Events
When: Monday, August 18, 2014 7pm-9pm Where: Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street, Suite 1601, Austin, TX RSVP: Meetup.com This month's meetup will focus on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Several speakers will introduce participants to core cryptocurrency concepts while sharing local innovations in the thriving Bitcoin economy. Several speakers
Privacy
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which is the state supreme court for criminal cases, issued its long-awaited ruling in Texas v. Granville today. The wait was well worth it. The CCA ruled that Texas police can no longer search someone's cell phone without a warrant after they&
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
Privacy
Former EFF-Austin Director Cory Doctorow thinks that there's a war on general purpose computing. Transcript at https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md But it's not as bad as all that. It's not a "war" on GP computers--in fact things
Activism
... it's because of people like Chapman and his colleagues, of whom there were not many, that we have a conceptual framework for talking about things like electronic privacy, or the digital divide, or "virtual community." ~ Mike Clark-Madison, Gary Chapman: 21st Century Digital Man "He was
Free Speech
David Weinberger interviewed Rick Whitt, a Google lawyer and lobbyist, about the proposed Google-Verizon framework. The original post is here.
Events
EFF-Austin presents WhuffieFest, an evening and encounter with Cory Doctorow. (Why do we call it WhuffieFest? Check here.) When: May 20th, 2010, 7pm-midnight Where: Amelia's RetroVogue and Relics, 2213 South 1st Street, Austin Cost: $10 donation to EFF-Austin, a Texas nonprofit (Why do we call it Whuffiefest? Check
Free Speech
Last week, Lawrence Lessig gave a fantastic presentation on how government policies for broadband, cybersecurity and copyright have been corrupted by special interest lobbying. Lessig does a great job explaining why reclassification caused American broadband to fall so far behind the rest of the developed world. This video is well
Activism
Jon Lebkowsky of EFF-Austin will be covering Fiber Fete in Lafayette, Louisiana via Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl. Hashtag is #fiberfete.
Free Speech
From the New York Times: Privacy is central to American law. And in 1986, Congress applied that principle to electronic communications by setting limits on law enforcement access to Internet and wireless technologies. It was a laudable law at the time, but cellphones were still oddities, the Internet was mostly
Activism
The University of Texas' student newspaper, The Daily Texan, covered last night's panel on the 20th anniversary of the Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games. “I got a phone call one morning saying, ‘Steve, the office is full of Secret Service agents, and they’re not
Events
NOTE: Live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/effaustin! March 9, 2010. 7pm-9pm, Independence Brewing. Austin was a hotbed of pioneering Internet activity in the early 1990s, and one event that put us on the Internet map was the March 1, 1990 Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games,