Privacy
Our Restore the Fourth friends were promoting a screening of this documentary in Austin a few months ago. Here's the website for the film: https://tacma.net/ And here's the film: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tacma
Events
As anyone who has been keeping up with the news lately can tell you, there are a number of ways the American (and global) public is non-consensually forking over data to government surveillance agencies. While warrantless surveillance is an extremely important topic of discussion, we should also consider our
Events
Albert Einstein is credited with coming up with the observation that "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." He didn't really say that, but actually said something better in 1946 as part
Privacy
TxEPC Action! This Thursday May 9th, the Texas House of Representatives votes on HB1608 to determine whether our state will respect the privacy of your mobile phone geolocation data. Mobile phones are designed to track everywhere they go, and we think law enforcement should have to demonstrate probable cause to
Privacy
Hearings at the Texas Legislature were live tweeted by Gregory Foster for EFF-Austin and TxEPC. [View the story "Public Hearing: Texas SB786 and HB1608" on Storify] Public Hearing: Texas SB786 and HB1608 Cellphone tracking legislation. Storified by Jon Lebkowsky· Wed, Mar 27 2013 08:47:46 #HB1608
Privacy
Law enforcement agencies have been allowed, even encouraged, to follow the actions and movements of citizens more closely at a time when digital technologies have amplified their ability to do so, and laws to protect privacy and ensure that the wheels of justice are not rolling over our rights haven&
Events
In early January of this year, as the Texas state legislature inaugurated its 83rd biennial session, EFF-Austin connected with a group of citizen activists concerned about the hidden exchange of information between telecommunications companies and law enforcement agencies. Together with the ACLU of Texas, Texans for Accountable Government, and
Privacy
EFF-Austin is promoting new legislation to require police to obtain a warrant for cellphone tracking. Police can leverage the technology that allows cellphone signals to reach your phone, and that you can use to find your phone when it's lost, to track your movements. This requires the
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:
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
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: