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EFFECTOR 37.2 - Fresh Threats to Privacy Around the Globe

Since 1990 EFF has published EFFector to help keep readers on the bleeding edge of their digital rights. We know that the intersection of technology, civil liberties, human rights, and the law can be complicated, so EFFector is a great way to stay on top of things. The newsletter is chock full of links to updates, announcements, blog posts, and other stories to help keep readers—and listeners—up to date on the movement to protect online privacy and free expression. 

EFF asked the California Supreme Court not to weaken the Stored Communications Act, a 1986 federal law that restricts how providers can disclose the content of your communications to the government or private parties.

The law is built on the principle that you have a reasonable expectation of privacy that providers like Snap and Meta will not disclose your communications to third parties, even though the providers have access to those communications as they are stored on their systems. In an amicus brief, we urged the court to uphold these privacy protections, as they have for the past 40 years. EFF filed the brief along with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Mozilla Corporation.

A lower court decision got it wrong. And we are urging the California Supreme Court to overrule that decision. If the lower court's ruling is affirmed, Meta, Snap, and other providers would be permitted to voluntarily disclose the content of their users' communications to any other corporation, the government, or any individual for any reason.

We previously helped successfully urge the California Supreme Court to hear this case. 

7amleh, in collaboration with the Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition and dozens of international organisations, has launched #ReconnectGaza, a global campaign to demand the rebuilding of Gaza’s…

Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings.  

The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner.  

Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights.  

Flock Safety’s car-tracking cameras have been spreading across the United States like an invasive species, preying on public safety fears and gobbling up massive amounts of sensitive driver data. The technology not only tracks vehicles by their license plates, but also creates “fingerprints” of each vehicle, including the make, model, color and other distinguishing features. This is a mass surveillance technology that collects information on everyone, regardless of whether they are connected to a crime. It has been misused by police to spy on their ex-partners and could be used to target people engaged in First Amendment activities or seeking medical care.  

Through crowdsourcing and open-source research, DeFlock.me aims to “shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.”  While EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance project has identified more than 1,700 agencies using ALPRs, DeFlock has mapped out more than 16,000 individual camera locations, more than a third of which are Flock Safety devices.  

Flock Safety is so integrated into law enforcement, it’s not uncommon to see law enforcement agencies actually promoting the company by name on their websites. The Sussex County Sheriff’s website in Virginia has only two items in its menu bar: Accident Reports and Flock Safety. The name “DeFlock,” EFF told the vendor, represents the project’s goal of “ending ALPR usage and Flock’s status as one of the most widely used ALPR providers.” It’s accurate, appropriate, effective, and most importantly, legally protected.  

 We wrote:  

Your claims of dilution by blurring and/or tarnishment fail at the threshold, without even needing to address why dilution is unlikely. Federal anti-dilution law includes express carve-outs for any noncommercial use of a mark and for any use in connection with criticizing or commenting on the mark owner or its products. Mr. Freeman’s use of the name “DeFlock” is both.

Flock Safety’s cease and desist later is just the latest in a long list of groups turning to bogus intellectual property claims to silence their critics. Frequently, these have no legal basis and are designed to frighten under-resourced activists and advocacy groups with high-powered law firm letterheads. EFF is here to stand up against these trademark bullies, and in the case of Flock Safety, flip them the bird.  

北海岸の州都キンベの少し東にあるブルマ村では、かつて日商岩井の現地法人SBLCの木材の積み出し港があった。森と海に囲まれた村は、すぐ隣にSBLCの拠点ができたため、水場は汚染され、木材を燃やす排気ガスに苦しめられ、海は汚染されて魚介類はいなくなった。

　公職選挙法改正案が国会に提出された。背景には昨春行われた東京15区衆院補選以降における選挙の混乱がある。だが議論の成り行きを見ていると、その内容がどうも本質からずれているような気がしてならない。　補選やその後の都知事選、兵庫県知事選で何が起きたのかは、ここでは繰り返さない。しかし、法令に書いてなければ何をやってもオーライという風潮がまん延したことは、だれもが感じているところではないか。そこから公選法の見直しを、という声が出てくるのは当然でもあろう。　だが今のところ、国会で出..

Rockwell Automationが提供するPowerFlex 755には、重要な情報の平文送信の脆弱性が存在します。

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a public commitment on February 14 to Laila Soueif, the mother of Alaa Abd El Fattah, stating “I will do all that I can to secure the release of her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah and reunite him with his family.” While that commitment was welcomed by the family, it is imperative that it now be followed up with concrete action.

Laila has called on PM Starmer to speak directly to President Sisi of Egypt. Starmer has written to Sisi twice, in December and January, and his National Security Adviser, Jonathan Powell, discussed Alaa with Egyptian authorities in Cairo on January 2. UK authorities have not made public any further contact with Egypt since.

“all she wants is for [Alaa] to be free now that he served the full five year sentence, and after they stole 11 years of his and [his son] Khaled’s life.”

Laila, who has been on hunger strike since Alaa’s intended release date in September, was hospitalized on Monday night after her blood sugar dropped to worrying new levels. A letter published today from her NHS doctor states that there is now immediate risk to her life including further deterioration or death. Nevertheless, Laila remains steadfast in her commitment to refrain from eating until her son is freed.

In the words of Alaa’s sister Mona Seif: “all she wants is for [Alaa] to be free now that he served the full five year sentence, and after they stole 11 years of his and [his son] Khaled’s life.”

Alaa is a British citizen, and as such his government owes him more than mere lip service. The UK government can and must use every tactic available to them, including:

• Changing travel advice on the Foreign Office’s website to reflect the fact that citizens arrested in Egypt cannot be guaranteed consular access
• Convening a joint meeting of ministers and officials of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Ministry of Defence; and Department of Business and Trade to discuss a unified strategy toward Alaa’s case
• Summoning the Egyptian ambassador in London and restricting his access to Whitehall if Alaa is not released and returned to the UK
• Announcing a moratorium on any governmental assistance or promotion of new Foreign Direct Investments into Egypt, as called for by 15 NGOs in November.

EFF once again calls on Prime Minister Starmer to pick up the phone and call Egyptian President Sisi to free Alaa and save Laila—before it’s too late.

プラネックスコミュニケーションズ株式会社が提供する無線LANルータには、複数の脆弱性が存在します。

Congress is pushing a dangerous internet censorship bill, the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146/H.R.633), and we need your help to stop it. While this bill claims to fight the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), it is deeply flawed and will lead to suppression of legal content, weaken encryption, and undermine free speech online.

Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.” 

Protecting victims of these heinous privacy invasions is a legitimate goal. But good intentions alone are not enough to make good policy. As currently drafted, the TAKE IT DOWN Act mandates a notice-and-takedown system that threatens free expression, user privacy, and due process, without addressing the problem it claims to solve. 

This misguided bill can still be stopped in the House of Representatives. Help us speak out against it now. 

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"Take It Down" Has No real Safeguards  

Before this vote, EFF, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), Authors Guild, Demand Progress Action, Fight for the Future, Freedom of the Press Foundation, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, Restore The Fourth, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, TechFreedom, and Woodhull Freedom Foundation, sent a letter to the Senate, asking them to change this legislation to protect legitimate speech that is not NCII. Changes are also needed to protect users who rely on encrypted services.

The letter explains that the bill’s “takedown” provision applies to a much broader category of content—potentially any images involving intimate or sexual content at all—than the narrower NCII definitions found elsewhere in the bill. The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored. The legislation requires that apps and websites remove content within 48 hours, meaning that online service providers, particularly smaller ones, will have to comply so quickly to avoid legal risk that they won’t be able to verify claims

This would likely lead to the use of often-inaccurate automated filters that are infamous for flagging legal content, from fair-use commentary to news reporting. Communications providers that offer users end-to-end encrypted messaging, meanwhile, may be served with notices they simply cannot comply with, given the fact that these providers cannot view the contents of messages on their platforms. Platforms may respond by abandoning encryption entirely in order to be able to monitor content—turning private conversations into surveilled spaces. 

Congress should focus on enforcing and improving the many existing civil and criminal laws that address NCII, rather than opting for a broad takedown regime that is bound to be abused. Tell your Member of Congress to oppose censorship and to oppose S. 146. 

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Tell the house to stop "Take it down" 

Further reading:

• EFF and allies letter opposing S. 146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act. 

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