We are calling on the California legislature to approve Governor Newsom's just-announced $7 billion investment in public broadband infrastructure, which would give California one of the largest public broadband fiber networks in the country. eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
Laying infrastructure like this brings terabits of broadband capacity to unserved and underserved communities throughout the state. This plan will dramatically lower the cost to the communities themselves, who are in charge of developing their own, locally appropriate plans.
As we’ve noted in the past, national private ISPs have proven themselves unwilling to tackle the rural and low-income urban fiber challenge. It is time to embrace local options.
EFF strongly supports the Governor's broadband proposal. Running fiber networks are technically challenging, but with guidance, technical support, and financial backing from the state of California, 21st century fiber infrastructure is well within the reach of every community.
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Along with @ACLU, we have asked the Supreme Court to hear our challenge to the @DHSgov practice of warrantless and suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. This case is years in the making: eff.org/press/releases…
In Riley v. California (2014), a landmark victory for digital privacy, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment requires police officers to get a warrant before searching the cell phones of arrestees. eff.org/document/amicu…
In Riley, the Court reasoned that we have extraordinary privacy interests in the massive amount of sensitive information we carry in our cell phones. caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-cou…
What happens to FOIA requests that go unanswered?
They get nominated for our Golden Raspberry-style "awards" for officials who stand in the way of government transparency and freedom of information.
For the first time we're giving an award to a dog! When @twocatsand_docs asked whether Conan, the canine injured in a raid against the Islamic State, was a boy or a girl, the Defense Department could neither confirm nor deny the dog’s gender. eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
Another faux award goes out to the U.S. State Department for refusing to release records about former Sec. Pompeo's preferred sandwiches and pizza toppings. eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
Don’t be fooled: Google’s latest announcement on third-party cookies doesn’t mean it will stop tracking you. Thread. vox.com/recode/2021/3/…
Last week, Google announced that after phasing out third-party cookies, “we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor [] use them in our products.” That’s nice, but a far cry from not tracking you. blog.google/products/ads-c…
We’ve written about the problems with Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), one of Google’s proposals to replace tracking cookies for advertisers. But even without this new technology, Google’s post-cookie surveillance will be nearly as powerful as ever. eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
Last fall, Apple & Google took action against data broker X-Mode after we learned of its ties to US defense contractors. Last month, Google kicked another location data broker from its stores—Predicio. These moves help users, but they’re not enough. Thread.eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
The data brokers, X-Mode and Predicio, have each been the subject of reports over the past year that reveal how U.S. government agencies—including the Department of Defense and ICE—try to work around the 4th amendment by buying location data on the private market.
In 2018 the Supreme Court handed down US v. Carpenter, a landmark decision which ruled that location data collected from cell towers is protected by the 4th Amendment—meaning law enforcement can’t get your location from your cell carrier without a warrant.eff.org/cases/carpente…
The latest version of Firefox comes with "total cookie protection" built in. What does that mean? blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/…
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Normally, third-party trackers use cookies to identify you across different websites, allowing them to build invasive behavioral profiles. Firefox's new feature prevents trackers from seeing the same identifier on different sites, which makes it much harder to track you.
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Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection already blocked cookies for most known trackers. Total cookie protection will prevent anyone - even new or obscure trackers - from using cookies to follow you around.
For the first time, Twitter has applied its policy on "hateful" conduct against the LGBT community to a Turkish politician. This decision comes in the midst of discussions around Turkish draconian Social Media Law. 1/ reuters.com/article/turkey…
Turkey’s government has been working to control foreign social media platforms for many years. Under the new Social Media Law, failure to appoint a local representative leads to stiff fines, advertisement ban, and throttling of the provider’s bandwidth. 2/ eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
The Turkish Internet Law and amendments require large platforms to appoint a local representative, localize their data, and speed up the removal of content on-demand from the Turkish government. 3/ eff.org/deeplinks/2020…