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In our 562nd issue:
EFF is celebrating 21 years of defending civil liberties in the digital world! Join us as nerdcore and chiptune artists Dual Core, Crashfaster, Trash80, and Doctor Popular sling dope rhymes and bangin' bleeps for EFF's 21st birthday at the future-focused BAMM.tv studio in San Francisco. There will be an open bar while supplies last! You can get tickets now at https://www.eff.org/birthday or watch the performance live streamed at bamm.tv
Tell your congressperson to vote NO to the PATRIOT Act! The PATRIOT reauthorization bill being fast-tracked to the House floor contains NO reforms to the law, and is expected to be voted upon any day now, likely with NO debate and NO opportunity for amendments to add oversight and accountability. Help stop this sneak attack on your civil liberties: tell your Congressperson to vote "NO" on H.R. 514, the PATRIOT extension bill.
A federal court has unsealed motions filed by the EFF, the ACLU, and others concerning government attempts to obtain Twitter account records in connection with its Wikileaks investigation. One motion asks for the unsealing of court records detailing the government's attempts to collect private records from Twitter as well as other companies who may have received demands for information from the government. The second motion seeks to overturn the court order requiring Twitter to provide information about its users.
EFF Updates
Egypt's Internet Blackout Highlights Danger of Weak
Links, Usefulness of Quick Links
The Internet blackout in Egypt demonstrated a strength of
the Internet in terms of circumventing censorship: it is
highly amendable to the establishment of "quick links," the
kind of relatively easy, quick-and-dirty solutions that get
devices and communications content itself onto the
Internet.
EFF to Judge: Watch for Fairness in Mass Copyright Suits
Judges across the country are cracking down on unfair
tactics by copyright trolls. EFF has asked a federal judge
in Washington, D.C. to do the same, urging her to consider
recent developments recognizing it is improper to join
thousands of people in one lawsuit based solely on the fact
that they all allegedly used the same software protocol to
share one or more copyrighted works.
FBI, DOJ and DEA Stall Release of Records on Bid to Expand Surveillance Laws
EFF is fighting federal law enforcement attempts to stall
the release of critical records that could influence debate
on surveillance law. In a brief filed in a FOIA lawsuit,
EFF asked the court to order the agencies to produce the
information within 10 days.
FCC "Ancillary" Authority to Regulate the Internet? Don't
Count on It
EFF is wholly in favor of net neutrality in practice, but a
finding of ancillary jurisdiction would give the FCC nearly
boundless authority to regulate the Internet for whatever
it sees fit.
As International Privacy Day is Celebrated, Governments
Continue to Chip Away at Privacy Rights
Privacy advocates and government officials in countries
across the world celebrated the 5th annual International
Privacy Day — even as individual privacy is threatened by
surveillance proposals and security breaches worldwide.
miniLinks
Dropping the Case Against Assange
Prof. Tim Wu argues that this is no time to bring a case
against Wikileaks.
Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google
Homeland Security Special Agent James Hayes attempts to
respond to queries about how the seizure of domain names
under the questionable theory that linking to infringing
material is, by itself, criminal copyright infringement.
Handing Control of the Internet to Governments: Bad Idea
ICANN has finally concluded that we should expand the
domain name space, but the Dept. of Commerce is trying to
grant governments veto power -- a move that could be used
for online censorship.
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Announcements
EFF at RSA Conference USA 2011
Come to the EFF booth at the 2011 RSA Conference! Support
your favorite nonprofit while checking out the latest in
the infosec industry.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: February 13, 2011
BSidesSanFrancisco
Join EFF at BSidesSanFrancisco! Security B-Sides is a
community driven unconference built for and by information
security community members. It is an intense event with
discussions, demos and interaction from participants.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: February 13, 2011
EFF's 21st Birthday Party!
Join us as nerdcore and chiptune artists Dual Core,
Crashfaster, Adam WarRock, and Trash80 sling dope rhymes
and bangin' bleeps for EFF's 21st birthday at the
future-focused BAMM.tv studio in San Francisco.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: February 16, 2011
47 U.S.C. 230: a 15-Year Retrospective
Co-sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this
symposium will unite some of the key figures in the history
of 47 U.S.C. 230, widely regarded as the most important
Internet specific law.
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Date: March 4, 2011
From Mad Men to Mad Bots: Advertising in the Digital Age
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien will participate on a
panel discussion regarding Online Advertising Privacy at
Yale Law School's Information Society Project's Spring
Symposium.
Location: New Haven, CT
Date: March 25-26, 2011
SOURCE Boston and SOURCE Seattle
EFF is a proud partner of two SOURCE Security Conferences!
In addition to advanced technical talks, SOURCE offers
workshops on entrepreneurship, management strategies, job
interviewing, presentation skills, and proficiencies and
strategies designed for the security industry.
Location: Boston, MA
Date: April 20, 2011
and
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: June 15-16, 2011
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