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May 6, 2016

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2015 Annual Report – (Highly Summarized)

Filed under: Electronic Frontier Foundation,Privacy — Patrick Durusau @ 1:14 pm

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2015 Annual Report

If you have ever read an annual report, from any organization, you remember it as a stultifying experience. You could sense your life force ebbing away. 😉

To save you from a similar experience with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2015 Annual Report, I’ll hit high points in their own words:

Technology

Let’s Encrypt –

A free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit, puts a secure Internet within reach.

Privacy Badger –

Our browser extension, which automatically blocks hidden trackers that would otherwise spy on your web browsing habits, leaves beta.

Panopticlick –

The latest version of our tracking and fingerprinting detection tool includes new tests, updating its ability to uniquely identify browsers with current techniques.

Activism

USA Freedom –

After more than two years of work in the wake of the Snowden revelations, this bill’s passage marks the first significant reform on NSA surveillance in over 30 years.

Who Has Your Back? –

Our yearly report—which documents the practices of major Internet companies and service providers, judges their publicly available policies, and highlights best practices—goes global.

Street Level Surveillance –

Our new Web portal is loaded with comprehensive, easy-to-access information on police spying tools like license plate readers, biometric collection devices, and “Stingrays.”

Law

NSA Cases –

EFF fights unconstitutional gag orders on behalf of clients forced to remain anonymous.

Save Podcasting –

EFF successfully challenged the bogus podcasting patent owned by Personal Audio LLC.

ECPA –

California is now the largest state to adopt digital privacy protections including both the content of messages and location data.

DMCA Exemptions –

In the U.S. Copyright Office’s latest triennial rulemaking, EFF requested—and secured—6 anti-circumvention exemptions in 4 different categories.

Net Neutrality –

Title II reclassification drew bright-line rules to protect the open Internet.

All of which is to say:

Join the EFF today!

Two hundred and ninety-eight words down to that last “!”

What more needs to be said?

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