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Copyright rules are made with the needs of the entertainment industry in mind, designed to provide the legal framework for creators, investors, distributors, production houses, and other parts of the industry to navigate their disputes and assert their interests.
Continue reading “In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis”
None of us signed up for an Internet composed of “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four”, but here we are, watching as hyper-concentrated industries rack up catastrophic victories against net neutrality, right to repair, security auditing, and a host of other issues.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just hired two new staffers focused on the EU: Icelandic poet, artist, and free expression activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir, and European Internet policy expert Christoph Schmon.
Continue reading “EFF announces major new EU focus and two amazing new hires”
This week, I’ve been doing our family’s annual charitable giving (here’s a guide to some of the charities we support), a long process that involves using Charity Navigator to verify that the groups we support are still spending money effectively, figuring out how much to give, and then submitting the receipts to my wife’s employer for donation-matching.
Continue reading “Double your EFF donation with POWER UP!”
In 2006, Aaron Patzer founded Mint. Patzer had grown up in the city of Evansville, Indiana—a place he described as “small, without much economic opportunity”—but had created a successful business building websites. He kept up the business through college and grad school and invested his profits in stocks and other assets, leading to a minor obsession with personal finance that saw him devoting hours every Saturday morning to manually tracking every penny he’d spent that week, transcribing his receipts into Microsoft Money and Quicken.
Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched About Face, a new national campaign to end governmental use of facial recognition technology for surveillance at all levels — city, state and federal.
Continue reading “About Face: EFF’s new campaign to end government use of face surveillance”
Back in 2017, EFF, ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts sued the US government on behalf of 11 travelers whose devices had been subjected to warrantless, suspicionless searches by Customs and Border Protection at the US border.
Continue reading “EFF and ACLU triumph as federal judge rules that warrantless, suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal”
Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of “network effects.” For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook, you can’t be convinced to use another, superior service, because all the people you’d use that service to talk to are still on Facebook. And of course, those people also can’t leave Facebook, because you’re still there.
Continue reading “alt.interoperability.adversarial”
Berkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government’s use of facial recognition technology, after a unanimous city council vote.
Continue reading “Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology”
One of the coolest initiatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a network of autonomous community groups that work on local issues with support from each other and EFF: everything from getting facial recognition banned in their communities to forcing local police departments to seek public comment on new surveillance tech initiatives.
Continue reading “EFF is hiring a community organizer!”
