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Here Are 458 California Law Enforcement Agencies' Policy Documents All in One Place
EFF in partnership with Stanford Libraries' Systemic Racism Tracker project has released a data set with links to 458 policy manuals from California law enforcement agencies, including most police departments and sheriff offices and some district attorney offices, school district police departments, and university public safety departments. This data set...
Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | April 24, 2021
Your Service Provider’s Terms of Service Shouldn’t Overrule Your Fourth Amendment Rights
Deeplinks Blog by Daly Barnett | April 23, 2021
Canada’s Attempt to Regulate Sexual Content Online Ignores Technical and Historical Realities
Canadian Senate Bill S-203 , AKA the “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act,” is another woefully misguided proposal aimed at regulating sexual content online. To say the least, this bill fails to understand how the internet functions and would be seriously damaging to online expression and privacy. It’s...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | April 22, 2021
Tell Congress: Federal Money Shouldn’t Be Spent On Breaking Encryption
We don’t need government minders in our private conversations. That’s because private conversations, whether they happen offline or online, aren’t a public safety menace. They’re not an invitation to criminality, or terrorism, or a threat to children, no matter how many times those tired old lines get repeated....
Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State
EFF has released Data Driven 2: California Dragnet, a new public records collection and data set that shines light on the massive amount of vehicle surveillance conducted by police in California using automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—and how very little of this surveillance is actually relevant to an active public...
Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock , Adam Schwartz , Hayley Tsukayama | April 22, 2021
No Digital Vaccine Bouncers
The U.S. is distributing more vaccines and the population is gradually becoming vaccinated . Returning to regular means of activity and movement has become the main focus for many Americans who want to travel or see family. An increasingly common proposal to get there is digital proof-of-vaccination,...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | April 21, 2021
Fighting FLoC and Fighting Monopoly Are Fully Compatible
Are tech giants really damned if they do and damned if they don’t (protect our privacy)?That’s a damned good question that’s been occasioned by Google’s announcement that they’re killing the invasive, tracking third-party cookie (yay!) and replacing it with FLoC , an alternative tracking scheme that will ...
Deeplinks Blog by Sasha Mathew, Danny O'Brien | April 20, 2021
Indian Government's Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Outright Are A Bad Idea