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The Interstate Tug-of-War Over Reproductive Freedom
The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri is blocks west of the famed Gateway Arch National Park, which hugs the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. The sliver of water, just three-tenths of a mile wide, divides downtown St. Louis… Read More ›
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Inside D.C. Police’s Sprawling Network of Surveillance
It was the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2014, awaiting word on whether a grand jury would indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing… Read More ›
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EFF Warns Another Court About the Dangers of Broad Site-Blocking Orders
A copyright holder can’t use a court order against the owner of an infringing website to conscript every intermediary service on the internet into helping make that website disappear, EFF and the Computer & Communications Industry Association argued in an… Read More ›
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Copyright "Small Claims" Quasi-Court Opens. Here's Why Many Defendants Will Opt Out.
A new quasi-court for copyright, with nationwide reach, began accepting cases this week. The “Copyright Claims Board” or “CCB,” housed within the Copyright Office in Washington DC, will rule on private copyright infringement lawsuits from around the country and award… Read More ›
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Our Digital Lives Rest on a Robust, Flexible, and Stable Fair Use Regime
Much of what we do online involves reproducing copyrightable material, changing it, and/or making new works. Technically, pretty much every original tweet is copyrightable. And the vast majority of memes are based on copyrighted works. Your funny edits, mashups, and… Read More ›
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Facebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right.
In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any… Read More ›
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The Tor Project 2020-2021 Annual Report
Hello Tor community, On behalf of the team, I am thrilled to share with you the Tor Project’s latest Annual Report! In the last year, the Tor community has mobilized against increasing global censorship, more than doubled the number of… Read More ›
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Stop This California Bill that Bans Affordable Broadband Rules
The California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee will soon be the first to consider new and terrible amendments to Assemblymember Quirk-Silva’s A.B. 2749—which is backed by AT&T and other telecommunications interests. The legislation would prohibit the state from implementing… Read More ›
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Victory! New York’s Vaccine Privacy Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk
In a win for medical privacy in the Empire State, the New York Legislature has passed a pivotal bill that protects people’s private immunity information like COVID-19 vaccine status from being used to track their movements and be used against… Read More ›
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Senator Declares Amazon Ring's Audio Surveillance Capabilities "Threaten the Public"
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, a long-time critic of Amazon’s surveillance doorbell camera, Ring, has released a letter of concern and inquiry concerning the device’s audio capabilities. This is partially in response to a recent study conducted by Consumer Reports that found… Read More ›
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