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Deeplinks Blog by Starchy Grant | May 22, 2012

EFF is Joining the Transition to IPv6

EFF is proud to participate in World IPv6 Launch Day on June 6, 2012.
It is a testament to the enduring success and growing importance of the Internet that the original space of over four billion addresses has effectively been exhausted. Workarounds are in...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue | May 22, 2012

EFF's New DEF CON 20 T-Shirt

In the ongoing effort to bring you cool things that support important civil liberties issues, EFF is happy to unveil our third annual DEF CON hacker conference t-shirt featuring the dangerous, and yet cuddly Script Kitty. He hacks, he glows, and he demands coders' rights.Our spokeskitten shows that,...

Deeplinks Blog by Parker Higgins | May 21, 2012

The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under which ISPs can cut...

Deeplinks Blog by Katitza Rodriguez | May 18, 2012

Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in December in Dubai, an all-important treaty-writing event where ITU Member States will discuss the proposed revisions to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR). The ITU is a United Nations agency responsible for international...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin | May 18, 2012

Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens

According to a recent investigation by the Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning, Sweden’s telecommunications giant Teliasonera is the latest Western company revealed to be colluding with authoritarian regimes by selling them high-tech surveillance gear to spy on its citizens. Teliasonera has allegedly enabled the governments of Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan,...

Deeplinks Blog by Trevor Timm | May 18, 2012

Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US

A series of events in the last two weeks have set the stage for how surveillance drones will be operated by local law enforcement in the United States and how citizens can demand privacy protections as domestic use escalates.
As EFF has previously reported, Congress passed a bill...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Bowe | May 17, 2012

EFF Joins Coalition Denouncing Secretive WCIT Planning Process

Civil Society Seeks Access to Planning Documents for Secret Negotiations Around Internet Regulation
An upcoming treaty renegotiation process could prove to have dire implications for digital civil rights. As we have explained, the World Conference on International Telecommunications – "WCIT" for short, pronounced “wicket” by insiders –...

Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | May 17, 2012

With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track

Under a new policy announced today, Twitter will be suggesting accounts for Twitter users to follow based on data collected from an individual’s browsing habits on websites that have embedded Twitter buttons. While this is sure to garner scrutiny from the press and public, Twitter is also taking...

Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | May 16, 2012

U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality - State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review

Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee today. (Press Release). At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had authority to enter into the controversial...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin | May 15, 2012

This Week in Internet Censorship: India, Iran, Brazil, Russia, and More

Iran Continues March Towards “Halal Internet”
This past weekend, Iran’s minister of telecommunications announced that domestic institutions including banks, telecom companies, insurance firms, and universities are now prohibited from dealing with emails that do not come from an “.ir” domain name. This means that customers who use foreign email...

Deeplinks Blog by Maira Sutton | May 14, 2012

TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week

The U.S. content industry will try anything to preserve its profit margin and power over the creative content market at the expense of the Internet. They will use any tactic that circumvents democratic processes to make new rules for the Internet that favor their interests and not the interests of...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | May 14, 2012

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulations to allow collection...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Rebecca Bowe | May 11, 2012

Global Network Initiative Gets an Inside Look at Tech Firms’ Human Rights Practices

On April 18, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) released its annual report documenting third-party assessments conducted in 2011 and 2012 for GNI’s three founding corporate participants: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. GNI was formed to bring major Internet companies together with human rights organizations to improve practices around human rights, privacy...

Deeplinks Blog by Hanni Fakhoury | May 11, 2012

NY Twitter Decision Fails to Recognize Content and Location Data Require a Warrant

A New York judge's broad opinion, ordering Twitter to comply with a subpoena (PDF) and turn over account information about one of its users arrested for disorderly conduct in connection with an Occupy Wall Street protest, is worse the deeper you dig into it.
The...

Deeplinks Blog by Rebecca Bowe | May 11, 2012

And the Privacy Invasion Award Goes To …

Who’s playing fast and loose with your data? The Big Brother Awards, billed as the “Oscars for data leeches” by the hackers and privacy advocates who hand out the prizes, shine a high-intensity spotlight on companies and individuals with poor privacy track records. Since 1998, Privacy International and...

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EFF is Joining the Transition to IPv6

EFF's New DEF CON 20 T-Shirt

The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals

Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens

Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US

EFF Joins Coalition Denouncing Secretive WCIT Planning Process

With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track

U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality - State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review

This Week in Internet Censorship: India, Iran, Brazil, Russia, and More

TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week

DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do

Global Network Initiative Gets an Inside Look at Tech Firms’ Human Rights Practices

NY Twitter Decision Fails to Recognize Content and Location Data Require a Warrant

And the Privacy Invasion Award Goes To …

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