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Increasing competition will not fix all the problems with online platforms—but it is one of the few strategies that has the promise of opening up space for innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants
FOSTA is "casting great uncertainty" on whether health and human rights advocacy for sex workers is illegal, says EFF's @DavidGreene. And that seems "completely purposeful by Congress."
https://theappeal.org/broad-anti-trafficking-law-faces-its-first-constitutional-challenge/
Let's go crazy: To celebrate the end of a case that's been in court for over a decade, we turned the famous 29-second clip of the baby dancing to music by Prince into a ten hour video. https://youtu.be/oajltHXLcjE
"The government would love to get access...to track people and match families who are living undocumented inside the United States," says EFF Senior Staff Attorney @lynch_jen about the dark side of potential plans to use DNA data to reunite families. https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/immigration-families-dna-testing/
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It's @xyz's birthday, and they will donate $1 to EFF for each .xyz domain renewed or registered in June. Do you—or a friend—need a new domain or a domain renewed? This is a good time to do it! https://gen.xyz/birthday/
Want to read more about our FOSTA challenge?
We've posted all of the preliminary injunction papers, including declarations from @alexflevy @MehlmanOrozco @Kate & Dr. Alix Lutnick on our Woodhull Freedom Foundation et al v. US case page https://www.eff.org/cases/woodhull-freedom-foundation-et-al-v-united-states
If there were real alternatives to the big tech giants, users could vote with their feet by leaving a platform or service that isn’t working for them.
That freedom to choose is vital to free speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants
Right now, faulty facial recognition systems used by law enforcement could “implicate people for crimes they didn’t commit and shift the burden to innocent defendants to show they are not who the system says they are,” says EFF’s Jen Lynch. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/ai-has-a-race-problem
Californians: tell your assemblymember to restore #NetNeutrality to #SB822 https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=10738
Our Stupid Patent of the Month comes from an alleged cult leader who managed to patent "improving performance" on a treadmill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/stupid-patent-month-alleged-cult-leader-wants-improve-performance
Our lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against FOSTA—@WoodhullSFA—vehemently opposes sex trafficking. Unfortunately, their harm reduction efforts could, under the law, be seen as "facilitating prostitution."
Consumer Reports found various, significant issues with Facebook's privacy settings—months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/cr-researchers-find-facebook-privacy-settings-maximize-data-collection/
FOSTA's expansions of federal criminal law are fraught with vague and ambiguous terms that create great uncertainty about what online speech is illegal, including speech by those vehemently opposed to sex trafficking
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eff-sues-invalidate-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law
When a YouTube clip with a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed by Universal back in 2007, even we would not have predicted it would result in a decade-long court battle. Congratulations to our client, Stephanie Lenz. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move
RT @eff: Wondering what you can do to help stop the passage of #Article13 and #Article11 in the EU? EFF's @mala and Member of Parliament @s…
The UK's Stephen Fry has some rather strong words to say about #Article13: Tell your MEP to vote against it next week! https://saveyourcopyright.eu https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1012363805714714624
RT @eff: FOSTA is the most comprehensive censorship of Internet speech in America in the last 20 years.
We are asking the court to block e…
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