In a long-awaited decision on whether and how Europeans’ private data can be protected from the roving eyes of the NSA, the Irish Commercial High Court this morning declared that “standard contractual clauses” —the procedure that tech companies like Facebook… Read More ›
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Live Blog: House Discusses Section 230
%3Ciframe%20src%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FDyxD260Wz2Y%3Fautoplay%3D1%22%20allowfullscreen%3D%22%22%20width%3D%22560%22%20height%3D%22315%22%20frameborder%3D%220%22%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube.com — 9:07 a.m.: The hearing ends on a positive note, with multiple members of the committee expressing a desire to address sex trafficking in a way that preserves the protections… Read More ›
The End Game for European Upload Filtering Approaches
Update: the October 5 vote in the LIBE committee has now been postponed to an indefinite future date. If you’ve been following the slow progress of the European Commission’s proposal to introduce new upload filtering mandates for Internet platforms, or… Read More ›
No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum
The ruthless efficiency with which the Spanish government censored the Internet ahead of the referendum on Catalonian independence foreshadowed the severity of its crackdown at polling places on October 1. We have previously written about one aspect of that censorship; the raid of the… Read More ›
The War on General-Purpose Computing Turns on the Streaming Media Box Community
For most of the lifetime of Kodi since its release as XMBC in 2002, it was an obscure piece of free software that geeks used to manage their home media collections. But in the past few years, the sale of pre-configured Kodi… Read More ›
Will the Equifax Data Breach Finally Spur the Courts (and Lawmakers) to Recognize Data Harms?
This summer 143 million Americans had their most sensitive information breached, including their name, addresses, social security numbers (SSNs), and date of birth. The breach occurred at Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies that conducts the credit… Read More ›
Canada Pushes Back Against U.S. Copyright Demands in NAFTA
The third round of negotiations over the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is underway right now in Ottawa, and EFF is there to represent you. It’s been a frustrating few days so far. Before explaining why,… Read More ›
Google Will Survive SESTA. Your Startup Might Not.
There was a shocking moment in this week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). Prof. Eric Goldman had just pointed out that members of Congress should consider how the bill might affect hundreds of… Read More ›
Silicon Valley Should Just Say No to Saudi Arabia
American companies face a difficult tradeoff when dealing with government requests, but they should just say no to Saudi Arabia, which is using social media companies to do its dirty work in censoring Qatari media. Over the past few weeks,… Read More ›
.cat Domain a Casualty in Catalonian Independence Crackdown
On October 1, a referendum will be held on whether Catalonia, an autonomous region of the northeast of Spain, should declare itself to be an independent country. The Spanish government has ruled the referendum illegal, and is taking action on… Read More ›