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Deeplinks Blog by Rory Mir | September 13, 2024

NextNav’s Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz

The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource. Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has become...

Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings | September 12, 2024

We Called on the Oversight Board to Stop Censoring “From the River to the Sea” — And They Listened

Earlier this year, the Oversight Board announced a review of three cases involving different pieces of content on Facebook that contained the phrase “From the River to the Sea.” EFF submitted to the consultation urging Meta to make individualized moderation decisions on this content rather than a blanket...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | September 11, 2024

Stopping the Harms of Automated Decision Making | EFFector 36.12

Curious about the latest digital rights news? Well, you're in luck! In our latest newsletter we cover topics including the Department of Homeland Security's use of AI in the immigration system, the arrest of Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov, and a victory in California where we helped kill...

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, Jillian C. York | September 11, 2024

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

As British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah enters his fifth year in a maximum security prison outside Cairo, unjustly charged for supporting online free speech and privacy for Egyptians and people across the Middle East and North Africa, we stand with his family and an ever-growing international...

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | September 6, 2024

School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety

Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Lisa Femia | September 6, 2024

You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public

When we spend time fighting the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not true. In the United States, you do have some expectation of privacy—even in public—and it’s important to...

Deeplinks Blog by Hannah Zhao, Matthew Guariglia | September 5, 2024

EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions

For years, EFF has been monitoring and warning about the dangers of automated and so-called “AI-enhanced” surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border. As we’ve made clear, algorithmic decision-making should never get the final say on whether a person should be policed, arrested, denied freedom, or, in this case, are worthy of...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | September 4, 2024

U.S. Federal Employees: Plant Your Flag for Digital Freedoms Today!

Like clockwork, September is here—and so is the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pledge period! The CFC is the world’s largest and most successful annual charity campaign for U.S. federal employees and retirees. You can now make a pledge to support EFF’s lawyers, technologists, and activists in the fight for privacy...

Deeplinks Blog by Electronic Frontier Foundation | September 4, 2024

EFF Calls For Release of Alexey Soldatov, "Father of the Russian Internet"

EFF was deeply disturbed to learn that Alexey Soldatov, known as the “father of the Russian Internet,” was sentenced in July to two years in prison by a Moscow court for alleged “misuse” of IP addresses. In 1990, Soldatov led the Relcom computer network that made the first Soviet...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | September 3, 2024

Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way

EFF opposed this bill from the start. Bills that allow politicians to define what is “sexually explicit” content and then enact punishments for those who engage with it are inherently censorship bills—and they never stop with minors.

Deeplinks Blog by Brendan Gilligan, Saira Hussain, Jennifer Lynch | September 3, 2024

EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches

The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, challenges device and data seizures and searches conducted by the Colorado Springs police after a 2021 housing rights march that the police deemed “illegal.” The plaintiffs in the case, Jacqueline Armendariz and a local organization called the Chinook Center, argue these searches...

Deeplinks Blog by Catalina Sanchez, Adam Schwartz | September 3, 2024

Americans Are Uncomfortable with Automated Decision-Making

Imagine a company you recently applied to work at used an artificial intelligence program to analyze your application to help expedite the review process. Does that creep you out? Well, you’re not alone.Consumer Reports recently released a national survey finding that Americans are uncomfortable with use of artificial intelligence...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene, Eva Galperin | August 30, 2024

The French Detention: Why We're Watching the Telegram Situation Closely

EFF is closely monitoring the situation in France in which Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was charged with having committed criminal offenses, most of them seemingly related to the operation of Telegram. This situation has the potential to pose a serious danger to security, privacy, and freedom of expression for...

Deeplinks Blog by Mario Trujillo, Brendan Gilligan | August 30, 2024

The California Supreme Court Should Help Protect Your Stored Communications

When you talk to your friends and family on Snapchat or Facebook, you should have the assurance that those services will not freely disclose your communications to the government or other private parties.

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz, Tori Noble | August 28, 2024

Copyright Is Not a Tool to Silence Critics of Religious Education

Copyright law is not a tool to punish or silence critics. This is a principle so fundamental that it is the ur-example of fair use, which typically allows copying another’s creative work when necessary for criticism. But sometimes, unscrupulous rightsholders misuse copyright law to bully critics into silence by filing...

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NextNav’s Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz

We Called on the Oversight Board to Stop Censoring “From the River to the Sea” — And They Listened

Stopping the Harms of Automated Decision Making | EFFector 36.12

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety

You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public

EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions

U.S. Federal Employees: Plant Your Flag for Digital Freedoms Today!

EFF Calls For Release of Alexey Soldatov, "Father of the Russian Internet"

Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way

EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches

Americans Are Uncomfortable with Automated Decision-Making

The French Detention: Why We're Watching the Telegram Situation Closely

The California Supreme Court Should Help Protect Your Stored Communications

Copyright Is Not a Tool to Silence Critics of Religious Education

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