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Proposed New Internet Law in Mauritius Raises Serious Human Rights Concerns - 3 mai 2021
As debate continues in the U.S. and Europe over how to regulate social media, a number of countries—such as India and Turkey—have imposed stringent rules that threaten free speech, while others, such as Indonesia, are considering them. Now, a new proposal to amend Mauritius’ Information and Communications (...)
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Forced Arbitration Thwarts Legal Challenge to AT&T’s Disclosure of Customer Location Data - 16 avril 2021
Location data generated from our cell phones paint an incredibly detailed picture of our movements and private lives. Despite the sensitive nature of this data and a federal law prohibiting cellphone carriers from disclosing it, repeated unauthorized disclosures over the last several years show that carriers will (...)
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Dystopia Prime : Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance - 7 avril 2021
Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both (...)
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553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy - 7 avril 2021
Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next : Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to make more decisions about our data to protect against them. If history is any indication, that’ll (...)
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Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene ? - 5 avril 2021
Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits and users spoke out. Governments expressed alarm, and ICANN (the entity in charge of the internet’s (...)
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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. - 3 avril 2021
Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome : those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group (...)
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Scholars Under Surveillance : How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students - 12 mars 2021
It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement.
A fear of school shootings, and other campus crimes, have led administrators and campus police to install (...)
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Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes - 11 mars 2021
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare (...)
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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea - 8 mars 2021
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.
No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web ; phasing out (...)
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Some Answers to Questions About the State of Copyright in 2021 - 8 février 2021
In all the madness that made up the last month of 2020, a number of copyright bills and proposals popped up—some even became law before most people had any chance to review them. So now that the dust has settled a little and we have some better idea what the landscape is going to look like, it is time to answer a (...)
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San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance - 3 février 2021
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies.
The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF (...)
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Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance - 25 janvier 2021
The City of Oakland, California, has once again raised the bar on community control of police surveillance. Last week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city’s already groundbreaking Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance. The latest amendment, which immediately went into effect, adds (...)
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So-called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights - 18 janvier 2021
Imagine this scenario : You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you provide your license and registration, the officer catches you off guard by asking : “Since you’ve got nothing to hide, you don’t mind unlocking your phone for me, do you ?” Of course, you don’t want the (...)
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It’s Business As Usual At WhatsApp - 17 janvier 2021
WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using the app. At first users were required to agree by February 8th, but after widespread controversy WhatsApp has announced it will delay that date to May 15.
The good (...)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. (...)
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EFF’s Response to Social Media Companies’ Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts - 10 janvier 2021
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who (...)
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Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability - 7 janvier 2021
Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015’s Senate Bill 741 (Cal. Govt. Code § 53166). Judge Bradley’s order brought (...)
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Snowden : "We Can Fix a Broken System" - 27 décembre 2020
Below is a message from whistleblower Edward Snowden. His revelations about secret surveillance programs opened the world’s eyes to a new level of government misconduct, and reinvigorated EFF’s continuing work in the courts and with lawmakers to end unlawful mass spying.
EFF is grateful to Ed for his support in our (...)
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The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle - 23 décembre 2020
As we feared, the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act”—the CASE Act—that we’ve been fighting in various forms for two years has been included in a "must-pass" spending bill. This new legislation means Internet users could face up to $30,000 in penalties for sharing a meme or making a video, with (...)
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Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses - 22 décembre 2020
Facebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of small businesses. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook to distract you from its poor track record of anticompetitive behavior and privacy issues as it tries to derail pro-privacy changes from Apple that are bad for Facebook’s (...)
