Events
EFF Austin is about as ready as we can be to start up monthly meetings again. That's the kind of frank honesty we'd like to cultivate when it comes to all of our activities. We're a volunteer-run organization and all of the board
Privacy
Guardian UK: "Washington looks set to wave through new cybersecurity legislation next week that opponents fear will wipe out decades of privacy protections at a stroke." EFF has an action page here. EFF's infographic:
Creativity and Innovation
Motherboard TV documentary about Free Network Foundation. More information here.
Privacy
Austin's KXAN interviewed EFF-Austin president Jon Lebkowsky for a story on Google's consolidated privacy policy. They didn't quite get our point that this is not really a huge change - they've just created a consolidated privacy policy that applies to most of
Events
Events
Bruce Sterling will give away and sign some of his books Saturday 5pm-7pm at ATX Hackerspace, 1601 Rutherford Lane, Suite A200 in Austin. Sponsored by EFF-Austin. Drop by, hang out, get to know Hackerspace, walk away with a signed volume of sci fi or hacker crackdown journalism. ATX
Events
Privacy
Being a sequence of quotations from contemporary articles contextualizing the visit of the rising Vice President of China amidst a conspicuously timed introduction of unprecedented domestic cybersecurity legislation. National Post Full Comment (Feb 14) - "From bitter gruel, Xi Jinping to ascend to China's top job" by
Privacy
A website called "Frugal Dad" offers this infographic covering various issues of online privacy:
Activism
Clay Shirky has the best overview I've seen/heard/read of PIPA and SOPA and the context from whence they emerged: Bottom line: the legilsation's about wanting us to be passive consumers, not producing and not sharing.
Activism
I put on my $DAYJOB CTO hat for Midas Green Tech and facilitated a conference call with Sean McLaughlin, the Chief of Staff for the Judiciary Committee, and executives from CoreNAP and DataFoundry today. Sad to say, it's not dead yet. The "Internet experts hearing" that
Activism
EFF-Austin just received this press release from the Computer and Communications Industry Association: Contact: Heather Greenfield 202-783-0070 ext 113 hgreenfield@ccianet.org Ed Black 202-783-0070 ext 110 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 2012 Washington - Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has put out a statement may