We filed a friend-of-the-court brief—primarily written by the First Amendment Clinic at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law—in support of a TikTok employee who is challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on TikTok and was seeking a temporary restraining order… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Social Networks’
After This Week’s Hack, It Is Past Time for Twitter to End-to-End Encrypt Direct Messages
Earlier this week, chaos reigned supreme on Twitter as high-profile public figures—from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos to President Barack Obama—started tweeting links to the same bitcoin scam. Twitter’s public statement and reporting from Motherboard suggest attackers gained access to… Read More ›
EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information
Special thanks to legal intern Rachel Sommers, who was the lead author of this post. Visa applicants to the United States are required to disclose personal information including their work, travel, and family histories. And as of May 2019, they… Read More ›
The Executive Order Targeting Social Media Gets the FTC, Its Job, and the Law Wrong
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private… Read More ›
Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Leverage Government’s Advertising Dollars to Pressure Online Platforms
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts can be found here, here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) seeks to insert the… Read More ›
Trump’s Executive Order Seeks To Have FCC Regulate Platforms. Here’s Why It Won’t Happen
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private Internet… Read More ›
Dangers of Trump’s Executive Order Explained
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Links to other posts are below. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) is a mess on many levels: it’s likely… Read More ›
How Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
Twitter has publicly disclosed a security “incident” that points to long-standing problems with how the service handles phone numbers. Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were uploading large numbers of phone… Read More ›
Rights Groups to European Commission: Prioritize Users’ Rights, Get Public Input For Article 17 Application Guidelines
The implementation of Art 17 (formerly Article 13) into national laws will have a profound effect on what users can say and share online. The controversial rule, part of the EU’s copyright directive approved last year, turns tech companies and… Read More ›
Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future: 2019 in Review
The Internet’s decentralized nature has historically been its greatest super-power, granting it the ability to shrug off censors and spies and redistribute power away from corruptible gatekeepers out to the creators and innovators on its edges. But it’s only been… Read More ›