Data Breach

• newData Extrusion Market Size Overview and Share Forecast to 2027 – GTB Technologies Inc ...
  Data extrusion or data exfiltration is an essential security breach when an organization data is copied or transferred without permission within the ...
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• newIraq Says It Will Lower Oil Output to Compensate for OPEC Breach
  Tanker-tracking data suggest Iraq is already selling less crude. Exports slipped to just over 3 million barrels daily in the first 15 days of January, ...
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• newArtificial Intelligence And The Power Sector: A Promising Future
  A report by IBM Security revealed that the average total cost of a data breach fell to $3.86 million in 2020 alone. The world's first successful attack of this ...
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• newGoogle's latest Chrome update is designed to fix your weak passwords
  If you're anything like us, the almost-constant news of data breaches and ... This is why security experts warn against re-using the same login details ...
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• newGlobal Antivirus Software Market Research Report 2020-2026
  Antivirus software is a web security solution that identifies and secures ... Every year, business sectors worldwide suffer increased data breaches, often ...
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Krebs On Security

• DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler

  

  Parler, the beleaguered social network advertised as a "free speech" alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has had a tough month. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from its stores, and Amazon blocked the platform from using its hosting services.…
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• New Charges Derail COVID Release for Hacker Who Aided ISIS

  

  A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S. military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The new charges have dera…
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Naked Security

• US administration adds “subliminal” ad to White House website

  

  Hiding digital "secrets" where they're supposed to be found is good fun. Just don't hide actual secrets and hope no one will notice!
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• S3 Ep16: Darkweb bust, security at home, and browser snoopage [Podcast]

  

  Here's the latest podcast - listen now!
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CSO Online

• BrandPost: Network Security and the Heart of a Zero Trust Architecture

  

  As part of a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity, network flows should be authenticated before being processed and access determined by dynamic policy. A network that is intended to never trust, and to always verify all connections, requires techno…
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• 4 ways security has failed to become a boardroom issue

  

  Somewhere around 2015, the security industry adopted a new mantra, “cybersecurity is a boardroom issue.”  This statement was supported by lots of independent research, business press articles, webinars, local events, and even sessions at RSA and…
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FierceITSecurity

CIO Online

• How DMaaS eliminates data silos and 4 tips for choosing a provider

  

  Digital initiatives come in many flavors and vary widely, but they do have one thing in common and that’s data. That’s why the need to easily manage, analyze, and find key insights—and those “a-ha” moments—from data is critical to achievi…
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• Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2021

  

  Thanks to the tumultuous events of the past year, in 2021 IT professionals will face challenges in the workplace they’ve never seen before. There was no roadmap for taking much of the American workforce remote overnight, and none exists for a large…
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Homeland Security Today

• newWhite House Focuses on Fight Against Domestic Terrorism
  Fears that an untold number of Americans are being radicalized is prompting the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to take a closer look at efforts to counter domestic extremism and at whether enough is being done.
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• newJudge Orders Rittenhouse to Not Associate with Supremacists
  Accused Kenosha shooter cannot knowingly have contact with any person or group known to “harm, threaten, harass or menace others on the basis of their race, beliefs on the subject of religion, color, national origin, or gender.”
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Graham Cluley Latest

• Hackers release over 4,000 files stolen from Scottish environment agency in ransomware attack
  The Conti ransomware gang has published corporate plans, contracts, spreadsheets, and personal information about staff, amongst other files stolen in a ransomware attack against the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).Read more in my arti…
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• Is Joe Biden’s Peloton a cybersecurity risk? Don’t sweat about it
  Joe Biden is now the President of the United States of America, and what are the papers talking about?His internet-connected Peloton exercise bike.
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Multi-State Information Sharing Center

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

• Cisco tags critical security holes in SD-WAN software

  

  Cisco has noted and fixed two critical and a number of high-degree vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN software portfolio.Most of the vulnerabilities could let an authenticated attacker execute command injection attacks against an affected device, which co…
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• Lessons that insurrection selfies hold for legitimate enterprises

  

  The pro-Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol on January 6 came with smartphones to record and celebrate what they thought was a righteous effort to prevent president-elect Joe Biden from taking office two weeks later.Now those electronic devices, al…
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Packet Storm Latest

• Selea CarPlateServer 4.0.1.6 Remote Program Execution
  Selea CarPlateServer (CPS) version 4.0.1.6 suffers from a remote program execution vulnerability.
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• Selea CarPlateServer 4.0.1.6 Local Privilege Escalation
  Selea CarPlateServer (CPS) version 4.0.1.6 suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
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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

• AA21-008A: Detecting Post-Compromise Threat Activity in Microsoft Cloud Environments
  Original release date: January 8, 2021SummaryThis Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques.This Alert is…
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• AA20-352A: Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations
  Original release date: December 17, 2020 | Last revised: January 7, 2021SummaryThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organ…
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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: SolarWinds Orion Platform Software Attack
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• Cisco Event Response: October 2020 Cisco ASA, FMC, and FTD Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication
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HIPPA Omnibus Rule

• SonicWall Investigating Zero-Day Attacks Against Its Products

  

  Company Says Certain VPNs and Gateways Affected By 'Coordinated Attack'Security vendor SonicWall is investigating what the company calls a "coordinated attack" against its internal network by threat actors using a zero-day exploit within the company'…
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• DDoS Attackers Revive Old Campaigns to Extort Ransom

  

  Hackers Circle Back to Again Attack Victims Who Refused to Pay an Earlier Ransom DemandThreat actors behind a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeted the same set of victims again after the organizations refused to pay the initial ransom dema…
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• Fraudsters Are Using Google Forms to Evade Email Filters

  

  Emails Are Likely a Reconnaissance Mission for Future Email CompromiseFraudsters are using Google forms to target retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and manufacturing companies in an apparent reconnaissance campaign to identify targets for a possibl…
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• Biden's COVID-19 Plan Calls for Assessment of Cyberthreats

  

  National Intelligence Director to Lead Effort to Protect VaccinesPresident Joe Biden's COVID-19 response strategy calls for an assessment of "ongoing cyberthreats and foreign interference campaigns targeting COVID-19 vaccines and related public healt…
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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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• Get Security into Your CI/CD Pipeline
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• IT Governance is Broken! - 5 Ways Enterprise Organizations Can Fix It
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• Securing the "New Tomorrow" in Financial Services
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• Webinar | A Look into Cisco Umbrella's Secure Internet Gateway (French Language Webinar)
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• Analysis: How Will Biden Address Cybersecurity Challenges?
  The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the cybersecurity challenges the Biden administration must address. Also featured: payments security advice from Verizon; the outlook for the lifting of restrictions tied to the C…
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• Putting New PACS Guidance to Use
  Recently released NIST guidance aims to help healthcare providers better address the security risks posed by picture archiving and communication systems. Michael Holt, a contributor to the document, describes how to put the guidance to use.
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• Is a US National Privacy Law on the Horizon?
  The prospects for passing a U.S. privacy law will improve under the Biden administration, predicts attorney Kirk Nahra, who offers a legislative outlook.
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• SolarWinds Supply Chain Hack: Investigation Update
  The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report describes new details emerging from the SolarWinds supply chain hack investigation. Also featured: A discussion of why security education is so crucial in 2021 and tips on how to retain security and oper…
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• Police Arrest Suspect in Pelosi Laptop Theft
  Tipster Alleges Woman Planned to Pass Laptop to Russian FriendPolice have arrested Riley June Williams of Pennsylvania, who a tipster alleges stole a laptop or hard drive belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But is the tipsters claim that she had…
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• Health Privacy, Security Priorities in Biden Administration
  Sizing Up What's Ahead for Regulatory Action, HIPAA EnforcementLook for the Biden administration to put health data privacy and security on the front burner next year. Here's what could be in store at the Department of Health and Human Services' Offi…
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• SolarWinds Hack: Is NSA Doing the Same to Russia?
  Espionage Operations Demand a Different Policy Response to Damaging CyberattacksIn light of calls from some quarters for the U.S. to launch online attacks in reprisal for the SolarWinds supply chain campaign - allegedly carried out by Russia's foreig…
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• Target Selection: SolarWinds' Orion 'Big Fish' Most at Risk
  Suspected Cyberespionage Operators Likely Only Hacked the Juiciest of TargetsFollowing the discovery that attackers Trojanized SolarWinds' Orion software, expect the list of organizations that were running the backdoored network-monitoring tool to ke…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Deep Links

• EFF’s Top Recommendations for the Biden Administration
  At noon on January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and he and his staff took over the business of running the country.The tradition of a peaceful transfer of power is as old as the United State…
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• Political Satire Is Protected Speech – Even If You Don’t Get the Joke
  This blog post was co-written by EFF Legal Fellow Houston Davidson.Should an obviously fake Facebook post—one made as political satire—end with a lawsuit and a bill to pay for a police response to the post? Of course not, and that’s why EFF fi…
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• Blyncsy’s Patent On Contact Tracing Isn’t A Medical Breakthrough, It’s A Patent Breakdown
  Stupid Patent of the MonthContact tracing is critical for limiting the spread of a contagion like COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean it’s inventive to compare people’s locations using their smartphones. Rather, it’s all the more important to pr…
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• Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance
  The City of Oakland, California, has once again raised the bar on community control of police surveillance. Last week, Oakland's City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city's already groundbreaking Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinanc…
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• Why EFF Doesn’t Support Bans On Private Use of Face Recognition
  Government and private use of face recognition technology each present a wealth of concerns. Privacy, safety, and amplification of carceral bias are just some of the reasons why we must ban government use.But what about private use? It also can exa…
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• New OCC Rule Is a Win in the Fight Against Financial Censorship
  On Thursday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized its Fair Access to Financial Services rule, which will prevent banks from refusing to serve entire classes of customers that they find politically or morally unsavory. The rule is a…
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• So-called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights
  Imagine this scenario: You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you provide your license and registration, the officer catches you off guard by asking: “Since you’ve got nothing to hide, you don’t mi…
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• It’s Business As Usual At WhatsApp
  WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using the app. At first users were required to agree by February 8th, but after widespread controversy WhatsA…
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• EFF Welcomes Fourth Amendment Defender Jumana Musa to Advisory Board
  Our Fourth Amendment rights are under attack in the digital age, and EFF is proud to announce that human rights attorney and racial justice activist Jumana Musa has joined our advisory board, bringing great expertise to our fight defending users’ p…
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• Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack
  After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this,…
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• Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack
  Last week, following riots that saw supporters of President Trump breach and sack parts of the Capitol building, Facebook and Twitter made the decision to give the president the boot. That was notable enough, given that both companies had previously…
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• The FCC and States Must Ban Digital Redlining

  

  The rollout of fiber broadband will never make it to many communities in the US. That’s because large, national ISPs are currently laying fiber primarily focused on high-income users to the detriment of the rest of their users. The absence of regul…
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• The Government Has All of the Powers It Needs to Find and Prosecute Those Responsible for the Crimes on Capitol Hill This Week
  Perpetrators of the horrific events that took place at the Capitol on January 6 had a clear goal: to undermine the legitimate operations of government, to disrupt the peaceful transition of power, and to intimidate, hurt, and possibly kill those poli…
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• YouTube, Facebook and TikTok Put Human Rights In Jeopardy in Turkey
  UPDATE: Facebook has joined YouTube and TikTok to appoint a legal entity in Turkey to comply with Turkish draconian social media law. Twitter, Periscope, and Pinterest stayed strong against the requirements of the Law. Now, the Turkish regulator (B…
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• California City’s Effort to Punish Journalists For Publishing Documents Widely Available Online is Dangerous and Chilling, EFF Brief Argues
  As part of their jobs, journalists routinely dig through government websites to find newsworthy documents and share them with the broader public. Journalists and Internet users understand that publicly available information on government websites is…
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• ACLU, EFF, and Tarver Law Offices Urge Supreme Court to Protect Against Forced Disclosure of Phone Passwords to Law Enforcement
  Does the Fifth Amendment Protect You from Revealing Your Passwords to Police?Washington, D.C. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with New Jersey-based Tarver Law Offices, are urging the U.S…
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• EFF's Response to Social Media Companies' Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts
  Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for…
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• Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen

  

  The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Instead, a robot snitch that looks like a rolling trash…
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• Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability
  Just as the 2020 holiday season was beginning in earnest, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015's Senate Bill…
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• COVID-19 and Surveillance Tech: Year in Review 2020
  Location tracking apps. Spyware to enforce quarantine. Immunity passports. Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.But heavy-handed tactics like these undercut public…
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• EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing For More Financial Surveillance
  Today, EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments, financial records ca…
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• EFF Statement on British Court’s Rejection of Trump Administration’s Extradition Request for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
  Today, a British judge denied the Trump Administration’s extradition request for Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange, who is facing charges in the United States under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The judge largely confirmed t…
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• Video Hearing Tuesday: ACLU, EFF Urge Court to Require Warrants for Border Searches of Digital Devices
  Appeals Court Should Uphold Fourth Amendment Rights for International TravelersBoston – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the ACLU of Massachusetts will urge an appeals court on Tuesday to requ…
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• A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review
  Here at EFF, we take particular notice of the way that intellectual property law leads to expression being removed from the Internet. We document the worst examples in our Takedown Hall of Shame. Some, we use to explain more complex ideas. And in oth…
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• Banning Government Use of Face Recognition Technology: 2020 Year in Review
  If there was any question about the gravity of problems with police use of face surveillance technology, 2020 wasted no time in proving them dangerously real. Thankfully, from Oregon to Massachusetts, local lawmakers responded by banning their local…
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• DNS, DoH, and ODoH, Oh My: Year-in-Review 2020
  Government knowledge of what sites activists have visited can put them at risk of serious injury, arrest, or even death. This makes it a vitally important priority to secure DNS. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a protocol that encrypts the Domain Name System…
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• Defending Your Rights in Every Reality: Year in Review 2020
  Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies (VR/AR) are rapidly maturing and becoming more prevalent to a wider audience, especially as the pandemic drives more people to virtual activities. This technology provides the promise to entertain a…
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• Questions Remain About Pretrial Risk-Assessment Algorithms: Year in Review 2020
  Californians in November voted to repeal a 2018 law that would have ended cash bail and replaced it with a digital pretrial risk assessment tool that dictates whether a person can be released as they await their trial. By voting No on Proposition 25,…
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• Litigation Against Mass NSA Surveillance: Year in Review 2020
  EFF takes on fights for the long run, and some of our longest running legal fights are focused on bringing the National Security Agency within the rule of law, and batting back the arguments that the state secrets privilege should insulate the govern…
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• Fighting Abusive Patent Litigation During a Year of Health Crisis: 2020 Year In Review
  The coronavirus dominated the news cycles, and our personal lives, in 2020. Scientists around the world raced forward to create a vaccine. Alongside that massive effort to create a critical new invention, we saw a renewed debate about patents and the…
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• Competitive Compatibility: Year in Review 2020
  2020 saw governments on three continents take action against the dominance of the biggest tech platforms, with a flurry of pro-competition rules, investigations and lawsuits. As exciting as this is, it's just the beginning. Antitrust enforcement is o…
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• EFF’s Work in State Legislatures: Year In Review 2020
  EFF works in state legislatures across the country to fight for your civil liberties. This year, the pandemic upended the priorities and plans of every statehouse. But, with your support, EFF was able to quickly respond to surveillance threats, defen…
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• Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review 2020
  As students were sent home from school in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools  followed them home with invasive surveillance technology. This trend, spurred by the surge in remote learning, was an opportunistic move by tech companies…
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• Section 215 Expired: Year in Review 2020
  On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed t…
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• EFF Members Rise Up: 2020 Year in Review

  

  These days it's easy to feel adrift from the people in your life. At times, physical distance alongside social and political unrest seems like a never-ending rising tide. It can feel overwhelming. We have felt it here at EFF, but thankfully during ou…
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• In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security With the “EARN IT” Act
  One nice thing about democracy is that—at least in theory—we don’t need permission to speak freely and privately. We don’t have to prove that our speech meets the government’s criteria, online or offline. We don’t have to “earn” our r…
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• What Comes Next for the Santa Clara Principles: 2020 in Review
  For many years, we have urged platforms to operate with more transparency—both to the public and to their users—and to ensure that the people who use their services have the ability to appeal wrongful content moderation decisions. As such, in con…
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• Surveillance Self-Defense and Security Education: Year in Review 2020
  As the world rapidly changed in 2020, new threats arose to our digital security. The shift to online education and the wave of police brutality protests brought new avenues for surveillance, so EFF created new resources to help people protect themsel…
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• The U.S. Internet Is Being Starved of Its Potential: 2020 in Review

  

  Over a year ago, EFF raised the desperate need for the United States to have a universal fiber infrastructure plan in order to ensure that all Americans can obtain access to 21st century communications technology. Since then, we’ve produced technic…
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• EU and the Digital Services Act: 2020 Year in Review
  While 2019 saw the EU ramming through a disastrous Internet copyright rule that continues to reverberate through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), the most significant refor…
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• Snowden: "We Can Fix a Broken System"
  Below is a message from whistleblower Edward Snowden. His revelations about secret surveillance programs opened the world’s eyes to a new level of government misconduct, and reinvigorated EFF’s continuing work in the courts and with lawmakers to…
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• High Tech Police Surveillance of Protests and Activism: Year in Review 2020
  This summer’s Black-led protest movement against police violence was one of the largest political movements in the history of the United States--and with it, came a massive proliferation of government surveillance technology aimed at activists and…
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• How COVID Changed Content Moderation: Year in Review 2020
  In a year that saw every facet of online life reshaped the coronavirus pandemic, online content moderation and platform censorship were no exception. After a successful Who Has Your Back? campaign in 2019 to encourage large platforms to adopt best p…
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• How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review

  

  If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that man…
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• 2020 in Review
  “Now more than ever,” “in these uncertain times,” “unprecedented”—we’re sure you have seen these words repeated over and over in the last twelve months, including from us here at EFF. They are clichés because they are true. 2020 has…
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• ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating
  One of EFF’s chief concerns about exam proctoring software—in addition to the fact that it subjects students to excessive surveillance—is the risk that it will incorrectly flag students for cheating, called “false positives.” This can be du…
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• The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle
  As we feared, the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act”—the CASE Act—that we’ve been fighting in various forms for two years has been included in a "must-pass" spending bill. This new legislation means Internet users could…
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• Year-End Challenge for Online Rights

  

  You weathered a year that pressed the limits of endurance. But thankfully, the more we leaned on technology to stay connected, the harder EFF members fought to protect privacy, security, and free expression. This collective mission is more meaningful…
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• This Disastrous Copyright Proposal Goes Straight to Our Naughty List
  Just yesterday we saw two wretched copyright bills-the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill -- slipped into law via a must-pass spending bill. But it seems some people in Congress were just getting started. Today, Senator Thom Tillis launched a "disc…
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• EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company
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