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

EFF supporters helped us crowdfund a legal challenge to stop the "podcasting patent." Now the U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would ban EFF and other non-profits from ever filing such a petition. Let's stop it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system

You have a massive collection of e-books, music, video games, software, and movies that you bought as a digital download, and you probably think you own them, like you own a physical book or a DVD. 
Here’s why that’s often not true. https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/wait-i-don-t-own-the-digital-downloads-i-buy

Device repair doesn’t need to be expensive, but companies have made repair a way to siphon more money from your pocket to theirs. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/why-it-so-expensive-repair-my-devices

EFF strongly supports the PRESS Act, which would provide critical protections to journalists against government surveillance and forced disclosure of their confidential sources. Help ensure its passage by telling Congress it must be a priority.  https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-press-act-now

EFF's legal internship gives law students the chance to work on groundbreaking tech law cases. Ready to make an impact? Apply now! https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/interns

Mientras se estrecha el vínculo entre la IA comercial y el Estado de Seguridad Nacional, cabe preguntarse si el secretismo gubernamental hará que estos modelos sean aún menos transparentes y responsables. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/us-national-security-state-here-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable?language=es

As the relationship between commercial AI and the national security state becomes closer it’s important to ask: will government secrecy make these models even less transparent and accountable? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/us-national-security-state-here-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable

Anyone who meets the legal requirements should have the right to challenge invalid patents. This bill would sharply limit access to such challenges. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system

EFF está a la altura cuando la situación lo demanda https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next?language=es

Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

“This type of surveillance doesn't deliver as promised [and] is pretty faulty and pretty wasteful,” EFF’s Dave Maass told Courthouse News about the Plataforma Centinela. “The whole platform is leaning into spending gobs of money because it's glittery.” https://www.courthousenews.com/snapshots-from-borderlands-on-eve-of-second-trump-era/

“It’s not illegal to have a monopoly,” EFF’s @mitchstoltz told Vox about Google. “But it is illegal to leverage one’s monopoly power to maintain that monopoly, basically to stay a monopolist by means other than simply having the best product.” https://www.vox.com/technology/387375/google-chrome-antitrust-privacy-android

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“Social media business models are extractive and exploitative. But we can’t fix our societies by fixing social media. I think that we have to deal with hate in the offline world.”

-Read our latest Speaking Freely interview with South African human rights defender Anriette Esterhuysen here: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-anriette-esterhuysen

Just because someone wants anonymity online “doesn’t necessarily mean they’re engaging in illegal activity,” EFF’s @zoracon told NBC4 Columbus. “Privacy is important for everyone.” https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/city-hack/how-the-dark-web-ties-to-columbus-data-breach/

“Unfortunately, multiple presidential administrations have abused U.S. laws to spy on reporters just for doing their jobs,” EFF’s Joe Mullin told @theintercept. “The PRESS Act, which has strong bipartisan support, would put a stop to this abuse of power.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/21/press-act-trump-press-freedom/

The House is about to vote on a bill that would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch to allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. Tell Congress to vote NO on H.R. 9495. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

The Senate Judiciary Committee is using its final hours this year to advance a bill that empowers patent trolls. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system

We've already stopped one bill this year that would have rolled back progress on patent reform. But another one is coming up for a vote tomorrow. Help us speak out against it. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

If this bill passes, only patent trolls will PREVAIL. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system