Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 11

DRM can force farmers to hack their tractors just so they can repair them. #IDAD https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

DRM can stop us from repairing, modifying, and testing the security of our vehicles. #IDAD https://www.wired.com/2015/01/let-us-hack-our-cars/

RT @eff: Excelente episodio de @radioambulante sobre la historia de Diego Gómez, el estudiante colombiano acusado penalmente por compartir…

Over the last two years, the Egyptian government has targeted digital rights defenders, journalists, crusaders against sexual harassment, and even poets.
This law allows them to target and persecute just about anyone who uses digital technology. https://www.accessnow.org/statement-opposing-egypts-legalization-of-website-blocking-and-communications-surveillance-2/

The First Amendment lets the US gov't regulate dirty words on broadcast radio and TV—but not on the Internet. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/yes-you-can-name-website-fucknazisus

As we've seen with #NetNeutrality in the USA, the movement to protect the free and open Internet has widespread popular support and can turn into a potential third rail for politicians. (5/6) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/net-neutrality-senate.html

Article 12a: No posting your own photos or videos of sports matches. You are the audience, your job is to sit where you're told, passively watch the game, and go home. (4/6)

#Article11: Linking to the news using more than one word from the article is prohibited unless you're using a service that bought a license from the news site you want to link to. (3/6) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/not-our-name-why-european-creators-should-oppose-eus-proposal-limit-linking-and

#Article13: the Copyright Filters. All but the smallest platforms will have to defensively adopt copyright filters that examine everything you post, and censor anything judged to be a copyright infringement. (2/6) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/how-eus-copyright-filters-will-make-it-trivial-anyone-censor-internet

Today Members of the European Parliament adopted three terrible proposals in the new #CopyrightDirective and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the Internet. (1/6) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back

This week, California proved the fight for #NetNeutrality isn't even close to over. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/you-did-it-california-net-neutrality-passes-state-assembly

Hey Google: Patenting an algorithm that's in the public domain by applying it to a specific application is not just a misuse of the patent system, it's overriding an inventor who made his work available for all to use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/after-patent-office-rejection-it-time-google-abandon-its-attempt-patent-use-public

RT @taschagroup: Fantastic @eff resources if you're looking to teach #digitalsecurity to others: https://sec.eff.org/

Amal Fathy is an Egyptian activist who was arrested for posting an online video about her sexual harassment.

In response, Fathy received threats and calls for her arrest — and has been detained for months without trial.
https://www.eff.org/offline/amal-fathy

ISPs claim they offer unlimited data.
In reality, they offer unlimited throttled data and limited non-throttled data. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

Help EFF get to SXSW by voting for our panels in the SXSW Panel Picker. And share the blog post so your friends can vote, too! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/help-send-eff-sxsw-2019

Coming to #BlackHatUSA? Join EFF Senior Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl for a discussion of a handful of simple measures that independent and professional security researchers can take to protect themselves in their work. https://www.eff.org/event/black-hat-usa-2018-5-things-security-researchers-need-know-about-computer-crime-law

The Council of Europe must stand more firmly against a global trend to undermine everyone’s privacy in the pursuit of faster and easier investigations: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/behind-octopus-hidden-race-dismantle-global-law-enforcement-privacy-protections

Each of Gmail's new “security” features comes with serious security problems for users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/between-you-me-and-google-problems-gmails-confidential-mode

Privacy Badger already blocks third-party trackers that follow you around the web. Now, it stops link tracking on Facebook—so you can click links on the site without the company following you http://eff.org/privacybadger