Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs
“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself.” — www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/chris- k... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker.com : Electr...
The EFF, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and others file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional
Electronic Frontier Foundation :
Analysis: 16 smartphone apps used as ankle monitor alternatives in the US access wide swaths of information, contain third-party trackers, and are unreliable
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Source: USENIX . Tweets: @techloreistaken and @eff Source: USENIX : Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps: An Analysis of Risks from Technical, Human-Centered, and Le...
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
Justice Department Appeals Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago David McCabe / New York Times : A federal court clears the way for a Texas social media law. Rebecca Kern /...
Facebook is attacking privacy with its anti-Apple campaign and has locked SMBs into a surveillance-powered advertising model that's invasive of customers
they worked their way into being the privacy co. and it's paid off — but doubling down on this particular argument seems like a really bad move for Facebook, doesn't it? https://www.eff.org/... @hyper...
The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff Tweets: @eff : In a democracy, the state can't take over private organizations and replace their boards with political appointees. That's what the admini...
Federal district court in SF rules in favor of EFF's FOIA lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security Letters
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff and @eff Tweets: @eff : Victory! Court orders FBI to disclose names of companies that have received NSL termination notices. @eff : Victory: Court reject...
No evidence exists of bias in platforms' content moderation, and the First Amendment and Section 230 apply whether or not moderation is “politically neutral”
Electronic Frontier Foundation :
Seventh Circuit rules 3-0 that energy-consumption data collected by smart meters is covered by the 4th Amendment
Jamie Williams / Electronic Frontier Foundation :
GDPR means firms using browser fingerprinting, which makes tracking virtually impossible to control, have to back up claims that doing so is in users' interest
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff , @torproject , and @eff Tweets: @eff : Thanks to the GDPR, companies using browser and web fingerprinting will have to do what their predecessors in the...