Collaborate Disseminate
Seven years ago, Slashdot reader #66,542 announced “Panopticlick 2.0,” a site showing how your web browser handles trackers.
But it was just one of the many privacy-protecting projects Peter Eckersley worked on, as a staff technologist at the EFF for… Continue reading Peter Eckersley, Co-Creator of Let’s Encrypt, Dies at 43
This site, like millions of others, has a certificate from Let’s Encrypt. Farewell, Peter Eckersley, PhD, who helped make it all possible. Continue reading Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43
“Today at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we’re celebrating 32 years of fighting for technology users around the world,” reads a new announcement posted at EFF.org:
If you were online back in the 90s, you might remember that it was pretty wild. We… Continue reading ‘Toward a Future We Want to Live In’ – EFF Celebrates 32nd Birthday
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Copyright law cannot be used as a shortcut around the First Amendment’s strong protections for anonymous internet users, a federal trial court ruled on Tuesday. The decision b… Continue reading Court Rules DMCA Does Not Override First Amendment’s Anonymous Speech Protections
Last summer, the San Francisco police illegally used surveillance cameras at the George Floyd protests. The EFF is suing the police:
This surveillance invaded the privacy of protesters, targeted people of color, and chills and deters participation and organizing for future protests. The SFPD also violated San Francisco’s new Surveillance Technology Ordinance. It prohibits city agencies like the SFPD from acquiring, borrowing, or using surveillance technology, without prior approval from the city’s Board of Supervisors, following an open process that includes public participation. Here, the SFPD went through no such process before spying on protesters with this network of surveillance cameras…
Continue reading San Francisco Police Illegally Spying on Protesters
The Washington Post asks what may be the ultimate question of our times. “Whether the largest social media companies have become so critical to public debate that being banned or blacklisted by them — whether you’re an elected official, a disside… Continue reading Are Social Media Companies Censoring Us? Is It Ever Justified?
76-year-old John Gilmore co-founded the EFF in 1990, and in the 31 years since he’s “provided leadership and guidance on many of the most important digital rights issues we advocate for today,” the EFF said in a statement Friday.
“But in recent years… Continue reading EFF Board of Directors Removes 76-Year-Old John Gilmore
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million, and vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate the “hackers” and anyone who aided the publication in its “attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.” Continue reading Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability
EFF.org has the story:
For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto devices. This software poses an enormous danger to pr… Continue reading Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple’s Headquarters
Apple’s plans to scan users’ iCloud Photos library against a database of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to look for matches and childrens’ messages for explicit content has come under fire from privacy whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Electroni… Continue reading Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple’s Plans To Scan Messages and iCloud Images