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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..