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Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey | September 8, 2017

Stop SESTA: Amendments to Federal Criminal Sex Trafficking Law Sweep Too Broadly

EFF opposes the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (S. 1693) (“SESTA”), and its House counterpart the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (H.R. 1865). Not only would both bills eviscerate the immunity from liability for user-generated content that Internet intermediaries have under...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | September 7, 2017

California Legislature Defangs Transparency Bill

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has pulled its support of a state bill to strengthen the California Public Records Act after the legislature gutted its most important reform: allowing courts to levy penalties against agencies that knowingly impede the public's right to access information. A.B. 1479 had received near unanimous...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | September 7, 2017

Stop SESTA: Congress Doesn’t Understand How Section 230 Works

As Congress considers undercutting a key law that protects online free speech and innovation, sponsors of the bills don’t seem to understand how Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) works. EFF opposes the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (S. 1693) (“SESTA”) and its House counterpart...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman, Elliot Harmon | September 6, 2017

Defend Our Online Communities: Stop SESTA

A new bill is working its way through Congress that could be disastrous for free speech online. EFF is proud to be part of the coalition fighting back. We all rely on online platforms to work, socialize, and learn. They’re where we go to make friends and share ideas with...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | September 6, 2017

Stop SESTA: Section 230 is Not Broken

EFF opposes the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (S. 1693) (“SESTA”), and its House counterpart the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (H.R. 1865), because they would open up liability for Internet intermediaries—the ISPs, web hosting companies, websites, and social media platforms...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | September 6, 2017

The Privacy Countdown is On: California's Legislature Has Days to Decide to Protect Your Personal Data from Big Telecom

California lawmakers have until Sept. 15 to decide whose side they’re on: broadband consumers like you or giant cable and telephone companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. The matter at hand: A.B. 375, legislation from Assemblymember Ed Chau that would restore many of the privacy protections that Congress stripped earlier...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | September 1, 2017

EFF Calls on New York Court to Vacate Unconstitutional Injunction Against Offensive Speech

A court’s order preliminarily enjoining a website from publishing certain images and statements about a former governmental official is an unconstitutional prior restraint and must be rescinded, EFF argued in an amicus brief filed yesterday in the New York state appellate court. The case, Brummer v. Wey, is...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | September 1, 2017

Innovative Police Transparency Measure Dies in California

We are deeply disappointed to learn that a powerful surveillance transparency reform bill in California has died in the Assembly Appropriations committee today. S.B. 21 sought to hold police departments accountable by giving the public a voice in how law enforcement acquires and deploys new surveillance systems. The bill...

Deeplinks Blog by Daniel Nazer | August 31, 2017

Stupid Patent of the Month: JP Morgan Patents Interapp Permissions

We have often criticized the Patent Office for issuing broad software patents that cover obvious processes. Instead of promoting innovation in software, the patent system places landmines for developers who wish to use basic and fundamental tools. This month’s stupid patent, which covers user permissions for mobile applications, is a...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Amul Kalia | August 30, 2017

Student Privacy Tips for Teachers

The new school year starts next week for most schools across the country. As part of the first line of defense in protecting student privacy, teachers need to be ready to spot the implications of new technology and advocate for their students' privacy rights. Our student privacy...

Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams, Amul Kalia | August 29, 2017

Judge Cracks Down on LinkedIn’s Shameful Abuse of Computer Break-In Law

Good news out of a court in San Francisco: a judge just issued an early ruling against LinkedIn’s abuse of the notorious Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to block a competing service from perfectly legal uses of publicly available data on its website. LinkedIn’s behavior is just the...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | August 29, 2017

Taking the Fight to the Appeals Court: Don’t Lock Laws Behind Paywalls

It’s almost too strange to believe, but a federal court ruled earlier this year that copyright can be used to control access to parts of our state and federal laws—forcing people to pay a fee or sign a contract to read and share them. On behalf of Public.Resource.Org...

Deeplinks Blog by Jyoti Panday | August 28, 2017

India's Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right—and It's About Time

Last week's unanimous judgment by the Supreme Court of India (SCI) in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd) vs Union of India is a resounding victory for privacy. The ruling is the outcome of a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Indian biometric identity scheme Aadhaar. The judgment's ringing endorsement...

Deeplinks Blog by Alan Toner | August 28, 2017

Twitter (and Others) Double Down on Advertising and Tracking

In June, Twitter discontinued its support for Do Not Track (DNT), the privacy-protective browser signal it has honored since 2012. EFF argued that Twitter should reconsider this decision, but that call has gone unheeded. In response, EFF’s Privacy Badger has new features to mitigate user tracking both...

Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Amul Kalia | August 25, 2017

Student Privacy Tips for Students

Students: As you get ready to go back to school, add "review your student privacy rights" to your back-to-school to-do list, right next to ordering books and buying supplies. Exciting new technology in the classroom can also mean privacy violations, including the chance that your personal devices and online...

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Stop SESTA: Amendments to Federal Criminal Sex Trafficking Law Sweep Too Broadly

California Legislature Defangs Transparency Bill

Stop SESTA: Congress Doesn’t Understand How Section 230 Works

Defend Our Online Communities: Stop SESTA

Stop SESTA: Section 230 is Not Broken

The Privacy Countdown is On: California's Legislature Has Days to Decide to Protect Your Personal Data from Big Telecom

EFF Calls on New York Court to Vacate Unconstitutional Injunction Against Offensive Speech

Innovative Police Transparency Measure Dies in California

Stupid Patent of the Month: JP Morgan Patents Interapp Permissions

Student Privacy Tips for Teachers

Judge Cracks Down on LinkedIn’s Shameful Abuse of Computer Break-In Law

Taking the Fight to the Appeals Court: Don’t Lock Laws Behind Paywalls

India's Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right—and It's About Time

Twitter (and Others) Double Down on Advertising and Tracking

Student Privacy Tips for Students

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