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• California Legislature Sells Out Our Data to ISPs

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 16, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In the dead of night, the California Legislature shelved legislation that would have protected every Internet user in the state from having their data collected and sold by ISPs without their permission. By failing to pass A.B. 375, the legislature… Read More ›

• One Last Chance for Police Transparency in California

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  As the days wind down for the California legislature to pass bills, transparency advocates have seen landmark measures fall by the wayside. Without explanation, an Assembly committee shelved legislation that would have shined light on police use of surveillance technologies,… Read More ›

• We're Asking the Copyright Office to Protect Your Right To Remix, Study, and Tinker With Digital Devices and Media

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Who controls your digital devices and media? If it’s not you, why not? EFF has filed new petitions with the Copyright Office to give those in the United States protection against legal threats when you take control of your devices… Read More ›

• Shrinking Transparency in the NAFTA and RCEP Negotiations

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Provisions on digital trade are quietly being squared away in both of the two major trade negotiations currently underway—the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade talks. But due to the worst-ever… Read More ›

• EFF Asks Court: Can Prosecutors Hide Behind Trade Secret Privilege to Convict You?

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  California Appeals Court Urged to Allow Defense Review of DNA Matching Software If a computer DNA matching program gives test results that implicate you in a crime, how do you know that the match is correct and not the result… Read More ›

• With EFF’s Help, Small Business Stands Up To Patent Troll Electronic Communication Technologies, LLC

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Since 1992, Fairytale Brownies has sold delicious brownies based on a secret family recipe. It’s a small business founded by two childhood friends who were quick to see the potential of the Internet and registered the domain www.brownies.com in 1995…. Read More ›

• VICTORY: DOJ Backs Down from Facebook Gag Orders in Not-so-secret Investigation

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The U.S. Department of Justice has come to the obvious conclusion that there’s no need to order Facebook to keep an investigation “secret” when it was never secret in the first place. While we applaud the government’s about-face, we question… Read More ›

• Stop SESTA: Whose Voices Will SESTA Silence?

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Overreliance on Automated Filters Would Push Victims Off of the Internet In all of the debate about the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA, S. 1693), there’s one question that’s received surprisingly little airplay: under SESTA, what would online platforms… Read More ›

• Three Lies Big Internet providers Are Spreading to Kill the California Broadband Privacy Bill

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Now that California’s Broadband Privacy Bill, A.B. 375, is headed for a final vote in the California legislature, Comcast, Verizon, and all their allies are pulling out all the stops to try to convince state legislators to vote against the… Read More ›

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