Today, EFF once again joined a coalition of privacy advocates filing comments with the California Attorney General (AG) on the latest proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in June 2018 and took effect… Read More ›
Archive for March 2020
Members of Congress Once Again Urge ICANN to Save Dot Org
As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we… Read More ›
Now More Than Ever, Prisoners Should Have Some Access to Social Media
COVID-19 has trapped many of us in our homes, isolating us from family and friends and limiting our movements. But there are few people who feel the isolating impacts of COVID-19 more acutely than those who are actually incarcerated in… Read More ›
How ICE Operations in New York Set the Stage for a Coronavirus Nightmare in Local Jails
Immigration lawyers in New York City already had their hands full. In the weeks before the world was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, reports were coming in from across the city and surrounding areas of increasingly aggressive immigration arrests. In… Read More ›
EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment
Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined… Read More ›
To Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine, Pharma and the Federal Government Will Have to Break Old Patterns
In 2016, after years of effort and millions of dollars in government investment, a team of Texas scientists finally developed a promising vaccine for SARS, the deadly strain of coronavirus that had infected over 8,000 people worldwide in the early… Read More ›
Lavoro da remoto e sicurezza personale
Lavoro da remoto e sicurezza personale Gus March 26, 2020 View this post in English (en) | Portuguese (pt) | Spanish (es). Stiamo vivendo un momento preoccupante e delicato a livello mondiale. Tor e’ un’organizzazione 100%-remote e internazione che sviluppa… Read More ›
EFF Joins Coalition Urging Judicial Transparency During the COVID-19 Emergency
EFF and a number of other organizations that advocate for government transparency have signed onto a letter written by the First Amendment Coalition asking the California state judiciary to ensure public access to court proceedings and records. Many clerk’s offices… Read More ›
The Feds Can Stop Patent Trolls from Endangering COVID-19 Testing and Treatment
It’s unthinkable that bad actors could take advantage of patent law and keep the public from getting access to COVID-19 tests and treatment, but they can and will—it already happened this month. Fortunately, an often-overlooked section of U.S. patent law… Read More ›
Verily's COVID-19 Screening Website Leaves Privacy Questions Unanswered
One week after Alphabet’s Verily launched its COVID-19 screening website, several unanswered questions remain about how exactly the project will collect, use, and retain people’s medical information. Verily, a healthcare data subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has until now… Read More ›