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With app mandates in place, the same students who do not have reliable home broadband connections and study space for remote instruction would likely be unable to meet the smartphone app requirements to attend classes in person.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/university-app-mandates-are-wrong-call …

EFF's Hayley Tsukayama will be at Dragon Con today at 12 pm PT discussing the problems with getting paid for your data. Make sure to check it out!https://www.eff.org/event/eff-dragon-con-watchparty-problems-getting-paid-your-data …

We've been sending EFF's "EFFector" newsletter for nearly 30 years, and now we're trying something new: listen online!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05RXrsKlR1M&t=83s …

A solution that requires students to surrender the security of their personal biometric information and give over video of their private spaces is no solution at all.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/proctoring-apps-subject-students-unnecessary-surveillance …

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights.https://www.eff.org/fight 

Along with traditional currency, you can donate to EFF using various cryptocoins! Check out some different ways to give to EFF today.https://www.eff.org/pages/other-ways-give-and-donor-support#crypto …

Portland: It’s time to end government use of face surveillancehttps://aboutfacenow.org/portland-or 

Although it's embarrassing for CBS that it took down its own video, it's not a rare occurrence.https://www.eff.org/takedowns/star-trek-and-cbs-enterprising-takedown …

Predictive policing creates a feedback loop. Once someone is arrested or accused once, they are more like to be harassed by police again, and again.https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/ …

The communities least likely to have a smartphone—like elderly people and homeless people—are also the ones at higher risk for COVID-19. Any smartphone-based approach to fighting the pandemic will leave them out.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/covid-19-tracking-technology-will-not-save-us …

Choosing to comply with or reject a government request for financial data can have a huge impact on what types of speech can thrive online. These are difficult decisions with serious consequences, and they should not be made in the dark.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/its-past-time-coinbase-issue-transparency-reports …

Exposure notification apps are still experimental technology, not an excuse for institutions to take risks with our health.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/covid-19-tracking-technology-will-not-save-us …

Check out EFF's Kurt Opsahl discussing U.S. Congress potentially mandating encryption backdoors through the EARN IT Act and more today at 2 pm PT!https://www.eff.org/event/eff-dragon-con-watchparty-earn-it-act-laeda-and-other-threats-encryption …

The Patent Office needs to stop coming up with excuses to save invalid patents. Otherwise, users and consumers suffer.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/when-us-patent-office-wont-do-its-job-congress-should-step …

We proudly join a coalition of consumer advocates calling on Congress to pass the Payment Choice Act. Some customers pay in cash to protect their privacy. Other customers (many with lower incomes) lack access to higher tech payment systems.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/pass-payment-choice-act …

If major copyright holders can't stop automated systems from taking down their own content, how much worse must it be for small creators?https://www.eff.org/takedowns/star-trek-and-cbs-enterprising-takedown …

A French court has ruled against using drones to combat COVID-19 because they "constitute a serious and manifestly unlawful infringement of privacy rights”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-18/paris-police-drones-banned-from-spying-on-virus-violators …

"Cell phone data is the bottled water of the Internet; it is convenient on the go, but it is expensive and always comes with a cap". Electronic Frontier Alliance member @personaltelco discuss their efforts to connect their community.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/personal-telco-project-case-study-community-connectivity …

Predictive Policing doesn't make policing more precise or benign, just ask the people in this story. Some families were harassed so consistently and at all hours of the day and night that they were forced to movehttps://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/ …

What surveillance equipment is law enforcement using in your area? EFF and @RSJNevada are mapping police technology in use all over the United States.https://atlasofsurveillance.org/