Favorite The Yale Law Journal has published a short essay that I wrote in response to an article by Robert Litt, General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age. Mr. Litt uses EFF’s NSA Spying case Jewel v. NSA and the Klayman v. Obama…
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Ethiopia’s New Cybercrime Law Allows for More Efficient and Systematic Prosecution of Online Speech
Favorite The Ethiopian government has passed a dangerous cybercrime law that criminalizes an array of substantive computer activities including the distribution of defamatory speech, spam, and pornography online among others offenses. The law, dubbed the “Computer Crime Proclamation,” was passed, the government says, in an effort to more accurately attune the country’s laws to technological…
Surveillance Chills Speech—As New Studies Show—And Free Association Suffers
Favorite Visiting an art exhibit featuring works about the U.S. war on terror or going to a lecture about Islam wouldn’t be cause for worry—unless you found out that the government was monitoring and keeping track of attendees. At that point, some people would be spooked and stay away, sacrificing their interests and curiosity to…
La Suprema Corte de México no frena la retención de datos, pero activistas llevarán el caso a Corte internacional
Favorite En una decisión decepcionante, la segunda sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) rechazó la impugnación a los mandatos de retención de datos establecidos por la Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Ley Telecom o LFTR) y la carencia de salvaguardas legales. El amparo -un recurso a disposición de cualquier persona cuyos…
Mexico’s Supreme Court Won’t Halt Data Retention: Activists Plan to Take Case to International Court
Favorite In a disappointing decision, Mexico’s Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Mexico’s Ley Telecom data retention mandates and its lack of legal safeguards The challenge, or writ of amparo—a remedy available to any person whose rights have been violated—was filed by R3D.mx on behalf of a coalition of journalists, human rights NGOs, students arguing…
Cisco’s Latest Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses: Export Rules
Favorite Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its marketing pitch to China and in an effort to meet…
The UK’s Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too
Favorite The FBI’s demand that Apple craft new software to bypass iOS’s security protections has ignited a worldwide debate about a government’s ability to force tech companies to sabotage their own security. One repeated question has been: will other countries, like China, demand the same powers? You don’t need to look to Beijing—or even the…
Ike Had a Dream, and it Unfortunately Came True
Favorite Today marks the 55th anniversary of a world-historical speech by the last victorious military commander to occupy the White House: President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower. His last speech while in office holds crucial implications for the U.S. today, as well as the history we celebrate tomorrow, on Martin Luther King Day. Ike served in…