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• Join EFF's 30th Anniversary Livestream and Party Like It's 1990!

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  On Friday, 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… Read More ›

• Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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’… Read More ›

• Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr

  By theintercept on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor the protests that swept the country following the killing of George Floyd, tipping off police to social media posts with the latest whereabouts and actions… Read More ›

• New releases: Tor 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, and 0.4.3.6 (with security fixes)

  By torblog on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  New releases: Tor 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, and 0.4.3.6 (with security fixes) nickm July 09, 2020 We have new stable releases today. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.3.6 on the website. Packages should be… Read More ›

• New alpha release: Tor 0.4.4.2-alpha

  By torblog on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  New alpha release: Tor 0.4.4.2-alpha nickm July 09, 2020 There’s a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.4.2-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should… Read More ›

• How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan

  By theintercept on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s SYSTEM UPDATE episode about this topic can be viewed on The Intercept’s YouTube channel or on the player below. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. smiles as she arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex… Read More ›

• Our EU Policy Principles: Platform Liability

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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… Read More ›

• EFF To Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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… Read More ›

• #MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet

  By torblog on July 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  #MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet Gus July 08, 2020 Starting today, July 8th, the Tor Project is running a one month campaign called #MoreOnionsPorfavor to raise awareness about onion sites, that is, websites available over onion… Read More ›

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