Data Breach

• newJones Day partners Edward Chang and John Vogt named to Daily Journal's list of Top ...
  He is a true "hybrid" cybersecurity and data privacy lawyer, who has both extensive class action data breach and privacy litigation experience, ...
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• newRed Cross cyberattack hits 4,600 people in need | NL Times
  The aid organization reported the data breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP). The Red Cross said it would inform the affected people ...
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• newLive Webinar | Closing Hybrid Working Security Gaps: Redefining Ransomware Prevention ...
  bank information security. ... What Business Leaders Should Know About Data Leakage & The Evolving Threat Landscape ...
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• newAnalyzing Data Breach Notification Software market dynamics over 2021-2026 - Getnewsalert
  Global “ Data Breach Notification Software Market” Research Report 2020–2025 is a historical overview and in-depth study on the current & future.
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• newIvanti announces solutions and enhancements to automate complicated workflows - Help ...
  This stat is alarming as the longer vulnerabilities remain unpatched, the more exposed a business is to the risk of a data breach or ransomware ...
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Krebs On Security

• newScary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

  

  What's worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One r…
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• Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops

  

  Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming t…
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Naked Security

• Tax scam emails are alive and well as US tax season starts

  

  If in doubt, don't give it out! (And don't forget that no reply is often a good reply.)
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• Alleged carder gang mastermind and three acolytes under arrest in Russia

  

  The motto of the gang was "In Fraud We Trust", and they went by a dizzying range of online nicknames.
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CSO Online

• newSerious PwnKit flaw in default Linux installations requires urgent patching

  

  Security researchers have found a privilege escalation vulnerability in pkexec, a tool that's present by default on many Linux installations. The flaw, called PwnKit, could allow attackers to easily gain root privileges on systems if they have acc…
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• newBrandPost: 5 Cyber Criminal Ransomware Mistakes to Make You Smile

  

  Even criminals have an off day. After all, human-led ransomware attacks are just that; human. Which means the criminals behind them can often make errors.While ransomware adversaries can appear scary to defenders, with a lot of bravado to back up…
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FierceITSecurity

CIO Online

• newA platform model drives digital innovation at Zoetis
  Zoetis is a $6.7 billion global animal health business that was founded 70 years ago. The company sells its medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and genetics in more than 100 countries to help animals live healthier, more productive lives. More re…
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• newTrusted advisors: 8 tips for developing a dependable network
  There’s no shortage of challenges CIOs face each day, from meeting customer and employee expectations, to mitigating complex security risks, to evaluating and integrating new tech solutions, to managing their own people and ensuring resilient busi…
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Homeland Security Today

• newCBP Expands Simplified Arrival to International Airports in the South
  To date, more than 130 million travelers have participated in the biometric facial comparison process at air, land and seaports of entry.The post CBP Expands Simplified Arrival to International Airports in the South appeared first on Hstoday.
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• newICE HSI, Joint Law Enforcement Operation Leads to Multiple Human Trafficking Arrests and Seizures
  The focus of the operation was to identify individuals seeking to engage in commercial sex acts with minors.The post ICE HSI, Joint Law Enforcement Operation Leads to Multiple Human Trafficking Arrests and Seizures appeared first on Hstoday.
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Graham Cluley Latest

• Is Google tracking your location even when you think you’ve turned it off? US states sue over “deception”
  Four US states have launched a law suit against Google, claiming that the technology giant continued to track users' location, even when they users had asked it not to.
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• Jail for prolific romance fraudster who fleeced besotted lonely hearts
  To his victims he was "Tony Eden", a middle-aged white man looking for love online, while working overseas for a drilling company.But in reality he was a school caretaker called Osagie Aigbonohan, originally from Lagos, Nigeria, and part of a crimi…
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Multi-State Information Sharing Center

• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox Could Allow for Remote Code Execution
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• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Remote Code Execution
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Network World

• Zero Trust is hard but worth it

  

  At the end of last year, I heard from a long-time enterprise contact that had a major security concern. The company had installed three layers of security and just completed an audit. It showed that since thIey’d finished their installation they…
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• How to shop for firewalls

  

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Packet Storm Latest

• newPolkit pkexec CVE-2021-4034 Local Root
  Local privilege escalation root exploit for Polkit's pkexec vulnerability as described in CVE-2021-4034 and known as PwnKit. Written in Go.
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• newPolkit pkexec CVE-2021-4034 Proof Of Concept
  Local privilege escalation root exploit for Polkit's pkexec vulnerability as described in CVE-2021-4034. Verified on Debian 10 and CentOS 7. Written in C.
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NIST Latest in IT

• NISTs Network-of-Things Model Builds Foundation to Help Define the Internet of Things
  A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a basic model aimed at helping researchers better understand the Internet of Things (IoT) and its security challenges.Credit: Natasha ...
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• Realizing the Potential of Quantum Information Science and Advancing High-Performance Computing
  The White House announced today a new report from the National Science and Technology Council on challenges, opportunities and the path forward in quantum information science, including a plan for high-performance computing.As described ...
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US- CERT Alerts

• AA22-011A: Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
  Original release date: January 11, 2022 | Last revised: January 25, 2022SummaryActions Critical Infrastructure Organizations Should Implement to Immediately Strengthen Their Cyber Posture.• Patch all systems. Prioritize patching known exploited vu…
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• AA21-356A: Mitigating Log4Shell and Other Log4j-Related Vulnerabilities
  Original release date: December 22, 2021 | Last revised: December 23, 2021SummaryThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), Australian Cyber Security Centre…
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Cisco Security Alerts

• ISC BIND Subsequent RDATA Query Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
  HP has released an additional security bulletin and updated software to address the ISC BIND subsequent RDATA query processing remote denial of service vulnerability.
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• Network Time Protocol decodenetnum() Function Denial of Service Vulnerability
  IBM has released a security advisory and fixes to address the Network Time Protocol decodenetnum() function denial of service vulnerability.
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Cisco Event Responses

• Cisco Event Response: Apache Log4j Java Logging Library Security Incident
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• Cisco Event Response: October 2021 Cisco ASA, FMC, and FTD Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication
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HIPPA Omnibus Rule

• BlackMatter Claims to Shut Ops; Experts Suspect Rebranding

  

  Criminal Group Announced News on Russian Site, Says Malware Research Organization vx-undergroundRansomware-as-a-service provider BlackMatter has ceased operations due to pressure from local authorities, malware research organization vx-underground sa…
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• FBI Warns of Ransomware Actors Leveraging M&A Data

  

  Bad Actors Learn Victim Firms' Public, Nonpublic Data Before Attack to Increase ImpactThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a notification warning to private sector companies, especially those listed or in the process of being listed on stoc…
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• Ransomware Incidents Among Largest Breaches on Federal Tally

  

  Analysis of Latest Health Data Breaches on the HHS OCR 'Wall of Shame'Ransomware incidents are becoming a major cause of health data breaches affecting millions of individuals that have been reported so far in 2021, according to the latest additions…
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• CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Patch Known Vulnerabilities

  

  BOD 22-01 Imposes Strict Deadlines for Remediation of Publicly Known ExploitsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday issued a new directive - BOD 22-01 - requiring federal civilian agencies to patch vulnerabilities know…
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• HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule
  This package of regulations includes modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security, enforcement and breach notification rules, as required under the HITECH Act.
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• HITECH Act Stage 2 EHR Incentive Program Software Certification Final Rule
  This rule establishes criteria for electronic health records software that qualifies for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act Electronic Health Record Incentive Program. The program, part of the economic stimulus package, is providing billions of dollars in Med…
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• HITECH Act Stage 2 EHR Incentive Program Meaningful Use Final Rule
  This rule establishes criteria that hospitals and physicians must meet to qualify as "meaningful users" of electronic health records and receive further financial incentives in Stage 2 of the HITECH Act Electronic Health Record Incentive Program. The…
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• FDA: Unique Device Identification System
  This proposed rule from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would require unique identifiers on medical devices. While the rule aims to ease the collection and analysis of data about adverse health events and help detect counterfeit products, no pa…
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• Live Webinar | ‘Tis the Season…for Fraud
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• Panel Discussion | The Future of Cybersecurity: Is the US Government Finally Getting Serious About Protecting Supply Chains?
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• Fireside Chat | State of Software Security: The Costly Risks of Open Source Code
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• Live Webinar | The 5 Myths Hindering You From SOC Automation
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• Why Healthcare Entities Fall Short Managing Security Risk
  Why do so many HIPAA -covered entities and their vendors do such a poor job managing security risk and safeguarding patient's protected health information? Many critical factors come into play, say Roger Severino, ex- director of HHS OCR, and Bob Cha…
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• Ransomware Gangs Are Not Infallible
  The latest ISMG Security Report features the fallibility of ransomware gangs and why victims should always seek help from a reputable response firm, law enforcement or other qualified expert. Also featured: Data protection advice and why the remote w…
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• Why Hive Attacks Are the Latest Menace to Healthcare Sector
  Several characteristics of the Hive ransomware group make the threat actor particularly menacing to its victims, which include healthcare sector targets, says Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at security firm CrowdStrike.
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• Case Study: Intrusion Prevention, Detection in the Cloud
  Chronic disease management firm Omada Health has been changing its approach to cloud intrusion prevention and detection, which is reducing time spent on investigating false positives, says the company's information security leader, Bill Dougherty.
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• Changing Employee Mindsets During Digital Transformation
  How CISOs Can Ensure That the Business Succeeds While It TransformsWhile doing digital transformation, CISOs tend to look more at technology and try to adapt it without making the distinction between technologies that are must-have and good to have.…
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• Forget Hacking Back: Just Waste Ransomware Gangs' Time
  Time Is Money for Criminals; Some Profits Susceptible to DDoS and Other DisruptionsWho's been launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against ransomware operators' sites and cybercrime markets? Disrupting ransomware operations that rely on To…
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• Memo to Ransomware Victims: Seeking Help May Save You Money
  Flaw in DarkSide and BlackMatter Enabled Security Firm to Decrypt Files for FreeWhile ransomware might be today's top cybercrime boogeyman, attackers aren't infallible. The latest example: Errors in DarkSide - and its BlackMatter rebrand - enabled se…
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• Troublemaker CISO: Do You Know What You Should Be Doing?
  The Rant of the Day From Ian Keller, EricssonIn his second Rant of the Day for the CyberEdBoard Profiles in Leadershop blog, Ian Keller, security director at Ericsson and CyberEdBoard executive member, talks about what a CISO does - and what a CISO s…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Deep Links

• Podcast Episode: Data Doppelgängers

  

  Podcast Episode 109As humans, we’re constantly changing and evolving, always trying to become our best selves. But the internet will never forget about us at our lowest. One simple search or purchase online can cause the internet, specifically adv…
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• The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.
  This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency to convince people that encrypted messages are dangerous to children.The explicit goal of the “No Pl…
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• Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 34.1
  Start the new year right by keeping up with the latest news on your digital rights! Version 34, issue 1 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news, from our celebration of Copyright Week to Google releasing a "disable 2g"…
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• EFF Sues the U.S. State Department over Documents Related to Activist Leila Khaled
  Over the last few years, technology platforms have repeatedly censored online expression by Palestinians and their allies. In one example of this, technology companies have refused to host speech by Palestinian activist Leila Khaled. Khaled is assoc…
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• DSA: EU Parliament Vote Ensures a Free Internet, But a Final Regulation Must Add Stronger Privacy Protections
  The European Parliament had an important decision to make this week about the Digital Services Act (DSA). After months of considering amendments, members oscillated between several policy options on how to regulate online platforms, including the dys…
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• In the Internet Age, Copyright Law Does Far More Than Antitrust to Shape Competition
  We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's…
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• Fact-Checking, COVID-19 Misinformation, and the British Medical Journal
  Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, authoritative research and publications have been critical in gaining better knowledge of the virus and how to combat it. However, unlike previous pandemics, this one has been further exacerbated by a massive wave of…
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• Copyright Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of Your Right to Repair
  We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's…
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• Podcast Episode: How Private is Your Bank Account?

  

  Podcast Episode 108Your friends, your medical concerns, your political ideology— financial transactions tell the story of your life in intimate details. But U.S. law has failed to protect  this sensitive data from prying eyes.  Join EFF’s Cind…
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• Welcome to the Public Domain, Winnie-the-Pooh
  We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's…
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• It’s Copyright Week 2022: Ten Years Later, How Has SOPA/PIPA Shaped Online Copyright Enforcement?
  We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's…
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• EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rule DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions Violate First Amendment
  Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Computer Scientist and Security Researcher Seeks to Bar Enforcement of Section 1201 ProvisionsWashington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal appeals court to block enforcement of onerous copyrigh…
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• EFF Threat Lab’s “apkeep” APK Downloader, Now More Capable and Available in More Places
  In September, we introduced EFF Threat Lab’s very own APK Downloader, apkeep. It is a tool that allows us to make the job of tracking state-sponsored malware and combatting the stalkerware of abusive partners easier. Since that time, we’ve added…
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• San Francisco Police Illegally Used Surveillance Cameras at the George Floyd Protests. The Courts Must Stop Them
  Update: This post has been updated to reflect that the hearing date in this case has been moved to January 21.By Hope Williams, Nathan Sheard, and Nestor ReyesThe authors are community activists who helped organize and participated in protests agai…
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• Nearly 130 Public Interest Organizations and Experts Urge the United Nations to Include Human Rights Safeguards in Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
  (UPDATE: Due to the ongoing situation concerning the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Ad Hoc Committee won't hold its first session from 17 to 28 January 2022 in New York, as planned. Further information will be provided in due course).EFF and…
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• VICTORY: Google Releases “disable 2g” Feature for New Android Smartphones

  

  Update: This feature is only available on certain phones running Android 12. So far we have only confirmed it is available on the Pixel 6. Last year Google quietly pushed a new feature to its Android operating system allowing users to optionally dis…
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• Livestreamed Hearing Moved to Jan. 21: EFF Will Ask Court to Issue Judgment Against SFPD for Illegally Spying on Protesters Marching in Support of Black Lives
  San Francisco Police Violated City Law in Using Private Camera NetworkUpdate: The hearing has been moved to January 21.San Francisco—On Friday, Jan. 21, at 9:30 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of Northern California will…
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• Court Orders Authorizing Law Enforcement To Track People’s Air Travels In Real Time Must Be Made Public
  The public should get to see whether a court that authorized the FBI to track someone’s air travels in real time for six months also analyzed whether the surveillance implicated the Fourth Amendment, EFF argued in a brief filed this week.In Forbes…
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• Standing Up For Privacy In New York State
  New York’s legislature is open for business in the new year, and we’re jumping in to renew our support for two crucial bills that protect New Yorkers’ privacy rights. While very different, both pieces of legislation would uphold a principle we…
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• Podcast Episode: Algorithms for a Just Future

  

  Episode 107 of EFF’s How to Fix the InternetModern life means leaving digital traces wherever we go. But those digital footprints can translate to real-world harms: the websites you visit can impact the mortgage offers, car loans and job options y…
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• “Worst in Show Awards” Livestreams Friday: EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Cory Doctorow Will Unveil Most Privacy-Defective, Least Secure Consumer Tech Products at CES
  "Cool" Products That Collect Your Data, Lock Out UsersLas Vegas—On Friday, January 7, at 9:30 am PT, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Special Advisor and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow will present the creepie…
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• How are Police Using Drones?
  Across the country, police departments are using myriad means and resources at their disposal to stock up on drones. According to the most recent tally on the Atlas of Surveillance (a project of EFF and the University of Nevada), at least 1,172 polic…
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• EFF Condemns the Unjust Conviction and Sentencing of Activist and Friend Alaa Abd El Fattah
  EFF is deeply saddened and angered by the news that our friend, Egyptian blogger, coder, and free speech activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, long a target of oppression by Egypt's successive authoritarian regimes, was sentenced to five years in prison by a…
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• Cross-Border Access to User Data by Law Enforcement: 2021 Year in Review
  Law enforcement around the world is apparently getting its holiday wish list, thanks to the Council of Europe’s adoption of a flawed new protocol to the Budapest Convention, a treaty governing procedures for accessing digital evidence across border…
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• Fighting For A More Open, Balanced Patent System: 2021 in Review
  At EFF, we’ve always stood up for the freedom to tinker and innovate. Unfortunately, our patent system doesn’t promote those freedoms. In some areas, like software, it’s causing much more harm than good. And the system is rife with patent troll…
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• Fighting For You From Coast to Coast: 2021 In Review
  EFF makes its presence known in statehouses across the country to advocate for strong privacy laws, broadband access, and to protect and advance your digital rights. The pandemic has changed a lot about how state legislators operate in 2021, but one…
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• Police Use of Artificial Intelligence: 2021 in Review
  Decades ago, when imagining the practical uses of artificial intelligence, science fiction writers imagined autonomous digital minds that could serve humanity. Sure, sometimes a HAL 9000 or WOPR would subvert expectations and go rogue, but that was v…
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• 2021 Year in Review: EFF Graphics

  

  EFF's small design team sometimes struggles to keep up with the frenetic pace of our activist, legal and development colleagues. Whenever EFF launches a new legal case, activism campaign, tech project, or development campaign, we try to create uniq…
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• In 2021, the Police Took a Page Out of the NSA’s Playbook: 2021 in Review
  With increasing frequency, law enforcement has been using unconstitutional, suspicionless digital dragnet searches in an attempt to identify unknown suspects in criminal cases. Whether these searches are for everyone who was near a building where a c…
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• Every State Has a Chance to Deliver a “Fiber for All” Broadband Future: 2021 in Review
  This year’s passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—also known as the bipartisan infrastructure package—delivered on a goal EFF has sought for years. It finally creates a way for people to remedy a serious problem: a severe…
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• Shining a Light on Black Box Technology Used to Send People to Jail: 2021 Year in Review
  If you're accused of a crime based on an algorithm's analysis of the evidence, you should have a right to refute the assumptions, methods, and programming of that algorithm. Building on previous wins, EFF and its allies turned the tide this year on t…
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• 2021 Year In Review: Sex Online

  

  We don’t entrust Internet companies to be arbiters of morality. We shouldn't hand them the responsibility of making broad cultural decisions about the forms sexuality is allowed to take online. And yet, this last year has been a steady and consiste…
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• Students Are Learning To Resist Surveillance: Year in Review 2021
  It’s been a tough year for students - but a good one for resistance. As schools have shuffled students from in-person education to at-home learning and testing, then back again, the lines between “school” and “home” have been blurred. Thi…
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• Where Net Neutrality Is Today and What Comes Next: 2021 in Review
  When all is said and done—and there are some major steps to take in 2022—the United States will mark 2021 as the last year without federal net neutrality protections. Next year is when we will undo the 2017 repeal and once again put the Federal C…
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• In 2021, We Told Apple: Don't Scan Our Phones
  Strong encryption provides privacy and security for everyone online. We can’t have private conversations, or safe transactions, without it. Encryption is critical to democratic politics and reliable economic transactions around the world. When a co…
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• We Encrypted the Web: 2021 Year in Review
  In 2010, EFF launched its campaign to encrypt the entire web—that is, move all websites from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Over 10 years later, 2021 has brought us even closer to achieving that goal. With various measurement so…
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• The Battle for Communications Privacy in Latin America: 2021 in Review
  Uncovering government surveillance and fighting for robust and effective legal safeguards and oversight is a continuous battle in Latin American countries. Surveillance capabilities and technologies are becoming more intrusive and prevalent, surround…
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• Vaccine Passports: 2021 in Review
  2021 has been the year of vaccines, in light of the continuing worldwide pandemic. It has also been the year of vaccine passports. To fully tell this story, let’s go back to 2020, because the term vaccine passport as many people use it has changed…
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• 2021 Was the Year Lawmakers Tried to Regulate Online Speech
  On the biggest internet platforms, content moderation is bad and getting worse. It’s difficult to get it right, and at the scale of millions or billions of users, it may be impossible. It’s hard enough for humans to sift between spam, illegal con…
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• Stalkerware: 2021 in Review
  Stalkerware—that is, commercially-available apps that can be covertly installed on another person’s device for the purpose of monitoring their activity without their knowledge or consent—is nothing new, but 2021 has underscored just how prevale…
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• The Atlas of Surveillance Turns the Dragnet on Police Tech: 2021 Year in Review

  

  This past year, EFF's Atlas of Surveillance project mobilized hundreds of student journalists and volunteer researchers to turn the tables on police spying by building the largest ever public-facing database of police surveillance technology. As EFF…
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• The Future is in Interoperability Not Big Tech: 2021 in Review
  2021 was not a good year for Big Tech: a flaming cocktail of moderation failings, privacy breaches, leaked nefarious plans, illegal collusion and tone-deaf, arrogant pronouncements stoked public anger and fired up the political will to do something a…
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• Pushing Back on Police Surveillance: 2021 Year in Review
  A year after the police murder of George Floyd, Black-led protests against police violence continue, as does resistance to police departments across the country growing their surveillance toolbelts and unnecessarily amassing troves of personal data.…
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• 2021 Year in Review
  2021 ended up being a time where we dug into our new realities of distributed work and the ever-changing COVID news. At the same time, news continued to come fast and furious, with the events of one week often obliterating memories of the week before…
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• Electronic Frontier Alliance Defending Local Communities: 2021 in Review
  In another year of masking up, local communities have found enough footing to push back on surveillance tech and fight for our digital rights. Members of the Electronic Frontier Alliance have continued to innovate by organizing workshops and training…
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• Support a Better Web for Everyone & Unlock Grants for EFF

  

  During the holiday season you’ll see lots of appeals from worthy causes. Wherever your heart is, there's little doubt that technology amplifies voices and helps build community around the issues that matter most to you. That’s why the Electronic…
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• Podcast Episode: The Life of the (Crypto) Party

  

  Episode 106 of EFF’s How to Fix the InternetSurveillance is always problematic, but it isn’t neutral—it is more often deployed in communities of color than elsewhere. And surveillance technology isn’t objective, either—it often magnifies t…
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• EFF Continues Legal Fight to Release Records Showing How Law Enforcement Uses Cell-site Simulators
  Four years ago, EFF set out on a mission to chase down the paper trail left behind when cops in California use cell-site simulators. This trail has led us to a California appellate court, where next spring we will face-off with San Bernardino County…
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• EFF to Court: Deny Foreign Sovereign Immunity to DarkMatter for Hacking Journalist
  When governments or private companies target someone with malware and facilitate the abuse of their human rights, the victim must be able to hold the bad actors accountable. That’s why, in October, EFF requested that a federal court consider its am…
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• EU's Digital Identity Framework Endangers Browser Security
  If a proposal currently before the European Parliament and Council passes, the security of HTTPS in your browser may get a lot worse. A proposed amendment to Article 45 in the EU’s Digital Identity Framework (eIDAS) would have major, adverse securi…
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