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Deeplinks Blog by Mark Jaycox, Lee Tien | December 27, 2015

Reforms Abound for Cross-Border Data Requests

Access to data stored in the United States presents an especially important question for other countries because of the prominence of U.S. Internet companies. Currently, law enforcement officials in other countries must pursue access to data in the U.S. through the Department of Justice (DOJ)-run Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (...

Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Wafa Ben Hassine | December 18, 2015

Changes to Facebook’s "Real Names" Policy Still Don’t Fix the Problem

In response to feedback from activist groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook announced Tuesday that it would change some aspects of its real names policy. As it currently stands, the policy requires users to register what Facebook calls their “authentic identity,”—or how friends and family know them—in order to...

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Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | October 21, 2015

California Leads the Way in Digital Privacy

Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a crucial law with groundbreaking implications for privacy, the Internet and free speech. Sacramento's adoption of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, also known as CalECPA, makes California the largest state to adopt digital privacy protections including both the content of...
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Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Sophia Cope | March 27, 2015

France’s Censorship and Surveillance Initiatives Lack Judicial Review

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris in January, including the murder of several journalists at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, we anticipated that the French government would overreact. Sure enough, recent reporting has revealed that France is censoring websites and pushing for broader surveillance powers.

According to the...

Deeplinks Blog by Kurt Opsahl, Lee Tien, Yana Welinder | August 17, 2012

A California District Court Holds that the Video Privacy Protection Act Applies to Online Video

Last Friday, the District Court for the Northern District of California issued a ruling that clarifies that the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) applies to online video. The court thereby confirmed what EFF has been arguing for quite some time: that this law protects...

Deeplinks Blog by Matt Zimmerman | July 17, 2012

EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit

Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private...

Deeplinks Blog by Matt Zimmerman | July 12, 2012

Fifth Circuit Upholds Sanctions Award Against Copyright Troll Attorney

Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order imposing sanctions on Evan Stone, attorney for adult film producer Mick Haig Productions, who improperly issued subpoenas without leave of court to ISPs seeking the identities of anonymous subscribers in a mass end-user copyright infringement case....

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