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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows...
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Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | July 2, 2020

EFF Files Amicus Brief Arguing Geofence Warrants Violate the Fourth Amendment

 

Should the police be able to force Google to turn over identifying information on every phone within a certain geographic area—potentially hundreds or thousands of devices—just because a crime occurred there? We don’t think so. As we argued in an amicus brief filed recently in People v. Dawes, a...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | July 2, 2020

The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech

 

The day before a committee debate and vote on the EARN IT Act, the bill’s sponsors replaced their bill with an amended version. Here’s their new idea: instead of giving a 19-person federal commission, dominated by law enforcement, the power to regulate the Internet, the bill now effectively gives...

Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock | July 2, 2020

Google's AMP, the Canonical Web, and the Importance of Web Standards

 

Have you ever clicked on a link after googling something, only to find that Google didn’t take you to the actual webpage but to some weird Google-fied version of it? Instead of the web address being the source of the article, it still says “google” in the address bar on...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | July 2, 2020

Amazon’s Ring Enables the Over-Policing Efforts of Some of America’s Deadliest Law Enforcement Agencies

 

Ring, Amazon’s “smart” doorbell camera company, recently began sharing statistics on how many video requests police departments submit to users, and the numbers are staggering. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, police requested videos over 5000 times, using their partnerships with the company to email users directly and ask...

Press Release | July 2, 2020

Hundreds of Police Departments with Deadly Histories Partner with Amazon’s Ring Surveillance Cameras

 

San Francisco – Research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows that hundreds of U.S. police departments with deadly histories have official partnerships with Amazon’s Ring—a home-surveillance company that makes it easy to send video footage to law enforcement. Ring sells networked cameras, often bundled with doorbells or lighting...

 

Deeplinks Blog by Bennett Cyphers, Karen Gullo | June 30, 2020

Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers

 

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 analytics”...