The #CopyrightDirective is back and - incredibly - even worse. The European Parliament must reject this nightmare. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/german-government-abandons-small-businesses-worst-parts-eu-copyright-directive
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 19:50:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation .@IBM is eager to roll back important limits on US patent laws. Take a look at our Stupid Patent of the Month to understand why. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/stupid-patent-month-ibms-software-patent-texting-and-driving
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 19:30:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation If proposed legislation in Brazil is successful, a tweet in favor of hacking, or actions connected to protests or strikes, could lead to long jail sentences, threatening both free speech and privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/brazil-2019-free-speech-and-privacy-crosshairs-what-are-threats
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jan-2019 12:10:05 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Germany: Here's how to tell your representatives to oppose #Article11 and #Article13: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/germans-can-save-internet-copyright-directive
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 20:00:08 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Already a privacy superstar? Take the opportunity to talk to your friends and family. While there are many steps you can take to protect your own privacy, the real protection comes when we recognize that privacy is a team sport. </thread>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/data-privacy-day-play-privacy-team-sport
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 16:20:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation And where in here did Facebook users have a chance to say, “I don’t want low-quality spam ads, but that doesn’t mean I want you to track me across the Internet”? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/wsj-op-ed-mark-zuckerberg-speaks-down-users-and-misses-point https://t.co/DZPgzU32Eq
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 14:50:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Thanks to @asos for their fast response—that their initial letter should never have been sent. We welcome the apology and hope that this case serves as an example to others who might send careless or overbroad trademark threats. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/eff-client-responds-ludicrous-collusion-trademark-threat
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 16:00:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Copyright terms that enrich a tiny number of great-grandchildren at the expense of cultural preservation are a bad deal. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/public-domain-back-it-still-needs-defenders
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2018 20:50:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation DRM keeps you from truly owning the tech products that you buy, and @AdamRuins explains how in this short video—complete with holographic EFF Staff Attorney @prilkit https://youtu.be/3JgcbtxURA4
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Dec-2018 02:00:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation With little debate and the support of the main opposition party, Australia has passed a law that will subvert Internet security and demolish user trust. What happens now? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Dec-2018 20:40:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Facebook doesn't *sell* your data—because it doesn't have to.
Instead, these documents shed new light on the many other ways Facebook monetizes your information and attention.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-documents-show-facebook
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 14:50:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Thanks to the generosity of @mcsweeneys and the authors, The End of Trust is also free to download under a @creativecommons BY-NC-ND license. https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Nov-2018 11:00:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation 2.5 Billion.
That's how many license plates these 200 law enforcement agencies scanned in 2016-2017. https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-reader-dataset
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 18:00:03 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation For 28 years, EFF's EFFector newsletter has chronicled the rise of the digital rights movement. Check out our archives going back all the way to 1990.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Oct-2018 22:10:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation Over 80 grassroots groups across the U.S. are working to inform, inspire, and mobilize their local communities to defend digital rights, from #NetNeutrality to privacy to limits on police surveillance. You’re not alone. https://www.eff.org/electronic-frontier-alliance/allies
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 18:00:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation From @TheEconomist on #RepairDay: "In a disposable society, to repair is to rebel."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 11:20:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation The facts are corroborated: the NSA conducted mass surveillance of innocent Americans’ private communications for years. It’s time we got a real chance to hold the government accountable for this violation of privacy.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 16:40:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation A group of organizations, advocates, and academics—including @eff—came together in February to create the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation. We're happy to announce that the Principles now have a permanent home:https://santaclaraprinciples.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 11:20:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Alliance includes @OaklandPrivacy, whose member @b_haddy notes that "we’re in this indiscriminate, frankly ridiculous trend towards mass surveillance, and we need to work hard before it’s too late, before we can’t oppose it at all.” https://www.thenation.com/article/mass-surveillance-begins-at-the-local-level-so-does-the-resistance-to-it/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 20:40:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation BREAKING: #NetNeutrality is now law in California. https://t.co/yF5L33UXPF
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