Jeremy Gillula
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Victories and Disappointments in AI and Algorithmic Decision-Making: 2019 Year in Review
AI and algorithmic decision-making raised important civil liberties issues in 2019, with developments good, bad, and in-between.Starting off in the “disappointing” category, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in August that it was considering new rules that would... → Read More
Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Really Help Security
Note: Sam Jadali, the author of the DataSpii report referenced in this blog post, is an EFF Coders’ Rights client. However, the information about DataSpii in this post is based entirely on public reports.Last week we learned about DataSpii, a report by independent researcher Sam Jadali about the “... → Read More
Using Technology to Protect Online Privacy: 2018 Year in Review
In terms of technical approaches to protecting user privacy online, 2018 has certainly seen its ups and downs.On a positive note, we added a ton of new features to Privacy Badger, EFF’s anti-tracking browser extension for Firefox and Chrome. We started by revamping the experience for new users and... → Read More
Recidivism Risk Assessments Won’t Fix the Criminal Justice System
The First Step Act of 2018 (S. 3649) is now federal law.The criminal justice reform law has been widely hailed as long overdue, and rightly so. But as we turn to its implementation, we urge policymakers to take care with the central provision of the bill that calls for the development of a risk... → Read More
Announcing STARTTLS Everywhere: Securing Hop-to-Hop Email Delivery
Today we’re announcing the launch of STARTTLS Everywhere, EFF’s initiative to improve the security of the email ecosystem. Thanks to previous EFF efforts like Let's Encrypt, and Certbot, as well as help from the major web browsers, we've seen significant wins in encrypting the web. Now we want to... → Read More
Broadband Privacy: 2017 Year in Review
It seems like a no-brainer that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) should have to get your permission to snoop on and use the private information you generate as you browse the Internet. In 2017, pressure from the telecom industry led to Congress and the president rolling back protections for... → Read More
The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review
The fight between the Federal Communications Commission’s choice to abandon the principles of net neutrality and the majority of Americans started early in 2017 and continued into the very last month of the year. But even with the FCC’s bad vote coming so late, we fought all year to build up... → Read More
The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works
Earlier this year nearly 200 Internet engineers and computer scientists sent a letter to the FCC that explained facts about the structure, history, and evolving nature of the Internet. The reasons we laid out in that letter for writing it then still apply to the draft now: Based on... → Read More
Stupid Patent of the Month: Will Patents Slow Artificial Intelligence?
We have written many times about why the patent system is a bad fit for software. Too often, the Patent Office reviews applications without ever looking at real world software and hands out broad, vague, or obvious patents on software concepts. These patents fuel patent trolling and waste. As... → Read More
Stop SESTA: Whose Voices Will SESTA Silence?
Overreliance on Automated Filters Would Push Victims Off of the Internet In all of the debate about the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA, S. 1693), there’s one question that’s received surprisingly little airplay: under SESTA, what would online platforms do in order to protect themselves... → Read More
Three Lies Big Internet providers Are Spreading to Kill the California Broadband Privacy Bill
Now that California’s Broadband Privacy Bill, A.B. 375, is headed for a final vote in the California legislature, Comcast, Verizon, and all their allies are pulling out all the stops to try to convince state legislators to vote against the bill. Unfortunately, that includes telling legislators... → Read More
Industry Efforts to Censor Pro-Terrorism Online Content Pose Risks to Free Speech
In recent months, social media platforms—under pressure from a number of governments—have adopted new policies and practices to remove content that promotes terrorism. As the Guardian reported, these policies are typically carried out by low-paid contractors (or, in the case of YouTube, volunteers... → Read More
NLPC's False Report Diverts Attention from the Concerns of Real Net Neutrality Supporters
We learned this Wednesday of a report by the National Law and Policy Center (NLPC) that claimed EFF submitted over 100,000 fake comments to the FCC's net neutrality docket, using fake names, email addresses, and physical addresses. Since we’ve started to get questions about NLPC’s report, we wanted to set the record straight. NLPC’s report is false. Not one name, email address, or email domain… → Read More
Hollow Privacy Promises from Major Internet Service Providers
It’s no surprise that Americans were unhappy to lose online privacy protections earlier this month. → Read More
An Update on Verizon's AppFlash: Pre-Installed Spyware Is Still Spyware
This post is an UPDATE to a piece we originally published last week. Verizon recently rolled out a new pilot project to pre-install on customers’ devices an app launcher/search tool that, we believe, is really just spyware. This software, called AppFlash, is preloaded on a new model of LG device—the LG K20 V—rather than in all of their Android line as we previously reported. → Read More
The First Horseman of the Privacy Apocalypse Has Already Arrived: Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones
Within days of Congress repealing online privacy protections, Verizon has announced new plans to install software on customers’ devices to track what apps customers have downloaded. → Read More
Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules
Call your Congressmember now to save online privacy! Back in October of 2016, the Federal Communications Commission passed some pretty awesome rules that would bar your Internet provider from invading your privacy. The rules would keep Internet providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from doing things like selling your personal information to marketers, inserting undetectable tracking… → Read More
Five Creepy Things Your ISP Could Do if Congress Repeals the FCC’s Privacy Protections
Why are we so worried about Congress repealing the FCC’s privacy rules for ISPs? Because we’ve seen ISPs do some disturbing things in the past to invade their users’ privacy. Here are five examples of creepy practices that could make a resurgence if we don’t stop Congress now. Call Congress and help keep creepy ISP practices a thing of the past! 5. Selling your data to marketers Which ISPs did… → Read More
Three Myths the Telecom Industry is Using to Convince Congress to Repeal the FCC’s Privacy Rules, Busted
Back in October of 2016, the FCC passed some pretty awesome rules that would bar your internet service provider (ISP) from invading your privacy. The rules would keep ISPs like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from doing things like selling your personal information to marketers, inserting undetectable tracking headers into your traffic, or recording your browsing history to build up a behavioral… → Read More
Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections As You Read This
Call congress now! Back in 2014 over 3 million Internet users told the U.S. government loudly and clearly: we value our online security, we value our online privacy, and we value net neutrality. Our voices helped convince the FCC to enact smart net neutrality regulations—including long-needed privacy rules. But it appears some members of Congress didn’t get the message, because they’re trying to… → Read More