studios were deemed vi...'); document.write('
Organizations Call on President Biden to Rescind President Trump’s Executive Order that Punished Online Social Media for Fact-Checking (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:01:26 +0000
'); document.write('President Joe Biden should rescind a dangerous and unconstitutional Executive Order issued by President Trump that continues to threaten internet users’ ability to obtain accurate and truthful information online, six organizations wrote in a letter sent to the president on Wednesday. The organizations, Rock The Vote, Voto Latino, Common Cause, Free Press, Decoding Democracy, and the Center for Dem...'); document.write('
India’s Strict Rules For Online Intermediaries Undermine Freedom of Expression (Katitza RodriguezSasha MathewChristoph Schmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:06:23 +0000
'); document.write('India has introduced draconian changes to its rules for online intermediaries, tightening government control over the information ecosystem and what can be said online. It has created rules that seek to restrict social media companies and other content hosts from coming up with their own moderation policies, including those framed to comply with international human rights obligations. The new “Int...'); document.write('
The EU Online Terrorism Regulation: a Bad Deal (Jillian C. YorkChristoph Schmon)
'); document.write('Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000
'); document.write('On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online—dubbed the Terrorism Regulation, or TERREG for short—that contained some alarming ideas. In particular, the proposal included an obligation for platforms to remove potentially terrorist content within one hour, following an order from national competent a...'); document.write('
Victory for Fair Use: The Supreme Court Reverses the Federal Circuit in Oracle v. Google (Michael Barclay)
'); document.write('Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:34:05 +0000
'); document.write('In a win for innovation, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is a lawful fair use. In doing so, the Court reversed the previous rulings by the Federal Circuit and recognized that copyright only promotes innovation and creativity when it provides breathing room for those who are building on what has come before. This decision g...'); document.write('
553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy (Cory Doctorow)
'); document.write('Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:03:54 +0000
'); document.write('Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about our data to protect against them. If history is any indication, that’ll work. But if we finally wise up, we’ll respond to this latest crisis with serious action...'); document.write('
First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police (Sophia CopeAdam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Mon, 05 Apr 2021 21:52:27 +0000
'); document.write('EFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for holding that the First Amendment protects individuals when they secretly audio record on-duty police officers. EFF filed an amicus brief in the case, Martin v. Rollins, which was brought by the ACLU of Massachusetts on behalf of two civil rights activists. This is a victory for people within the jurisdiction of the First Circuit (Mas...'); document.write('
Maine Should Take this Chance to Defund the Local Intelligence Fusion Center (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:18:42 +0000
'); document.write('Maine state representative Charlotte Warren has introduced LD1278 (HP938), or An Act To End the Maine Information and Analysis Center Program, a bill that would defund the Maine Information and Analysis Center (MIAC), also known as Maine’s only fusion center. EFF is happy to support this bill in hopes of defunding an unnecessary, intrusive, and often-harmful piece of the U.S. surveillance regime. ...'); document.write('
Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene? (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Fri, 02 Apr 2021 05:15:55 +0000
'); document.write('Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits and users spoke out. Governments expressed alarm, and ICANN (the entity in charge of the internet’s domain name system) scuttled the sale. Now Ethos is buying a controlling stake in Donuts...'); document.write('
Content Moderation Is A Losing Battle. Infrastructure Companies Should Refuse to Join the Fight (Corynne McSherryIndia McKinneyJillian C. York)
'); document.write('Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:44:53 +0000
'); document.write('It seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new step in his blatant effort to use 230 reform to entrench Facebook’s dominance. Second, new reports are demonstrating, if further demonstration were needed, how badly Facebook is failing ...'); document.write('
The FCC Wants Your Broadband Horror Stories: You Know What to Do (Chao Liu)
'); document.write('Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:07 +0000
'); document.write('At long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for your broadband experiences. When you submit your experiences here, you will let the FCC know whether you have been adequately served by your internet service provider (ISP). The feedback you provide informs future broadband availability as well as funding, standards, and federal policy. Traditionally, the FCC credulously relie...'); document.write('
Tenth Circuit Misses Opportunity to Affirm the First Amendment Right to Record the Police (Sophia CopeAdam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:47:33 +0000
'); document.write('We are disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this week dodged a critical constitutional question: whether individuals have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police officers. EFF had filed an amicus brief in the case, Frasier v. Evans, asking the court to affirm the existence of the right to record the police in the states under the court’s jurisdiction (Colorado...'); document.write('
EFF to Court: Don’t Let Pseudo-IP Thwart Speech, Innovation, and Competition (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:46:04 +0000
'); document.write('The threats to online expression and innovation keep coming. One that’s flown under the radar is a misguided effort to convince the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to allow claims based on the “right of publicity,” (i.e., the right to control the commercial exploitation of your persona) because some people think of this right as a form of “intellectual property.” State law claims are normally barre...'); document.write('
Schools Can’t Punish Students for Off-Campus Speech, Including Social Media Posts, EFF Tells Supreme Court (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:33:20 +0000
'); document.write('Online Comments Made Outside School Are Fully Protected by the First AmendmentWashington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Supreme Court to rule that when students post on social media or speak out online while off campus, they are protected from punishment by school officials under the First Amendment—an important free speech principle amid unprecedented, troubling monitori...'); document.write('
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. (Bennett Cyphers)
'); document.write('Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:35:38 +0000
'); document.write('Update, April 9, 2021 : We\'ve launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been...'); document.write('
Crowdfunding Legal Fees Is Not a Crime (rainey ReitmanJillian C. York)
'); document.write('Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:45:00 +0000
'); document.write('A piece in USA Today describes how a number of Capitol Hill rioters are utilizing online fundraising platforms to raise funds to cover legal fees, only to find their accounts shut down. This is prompting an online discussion not only about when and how tech companies should shutter online accounts for those accused of illegal activity but also about what financial services should be available to t...'); document.write('
Local Franchising, Big Cities, and Fiber Broadband (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:55:04 +0000
'); document.write('In 2005, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a foundational decision on how broadband competition policy would work with the entry of fiber to the home. In short, the FCC concluded that competition was growing, government policy was unnecessary in deference to market forces, and that the era of communications monopoly was rapidly ending. The very next year at the request of companies ...'); document.write('
Stupid Patent of the Month: Telehealth Robots Say Goodbye (Alex Moss)
'); document.write('Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:16:20 +0000
'); document.write('Before COVID-19, people living in rural and isolated areas urgently needed to access health care services remotely; now we all do. Thanks to decades of innovation in computing and telecommunications, more essential health care services are available electronically than ever before. But there’s no guarantee they will always be as accessible and affordable as they are today. Because the Patent Offic...'); document.write('
Even with Changes, the Revised PACT Act Will Lead to More Online Censorship (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:10:18 +0000
'); document.write('Among the dozens of bills introduced last Congress to amend a key internet law that protects online services and internet users, the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency Act (PACT Act) was perhaps the only serious attempt to tackle the problem of a handful of dominant online services hosting people’s expression online. Despite the PACT Act’s good intentions, EFF could not support the ...'); document.write('
Dystopia Prime: Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance (Adam Schwartz)
'); document.write('Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:40:46 +0000
'); document.write('Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both privacy and consent. Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed the company’s cruel “take it...'); document.write('
Free as in Climbing: Rock Climber’s Open Data Project Threatened by Bogus Copyright Claims (Mitch Stoltz)
'); document.write('Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:05:34 +0000
'); document.write('Rock climbers have a tradition of sharing “beta”—helpful information about a route—with other climbers. Giving beta is both useful and a form of community-building within this popular sport. Given that strong tradition of sharing, we were disappointed to learn that the owners of an important community website, MountainProject.com, were abusing copyright to try to shut down another site OpenBeta.io...'); document.write('
Facebook’s Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee (Aaron Mackey)
'); document.write('Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:28:28 +0000
'); document.write('As Mark Zuckerberg tries to sell Congress on Facebook’s preferred method of amending the federal law that serves as a key pillar of the internet, lawmakers must see it for what it really is: a self-serving and cynical effort to cement the company’s dominance. In prepared testimony submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee before a Thursday hearing, Zuckerberg pro...'); document.write('
Statement on the Re-election of Richard Stallman to the FSF Board (Danny O'Brien)
'); document.write('Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:05:05 +0000
'); document.write('We at EFF are profoundly disappointed to hear of the re-election of Richard Stallman to a leadership position at the Free Software Foundation, after a series of serious accusations of misconduct led to his resignation as president and board member of the FSF in 2019. We are also disappointed that this was done despite no discernible steps taken by him to be accountable for, much less make amends f...'); document.write('
Facebook Treats Punk Rockers Like Crazy Conspiracy Theorists, Kicks Them Offline (Joe Mullin)
'); document.write('Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:50:34 +0000
'); document.write('Facebook announced last year that it would be banning followers of QAnon, the conspiracy theorists that allege that a cabal of satanic pedophiles is plotting against former U.S. president Donald Trump. It seemed like a case of good riddance to bad rubbish. Members of an Oakland-based punk rock band called Adrenochrome were taken completely by surprise when Facebook disabled their band page, al...'); document.write('
Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:34:13 +0000
'); document.write('In September 2020, the Tampa Bay Times revealed a destructive “data-driven” policing program run by the Pasco County, Florida Sheriff\'s Office. The program is misleadingly called “Intelligence-Led Policing” (ILP), but in reality, it\'s nothing more than targeted child harassment by police. Young people\'s school grades and absences, minor infractions, and even instances where they are a victim of cr...'); document.write('
Video Hearing Tuesday: EFF Tells California Lawmakers to Crack Down on License Plate Data Collection (Rebecca Jeschke)
'); document.write('Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:32:45 +0000
'); document.write('SB 210 Would Require Data Destruction Within 24 Hours, Among Other ReformsSacramento – On Tuesday, March 23, at 1:30 pm PT, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge California senators to crack down on location tracking by passing SB 210, a bill that would require the destruction of automatically collected license plate data within 24 hours of collection, among other robust reforms. You ...'); document.write('
EFF Joins Effort to Restrict Automated License Plate Readers in California (Dave MaassHayley Tsukayama)
'); document.write('Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:59:53 +0000
'); document.write('One year ago, the California State Auditor released a damning report on the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by local law enforcement agencies that confirmed concerns EFF has raised for years. Police are using these camera systems to collect enormous amounts of sensitive data on Californians\' travel patterns. Yet they often haven\'t followed the basic requirements of a 2015 state law,...'); document.write('
AT&T’s HBO Max Deal Was Never Free (Ernesto FalconKatharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:34:26 +0000
'); document.write('When it launched HBO Max, it was discovered that usage of the service would not count against the data caps of AT&T customers, a practice known as “zero-rating.” This means that people on limited data plans could watch as much HBO Max content as they wished without incurring overage fees. AT&T just declared that it would stop this practice, citing California’s net neutrality law as a reaso...'); document.write('
EFF Members: We Want to Hear From You! (Aaron JueChristian Romero)
'); document.write('Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:51:35 +0000
'); document.write('For the first time, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reaching out to its vast community to improve its membership program and outreach. Today current EFF members and other donors from the past year will receive an email inviting them to tell us how to better serve our supporters. Public support has powered EFF\'s initiatives to defend digital privacy, security, and free expression for decades,...'); document.write('
Twitter, Trump, and Tough Decisions: EU Freedom of Expression and the Digital Services Act (Christoph Schmon)
'); document.write('Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000
'); document.write('This blog post was co-written by Dr. Aleksandra Kuczerawy (Senior Fellow and Researcher at KU Leuven) and inspired by her publication at Verfassungsblog. Suspension of Trump’s Social Media Accounts: Controversial, but not unprecedented The suspension of the social media accounts of former U.S. President Donald Trump by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others sparked a lot of controversy...'); document.write('
An Antitrust Exemption for News Media Won’t Take Us Back to the Time Before Big Tech (Katharine TrendacostaDanny O'Brien)
'); document.write('Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:31:28 +0000
'); document.write('Something is rotten online. Facebook and Google dominate the market on online advertising, depleting the resources needed by any other company reliant on serving digital content. For news media, the confluence of an increasingly digital world with Google and Facebook’s siphoning of online advertising revenue has been catastrophic. Unfortunately, giving news media an antitrust exemption to bargain ...'); document.write('
Additional Regulations Approved for the California Consumer Privacy Act (Alexis Hancock)
'); document.write('Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:07:29 +0000
'); document.write('The California Attorney General recently published new regulations that implement the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a law that takes some important steps to empower consumer choice. What stands out the most in the new regulations is the explicit prohibitions around deceitful user interfaces (Section 999.315h) when the user exercises their CCPA right to opt-out from sale of their personal...'); document.write('
EFF’s Crowd-Sourced Atlas of Surveillance Project Honored with Award for Advancing Public’s Right to Know About Police Spying (Karen Gullo)
'); document.write('Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:22:55 +0000
'); document.write('Partnering with University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism Students, EFF Collects and Aggregates Data about Police Surveillance SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce it has received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Electronic Access for its groundbreaking, crowd-sourced Atlas of Surveillance, the largest-ever collection of sea...'); document.write('
Sacramento Might be Undergoing a Broadband Policy Reboot (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:46:58 +0000
'); document.write('When it comes to broadband policy, much of the attention on California understandably has been focused on its legal win on S.B. 822, its landmark net neutrality law. That court case is likely to head to the 9th Circuit next, and we are optimistic that the state will prevail. But while that law continues its journey through the courts, there are nearly a dozen bills covering broadband policy in Cal...'); document.write('
Rewriting Intermediary Liability Laws: What EFF Asks – and You Should Too (Corynne McSherry)
'); document.write('Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:26:08 +0000
'); document.write('Rewriting the legal pillars of the Internet is a popular sport these days. Frustration at Big Tech, among other things, has led to a flurry of proposals to change long-standing laws, like Section 230, Section 512 of the DMCA, and the E-Commerce Directive, that help shield online intermediaries from potential liability for what their users say or do, or for their content moderation decisions. It’s ...'); document.write('
Thank You for Speaking Against a Terrible Copyright Proposal (Katharine Trendacosta)
'); document.write('Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:16:16 +0000
'); document.write('Last week was the deadline for comments on the draft of the so-called “Digital Copyright Act,” a proposal which would fundamentally change how creativity functions online. We asked for creators to add their voices to the many groups opposing this draft, and you did it. Ultimately, over 900 of you signed a letter expressing your concern. The “Digital Copyright Act” was the result of a year of heari...'); document.write('
The Foilies 2021 (Dave MaassAaron MackeyNaomi GilensCaitlyn Crites)
'); document.write('Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:51:18 +0000
'); document.write('Recognizing the year\'s worst in government transparency. The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, and Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens, and MuckRock News Co-Founder Michael Morisy and Senior Reporter and Projects Editor Beryl Lipton, with further writing and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are ...'); document.write('
Seattle and Portland: Say No to Public-Private Surveillance Networks (Matthew Guariglia)
'); document.write('Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:56:19 +0000
'); document.write('An organization calling itself Safe Cities Northwest is aiming to create public-private surveillance networks in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. The organization claims that it is building off of a “successful model for public safety” that it built in San Francisco. However, it’s hard to call that model successful when it has been at the center of a civil rights lawsuit against the city ...'); document.write('
Congress Proposes Bold Plan to End the Digital Divide (Ernesto Falcon)
'); document.write('Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:05:41 +0000
'); document.write('New year, new Congress, but the problems of Internet access remains. If anything, the longer the COVID-19 crisis continues, the stronger the case for fast, affordable, Internet for all becomes. And so, an updated version of the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act has been introduced. It remains a bold federal program that will tackle broadband access in the same scale and scope the United ...'); document.write('