Announcing the Opening of Nominations for the Middle East Summit of Excellence Awards
Announcing the Opening of Nominations for the Middle East Summit of Excellence Awards – Technology Today – EIN Presswire
EFF Tells Minnesota Supreme Court to Strike Down Geofence Warrant As Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Takes the Wrong Turn
We haven’t seen the end of invasive geofence warrants just yet, despite Google’s big announcement late last year that it was fundamentally changing how it collects location data. Today, EFF is filing an amicus brief in the Minnesota Supreme Court in State v. Contreras-Sanchez, involving a warrant that directed Google to turn over an entire…
EFF, International Partners Appeal to EU Delegates to Help Fix Flaws in Draft UN Cybercrime Treaty That Can Undermine EU’s Data Protection Framework
With the final negotiating session to approve the UN Cybercrime Treaty just days away, EFF and 21 international civil society organizations today urgently called on delegates from EU states and the European Commission to push back on the draft convention’s many flaws, from the excessively broad scope that will grants intrusive surveillance powers without robust human…
Beyond Pride Month: Protecting Digital Identities For LGBTQ+ People
Data sanctuary is strongest if there is less data to protect. That’s one more reason why Congress and the states must enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation that limits how businesses collect, retain, use, and share our data. A great way to stop anti-trans officials from seizing data from businesses… This post was originally published…
Courts Should Have Jurisdiction over Foreign Companies Collecting Data on Local Residents, EFF Tells Appeals Court
This post was written by EFF legal intern Danya Hajjaji. Corporations should not be able to collect data from a state’s residents while evading the jurisdiction of that state’s courts, EFF and the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice explained in a friend-of-the-court brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The…
Victory! EFF Supporters Beat USPTO Proposal To Wreck Patent Reviews
The U.S. patent system is broken, particularly when it comes to software patents. At EFF, we’ve been fighting hard for changes that make the system more sensible. Last month, we got a big victory when we defeated a set of rules that would have mangled one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s most…
Modern Cars Can Be Tracking Nightmares. Abuse Survivors Need Real Solutions.
The amount of data modern cars collect is a serious privacy concern for all of us. But in an abusive situation, tracking can be a nightmare. As a New York Times article outlined, modern cars are often connected to apps that show a user a wide range of information about a vehicle, including real-time location…
Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed suit against the Detroit Police Department after officers…
EFF to FCC: SS7 is Vulnerable, and Telecoms Must Acknowledge That
It’s unlikely you’ve heard of Signaling System 7 (SS7), but every phone network in the world is connected to it, and if you have ever roamed networks internationally or sent an SMS message overseas you have used it. SS7 is a set of telecommunication protocols that cellular network operators use to exchange information and route…
Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We’ve Long Argued, Supreme Court Said Without Addressing Whether That Applies to Other Services Like Messaging
Social media platforms, at least in their most common form, have a First Amendment right to curate the third-party speech they select for and recommend to their users, and the government’s ability to manipulate those processes is extremely limited, the U.S. Supreme Court stated in its landmark decision in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v.…