EFFसत्यापित खाता

We are greatly heartened that the Mexican Supreme Court has taken up this urgent issue, and we stand with our partners at @R3DMx and @DerechosDigitales in urging the court to suspend the law while they consider it. 14/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca …

US copyright law also interferes with archives as well as other vital cultural institutions, such as galleries, museums and libraries - because storing, displaying and replaying works often requires bypassing DRM. 12/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca#archives …

US copyright law under the DMCA is so draconian that it blocks you from sharing a tool that prevents seizure-triggering strobe effects in streaming videos. https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/issues/376 … 11/14

And while many laws protect the rights of people with disabilities, they are no match for the DMCA's ban on breaking DRM. Abbot Labs used DRM to block a project that helped people with diabetes connect their glucose meters to their insulin pumps. https://www.diabettech.com/wearenotwaiting/patching-librelink-for-libre2-clearing-the-fud/ … 10/14

Next: #Disability. Many tech companies have done excellent work in making their products accessible, but accessibility is a highly individual matter - every person needs different accommodations and no one can hope to anticipate all needs. 9/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca#accessibility …

Then there's self-determination. DRM is used to enforce all kinds of arbitrary limits on protected private activity - think of #CPCM, the digital locks on DVB television signals. This DRM defines what a family (!) is, and is not. 7/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca#self-determination …

Start with #FreeExpression: the DMCA threatens device owners who bypass digital locks, even when they need to do so for legal uses: recording a program, remixing it for commentary or criticism, or capturing it for investigation or analysis. 5/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca#free-expression …

In consultation with our partner NGOs, and to help Mexican lawmakers, people and firms understand what's at stake, we've published a review of 22 years' worth of US DMCA human rights crises - the law that Mexico based their own new copyright on. 4/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-lessons-22-years-us-dmca …

They're right to worry. The US's digital copyright system - the #DMCA - is 22 years old and over that time, it has been a disaster for human rights. We should know. We've been fighting it since it was just a bill, working its way through Congress. 3/14https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca 

Then, a month later, Mexico's Human Rights Commission stopped the law (temporarily), referring it to the Mexican Supreme Court on the grounds that it could violate the Mexican Constitution. 2/14https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/road-victory-human-rights-mexico …

End-to-end, transport-layer, full-disk, in transit, at rest—there's more than one way to encrypt. Learn more here about different kinds of encryption and how they all fit together.https://sec.eff.org/articles/different-encryption …

In less than two hours, the Portland City Council will consider public and private bans on the use of face recognition technology.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/portlands-fight-against-face-surveillance …