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The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Peter Eckersley writes: Yesterday, The New York Times reported that there is widespread unrest amongst Google’s employees about the company’s work on a U.S. military project called “Project Maven.” Google has claime… Continue reading EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems
An anonymous reader writes:
The EFF is announcing “a celebration of the life and leadership of the recently departed founder of EFF, John Perry Barlow,” to be held next Saturday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco from 2:00 to 6:00. The event will… Continue reading The EFF Hosts a ‘John Perry Barlow Symposium’ Next Saturday
The CLOUD Act is highly unpopular, but it passed, because Congress is dysfunctional. Continue reading Congress Enacts Garbage Surveillance Legislation By Attaching it to Must-Pass Budget Bill
An anonymous reader quotes the public records reporter from North Carolina TV station WRAL:
In at least four investigations last year — cases of murder, sexual battery and even possible arson at the massive downtown fire in March 2017 — Raleigh polic… Continue reading North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Medium: Lawmakers behind a new anti-privacy bill are trying to sneak it through Congress by attaching it to the must-pass government spending bill. The CLOUD Act would hand police in the U.S., and other countrie… Continue reading New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police
TorrentFreak: As entertainment companies and Internet services spar over the boundaries of copyright law, the EFF is urging the US Copyright Office to keep “copyright’s safe harbors safe.” In a petition just filed with the office, the EFF warns that in… Continue reading EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive ‘Piracy’ Filters
Companies around the globe are scrambling to comply with new European privacy regulations that take effect a little more than three months from now. But many security experts are worried that the changes being ushered in by the rush to adhere to the law may make it more difficult to track down cybercriminals and less likely that organizations will be willing to share data about new online threats.
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect. The law, enacted by the European Parliament, requires technology companies to get affirmative consent for any information they collect on people within the European Union. Organizations that violate the GDPR could face fines of up to four percent of global annual revenues. Continue reading New EU Privacy Law May Weaken Security
John Perry Barlow, founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation, died on February 7th, 2018. To say that he left his mark on the Internet, and by extension modern culture, is something of an understatement. He may not be a household name, but between this activism (online and off), lectures, written work, and various entrepreneurial projects, his 70 years of life were surely not wasted. Barlow was once quoted as saying “I want to be a good ancestor”, and by pretty much any metric it would seem he made good on that goal.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that its founder, John Perry Barlow, has passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. He was 70 years old. From the report: It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love … Continue reading EFF Founder John Perry Barlow Has Died At Age 70
The now-rejected SB-712 bill was meant to protect location data privacy from the spying electronic eyes of automated license plate readers Continue reading California says no, you can’t cover your license plate