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• Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s tell the Copyright Office that it’s not a crime to modify or repair your own devices. Every three years, the Copyright Office holds a rulemaking process where it grants the public permission to bypass digital locks for lawful purposes…. Read More ›

• Victory! Court Protects Anonymity of Security Researchers Who Reported Apparent Communications Between Russian Bank and Trump Organization

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Security researchers who reported observing Internet communications between the Russian financial firm Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in 2016 can remain anonymous, an Indiana trial court ruled last week. The ruling protects the First Amendment anonymous speech rights of… Read More ›

• Podcast Episode: Control Over Users, Competitors, and Critics

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Episode 004 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Cory Doctorow joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how large, established tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook can block interoperability in order to squelch competition and… Read More ›

• Minnesota Tells Pipeline Company Not to Run “Counterinsurgency” Against Protesters

  By theintercept on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The pipeline company Enbridge is poised to begin construction of its controversial Line 3 in northern Minnesota at the end of the month, after state agencies green-lit key permits in mid-November and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers followed with… Read More ›

• Congress Has the Power to Override Supreme Court Rulings. Here’s How.

  By theintercept on November 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  From 1979 until her retirement in 1998, Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant in Gadsden, Alabama. Once she had left the job, she learned a disturbing fact. When Ledbetter had started, her supervisor salary was comparable to… Read More ›

• New alpha release: Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha

  By torblog on November 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  New alpha release: Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha nickm November 23, 2020 There’s a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.5.2-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should… Read More ›

• The FCC’s Independence and Mission Are at Stake with Trump Nominee

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on November 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  When there are only five people in charge of a major federal agency, the personal agenda of even one of them can have a profound impact. That’s why EFF is closely watching the nomination of Nathan Simington to the Federal… Read More ›

• ICANN Can Stand Against Censorship (And Avoid Another .ORG Debacle) by Keeping Content Regulation and Other Dangerous Policies Out of Its Registry Contracts

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on November 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The Internet’s domain name system is not the place to police speech. ICANN, the organization that regulates that system, is legally bound not to act as the Internet’s speech police, but its legal commitments are riddled with exceptions, and aspiring… Read More ›

• A Biden Administration Can Raise Wages and Give Workers More Power — If It Wants To

  By theintercept on November 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  President-elect Joe Biden held a virtual meeting on Monday with union leaders and corporate CEOs. Afterward, Biden declared that he’d told the executives “I’m a union guy” and that in his administration “unions are going to have increased power.” Biden… Read More ›

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