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Security Professionals Scoff at Trump’s Position on Privacy

Attendants of this year’s RSA Conference—an event drawing thousands of digital security professionals, cryptographers, engineers, as well as tech companies and intelligence agencies looking to recruit—expressed skepticism of President Trump’s commitment to privacy.
Silicon Valley’s response to President Donald Trump has been famously chilly. Tech leaders are organizing...

10th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night

Each summer, the Bay Area’s best legal minds gather in support of online freedom - and in pursuit of the highly coveted EFF Cyberlaw Quiz Cup. This year, we want to extend a very special invitation to you as we celebrate our 10th annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night on Friday, June...

Inaugural Tech Trivia Night

On Thursday, June 1, developers and technologists from across the Bay Area will gather for EFF's inaugural Tech Trivia Night!
EFF's team of technology experts have already started crafting challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial aspects of digital security, online rights, and Internet culture. Competing teams will...

Members-Only Speakeasy: Workshop and Key-Signing Party


EFF invites Bay Area members and their friends to get off the sidelines on April 25 and join the data privacy team!
FIRST HALF: PGP Workshop
The evening kicks off at 6 pm with an advanced workshop on email encryption with EFF's Lisa Wright and Tom...

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One Million Badgers

This week—for the first time ever—Privacy Badger has surpassed one million users. Privacy Badger is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera that automatically blocks hidden third-party trackers that would otherwise follow you around the web and spy on your browsing habits.
Third-party tracking—that is, when advertisers...

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UPDATE: Verizon Software on Android Phones

UPDATE: We have received additional information from Verizon and based on that information we are withdrawing this post while we investigate further. Here is the statement from Kelly Crummey, Director of Corporate Communications of Verizon: "As we said earlier this week, we are testing AppFlash to make app discovery better...

EFF Says No to So-Called “Moral Rights” Copyright Expansion

Thanks to the First Amendment and longstanding copyright limitations, copyright holders don’t have the legal right to prevent others from using their works to express messages that they disagree with or find offensive, nor do they have a right to prevent someone who lawfully purchases a copy of their work...

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