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Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger - 3 juillet 2020
When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing (...)
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Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers - 2 juillet 2020
COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.
The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking” or “workplace (...)
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Victory ! French High Court Rules That Most of Hate Speech Bill Would Undermine Free Expression - 21 juin 2020
Paris, France—In a victory for the free speech rights of French citizens, France’s highest court today struck down core provisions of a bill meant to curb hate speech, holding they would unconstitutionally sweep up legal speech.
The decision comes as some governments across the globe, in seeking to stop hateful, (...)
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Our EU Policy Principles : Interoperability - 21 juin 2020
As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In this post, we take a closer look at what we mean when we talk about interoperability obligations, and at some of the principles that (...)
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Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger : Your Stories Needed ! - 5 juin 2020
There’s a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley’s tech giants : it’s a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets ("mergers to monopoly") and acquisitions of small companies to neutralize future competitive (...)
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California Cops Can No Longer Pass the Cost of Digital Redaction onto Public Records Requesters - 2 juin 2020
At a dark time when the possibility of police accountability seems especially bleak, there is a new glimmer of light courtesy of the California Supreme Court. Under a new ruling, government agencies cannot pass the cost of redacting police body-camera footage and other digital public records onto the members of (...)
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California Prisons Block AI Researchers from Examining Parole Denials - 26 mai 2020
EFF Clients Want Access to Public Records on Race and Ethnicity in Parole Hearings
San Francisco - A team of researchers who want to develop a machine learning platform to help analyze and detect any patterns of bias in California parole-suitability decisions has been blocked for years by the state’s Department of (...)
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Understandable But Nonetheless Troubling : Facebook’s Ban On In-Person Events - 18 mai 2020
We’re closely watching how Facebook enforces its newly-announced policy that limits speech by users who are organizing public protests. This policy is deserving of special attention since it effects free expression on two levels : the organization of the protest itself, and the speech about it. This new policy adds (...)
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Street-Level Surveillance - 13 mai 2020
A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology
EFF’s “Street-Level Surveillance” project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are designed for members of the public, advocacy organizations, journalists, defense (...)
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Victory ! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital - 6 mai 2020
In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today roundly rejected Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily indebted for-profit entity. This is an important victory that recognizes the registry’s long legacy as a mission-based, (...)
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Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 20 avril 2020
Twitter greeted its users with a confusing notification this week. “The control you have over what information Twitter shares with its business partners has changed,” it said. The changes will “help Twitter continue operating as a free service,” it assured. But at what cost ?
What Changed ?
Twitter has changed what (...)
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Yes, Section 215 Expired. Now What ? | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 18 avril 2020
On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (...)
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How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight COVID-19 | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 12 avril 2020
As governments, the private sector, NGOs, and others mobilize to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen calls to use location information—typically drawn from GPS and cell tower data—to inform public health efforts. Among the proposed uses of location data, one of the most widely discussed is analyzing aggregated (...)
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Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19 | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 24 mars 2020
Governments around the world are demanding new dragnet location surveillance powers to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. But before the public allows their governments to implement such systems, governments must explain to the public how these systems would be effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. There’s no (...)
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COVID-19 and Digital Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 24 mars 2020
Many of our digital rights are impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). For example, public health authorities across the world are working to contain the spread of the virus by collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of people, including their health, travel, and personal (...)
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Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 22 mars 2020
In the current moment, governments may be tempted to funnel scarce public health resources into the use of face recognition to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health crises, especially a global pandemic, may require extraordinary measures in favor of the public good—but invasive face surveillance is not in (...)
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Announcing Who Has Your Face | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 20 mars 2020
The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But right now, at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases—often thanks to secretive agreements between state and federal government agencies—without any of us having opted in. (...)
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Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 14 mars 2020
Across the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary task, many government agencies are collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of identifiable people, including their health, travel, (...)
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Protect our Speech and Security Online : Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Proposal | EFF Action Center - 29 février 2020
Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are quietly circulating a serious threat to your free speech and security online. Their proposal would give the Attorney General the power to unilaterally write new rules for how online platforms and services must operate in order to rely on Section 230, the most (...)
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Schools Are Pushing the Boundaries of Surveillance Technologies | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 28 février 2020
A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students, and it is now one of a growing number of schools across the country conducting mass privacy violations of kids in the name of “safety.” The invasive use of surveillance technologies in schools has grown exponentially, (...)
