Digital Media – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:39:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png Digital Media – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 The Need To Repackage Cross River Broadcasting Corporation To A Digital Media House https://www.theinfostride.com/the-need-to-repackage-cross-river-broadcasting-corporation-to-a-digital-media-house/ Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:39:13 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=118245 Cross River Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC) is Cross River State’s government radio and television station funded with tax payers money. CRBC has a television station and two radio stations. One in Calabar and the other at Ikom. It is very unfortunate that the only medium through which information is disseminated to the good people of Cross [...]

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]]> Farewell From Shari Steele https://www.theinfostride.com/farewell-from-shari-steele/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:20:07 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/farewell-from-shari-steele/ Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF’s President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992.  As I wrap up things here, I’ve been thinking a lot about where we’ve been and [...]

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]]> The Government Says It Has a Policy on Disclosing Zero-Days, But Where Are the Documents to Prove It? https://www.theinfostride.com/the-government-says-it-has-a-policy-on-disclosing-zero-days-but-where-are-the-documents-to-prove-it/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:20:07 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/the-government-says-it-has-a-policy-on-disclosing-zero-days-but-where-are-the-documents-to-prove-it/ We have known for some time that the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community looks to find and exploit vulnerabilities in commercial software for surveillance purposes. As part of its reluctant, fitful transparency efforts after the Snowden leaks, the government has even officially acknowledged that it sometimes uses so-called zero-days. These statements are intended to [...]

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]]> EFF Files Second Round of Comments on New York’s BitLicense Proposal https://www.theinfostride.com/eff-files-second-round-of-comments-on-new-yorks-bitlicense-proposal/ Sun, 29 Mar 2015 05:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/eff-files-second-round-of-comments-on-new-yorks-bitlicense-proposal/ Today, EFF filed a second round of comments to the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on its proposed regulatory rules for digital currencies like Bitcoin. EFF, the Internet Archive, and reddit filed initial joint comments to NYDFS back in October 2014, opposing the first draft of the “BitLicense” proposal. Thousands of concerned [...]

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]]> Locking In Public Access to Scientific Knowledge by Unlocking Scholarly Research https://www.theinfostride.com/locking-in-public-access-to-scientific-knowledge-by-unlocking-scholarly-research/ Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:20:15 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/locking-in-public-access-to-scientific-knowledge-by-unlocking-scholarly-research/ Promising public access legislation FASTR (Fair Access to Science & Technology Research Act) has been re-introduced by a bipartisan coalition in Congress. Lawmakers now have an important opportunity to strengthen and expand rules that allow taxpayers to freely read articles resulting from research their tax dollars support. EFF continues to encourage legislators to pass this [...]

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]]> Tech Companies and Privacy Advocates to Congress: End Mass Spying Now https://www.theinfostride.com/tech-companies-and-privacy-advocates-to-congress-end-mass-spying-now/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/tech-companies-and-privacy-advocates-to-congress-end-mass-spying-now/ A letter sent from major tech companies and civil society groups demanded Congress end the mass collection of calling records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act before an upcoming June 1 expiration date. The letter was signed by the Reform Government Surveillance coalition; which represents major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo; and, [...]

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]]> Indian Victory Bears Out the Need for the Manila Principles https://www.theinfostride.com/indian-victory-bears-out-the-need-for-the-manila-principles/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/indian-victory-bears-out-the-need-for-the-manila-principles/ This week, on the edges of RightsCon Southeast Asia in Manila, Philippines, digital rights groups from around the world came together for two days of intensive work to finalize a new, ambitious standard to safeguard freedom of expression and innovation online. The approach the document takes to further these objectives is by focusing on the [...]

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]]> International Coalition Launches ‘Manila Principles’ to Protect Freedom of Expression Worldwide https://www.theinfostride.com/international-coalition-launches-manila-principles-to-protect-freedom-of-expression-worldwide/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/international-coalition-launches-manila-principles-to-protect-freedom-of-expression-worldwide/ New ‘Best Practice’ Roadmap to Protect Rights and Promote Innovation Manila – An international coalition launched the “Manila Principles on Internet Liability” today—a roadmap for the global community to protect online freedom of expression and innovation around the world. “All communication across the Internet is facilitated by intermediaries: service providers, social networks, search engines, and [...]

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]]> Facebook Has Clarified its Policies. How About Fixing Them? https://www.theinfostride.com/facebook-has-clarified-its-policies-how-about-fixing-them/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/facebook-has-clarified-its-policies-how-about-fixing-them/ Facebook recently updated its community standards. As the company noted in the announcement accompanying the change, their “policies and standards themselves are not changing,” but that they wanted to provide more clarity to a set of existing rules that have often been misunderstood by users. While some of the changes provide significantly more detail as [...]

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]]> The Need for Care With “Thoughtcrime” https://www.theinfostride.com/the-need-for-care-with-thoughtcrime/ Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/the-need-for-care-with-thoughtcrime/ When does an online fantasy cross the line into criminal conspiracy? That’s the issue the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is currently weighing in United States v. Gilberto Valle, the so-called “cannibal cop” case. EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Valle today, arguing that finding him guilty of conspiracy based on his online [...]

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]]> Twenty-four Million Wikipedia Users Can’t Be Wrong: Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance https://www.theinfostride.com/twenty-four-million-wikipedia-users-cant-be-wrong-important-allies-join-the-fight-against-nsa-internet-backbone-surveillance/ Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/twenty-four-million-wikipedia-users-cant-be-wrong-important-allies-join-the-fight-against-nsa-internet-backbone-surveillance/ Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on behalf of Wikimedia and a number of other media and human rights organizations. We applaud all of those involved in bringing the case.  It adds another avenue of attack on one of the NSA’s most [...]

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]]> The Foilies Round 3: Ridiculous Redactions and Records Errata https://www.theinfostride.com/the-foilies-round-3-ridiculous-redactions-and-records-errata/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:20:29 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/the-foilies-round-3-ridiculous-redactions-and-records-errata/ Government agencies sure love their black markers. For transparency activists, receiving overly redacted documents is a guilty pleasure. Sure, we’d all prefer to have the records unmarred by secrecy (except for narrow occasions, such as when the black-outs legitimately protect people’s privacy), but sometimes those redactions are the first indication that we’ve hit pay dirt. [...]

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]]> EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents https://www.theinfostride.com/eff-asks-pto-to-stop-issuing-abstract-software-patents/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/eff-asks-pto-to-stop-issuing-abstract-software-patents/ The Supreme Court took a major step in cutting back on abstract software patents last June when it issued its landmark ruling in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. In essence, the court said that abstract ideas implemented by conventional computer process are not eligible for patent protection. Since then, the PTO has attempted to write [...]

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]]> A European Digital Single Market Is Only Possible if Internet Users Are Heard https://www.theinfostride.com/a-european-digital-single-market-is-only-possible-if-internet-users-are-heard/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/a-european-digital-single-market-is-only-possible-if-internet-users-are-heard/ Last year, the current President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Junker, declared that his number one priority was to “create a digital single market for consumers and businesses,” in which “consumers can access music, movies and sports events on their electronic devices wherever they are in Europe and regardless of borders”. This is a dream [...]

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]]> Oakland’s Public Safety Committee to Consider Resident Comments on Privacy Policy https://www.theinfostride.com/oaklands-public-safety-committee-to-consider-resident-comments-on-privacy-policy/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/oaklands-public-safety-committee-to-consider-resident-comments-on-privacy-policy/ When was the last time you can remember your city government asking for feedback on privacy? What about the last time you could comment on privacy online, rather than attending a meeting? If you are a resident of Oakland, CA, you can comment right now on how you’d like to see the city handle the [...]

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]]> Canadians Rally to Defend Their Freedom: A Day of Action to Stop Bill C-51 https://www.theinfostride.com/canadians-rally-to-defend-their-freedom-a-day-of-action-to-stop-bill-c-51/ Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/canadians-rally-to-defend-their-freedom-a-day-of-action-to-stop-bill-c-51/ EFF is encouraging Canadians to join together tomorrow for a day of action against a dangerous bill that’s navigating through the Canadian legislature and threatening to strip its citizens of their rights to privacy and freedom of expression. Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, introduces a wide range of sweeping changes to how the Canadian government handles its national [...]

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]]> Today’s Net Neutrality Order is a Win, with a Few Blemishes https://www.theinfostride.com/todays-net-neutrality-order-is-a-win-with-a-few-blemishes/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/todays-net-neutrality-order-is-a-win-with-a-few-blemishes/ Today, the FCC published its new order [PDF] on net neutrality.  As promised, the rules start by putting net neutrality on the right legal footing, which means they have a much stronger chance of surviving the inevitable legal challenge.  This is the culmination of years of work by public interest advocates and a massive outpouring [...]

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]]> The Blurred Lines Copyright Verdict is Bad News for Music https://www.theinfostride.com/the-blurred-lines-copyright-verdict-is-bad-news-for-music/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/the-blurred-lines-copyright-verdict-is-bad-news-for-music/ Yesterday, a jury found that the 2013 song “Blurred Lines” was an infringement of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” composition from 1977. Following the 7-million-dollar verdict, professional musicians are waking up to a fact that ordinary Internet users have long known: our overbearing copyright laws are a threat to creativity. Numerous musicians are [...]

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]]> Guess Who Wasn't Invited to the CIA’s Hacker Jamboree? https://www.theinfostride.com/guess-who-wasnt-invited-to-the-cias-hacker-jamboree/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:20:15 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/guess-who-wasnt-invited-to-the-cias-hacker-jamboree/ Apple, that’s who. Or Microsoft, or any of the other vendors whose products US government contractors have successfully exploited according to a recent report in the Intercept. While we’re not surprised that the Intelligence Community is actively attempting to develop new spycraft tools and capabilities—that’s their job—we expect them to follow the administration’s rules of [...]

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]]> Violating an Employer’s Computer Use Restriction Is Not a Federal Crime https://www.theinfostride.com/violating-an-employers-computer-use-restriction-is-not-a-federal-crime/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/violating-an-employers-computer-use-restriction-is-not-a-federal-crime/ Ugly facts often make bad law. But it’s important to not let opinions about the specific defendants that appear in court influence how the law will be applied to millions of other individuals. That’s why today, EFF filed an amicus brief urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a dangerous decision that would make [...]

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]]> The White House Has Gone Full Doublespeak on Fast Track and the TPP https://www.theinfostride.com/the-white-house-has-gone-full-doublespeak-on-fast-track-and-the-tpp/ Sat, 07 Mar 2015 06:20:20 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/the-white-house-has-gone-full-doublespeak-on-fast-track-and-the-tpp/ Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Orrin Hatch are now in a stand-off over a bill that would put secretive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on the Fast Track to passage through Congress. The White House meanwhile, has intensified their propaganda campaign, going so far as to mislead the public about how trade [...]

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]]> Government Clarifies Its Stance on NSL Gag Orders https://www.theinfostride.com/government-clarifies-its-stance-on-nsl-gag-orders/ Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/government-clarifies-its-stance-on-nsl-gag-orders/ It seems the government doesn’t know where it stands when it comes to national security letters (NSLs). National security letters are the investigative tool that the FBI uses to obtain information from companies as part of national security-related investigations. NSLs never have to be reviewed by a judge before being issued, and they almost always [...]

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]]> EFF Joins Civil Society and Computer Security Experts to Call for Rejection of Flawed Cybersecurity Legislation https://www.theinfostride.com/eff-joins-civil-society-and-computer-security-experts-to-call-for-rejection-of-flawed-cybersecurity-legislation/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/eff-joins-civil-society-and-computer-security-experts-to-call-for-rejection-of-flawed-cybersecurity-legislation/ EFF has joined 26 civil society organizations and 22 computer security experts in a letter that calls on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to reject the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA). CISA, currently only available in draft form, is yet another iteration of the infamous Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), [...]

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]]> EFF to UN: You Need a Privacy Watchdog https://www.theinfostride.com/eff-to-un-you-need-a-privacy-watchdog/ Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:20:19 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/eff-to-un-you-need-a-privacy-watchdog/ EFF joined more than sixty civil liberties organizations and public interest groups from across the world yesterday in calling upon the world’s governments to support the creation of a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. The special rapporteurs are independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council and serve in their personal [...]

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]]> In Response to EFF Lawsuit, Government Scheduled to Release More Secret Court Opinions on NSA Surveillance https://www.theinfostride.com/in-response-to-eff-lawsuit-government-scheduled-to-release-more-secret-court-opinions-on-nsa-surveillance/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:20:28 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/03/in-response-to-eff-lawsuit-government-scheduled-to-release-more-secret-court-opinions-on-nsa-surveillance/ UPDATE: Late tonight, the government released to EFF the “Raw Take” opinion and the 2008 FAA opinion, described below. Those opinions are available here (pdf) and here (pdf). We are reviewing the documents and will post our analysis, along with other documents released by the government, shortly. Later today, the government is scheduled to release [...]

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]]> Stupid Patent of the Month: Attorney “Inventor” Games the System https://www.theinfostride.com/stupid-patent-of-the-month-attorney-inventor-games-the-system/ Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/stupid-patent-of-the-month-attorney-inventor-games-the-system/ The worst patent trolls bring weak cases and use the cost of defending a lawsuit as leverage to force settlements. A company called Joao Bock Transaction Systems LLC (“JBTS”) has elevated this business model to an art form. The company is associated with patent attorney and prolific “inventor” Raymond Joao. Apparently not content with drafting [...]

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]]> Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP so It's Time to Act Now https://www.theinfostride.com/congress-is-poised-to-introduce-a-bill-to-fast-track-tpp-so-its-time-to-act-now/ Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:20:15 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/congress-is-poised-to-introduce-a-bill-to-fast-track-tpp-so-its-time-to-act-now/ The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are stalling while the White House assures its trading partners that this secret trade agreement won’t be amended when it comes back to Congress for ratification after the President signs the deal. That’s why the Executive is scrambling to get its allies in Congress to pass Fast Track. If they [...]

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]]> Marco Civil Da Internet: The Devil in the Detail https://www.theinfostride.com/marco-civil-da-internet-the-devil-in-the-detail/ Thu, 26 Feb 2015 06:22:02 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/marco-civil-da-internet-the-devil-in-the-detail/ On April 24, 2014, Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, signed Marco Civil Da Internet, a civil-rights based framework for the Internet which Brazilian activists have long fought. Dubbed the “Internet Constitution,” the law seeks to reinforce the protection of fundamental freedoms in the digital age. The law was developed through a participatory process, but not without [...]

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]]> Vote for EFF in reddit's Charity Drive https://www.theinfostride.com/vote-for-eff-in-reddits-charity-drive/ Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/vote-for-eff-in-reddits-charity-drive/ If you have a user account on Reddit1, you can help EFF receive a big donation as part of their charity drive! Visit https://www.reddit.com/donate and vote for EFF on that page. Our friends at reddit made a generous promise at the beginning of 2014: “Today we are announcing that we will donate 10% of our [...]

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]]> Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague "General Conduct" Rule https://www.theinfostride.com/dear-fcc-rethink-the-vague-general-conduct-rule/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:20:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/dear-fcc-rethink-the-vague-general-conduct-rule/ For many months, EFF has been working with a broad coalition of advocates to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new Open Internet rules that would survive legal scrutiny and actually help protect the Open Internet. Our message has been clear from the beginning: the FCC has a role to play, but its role [...]

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]]> Hollywood Lobby Group's Creepy "Open Love Letter" to the TPP https://www.theinfostride.com/hollywood-lobby-groups-creepy-open-love-letter-to-the-tpp/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/hollywood-lobby-groups-creepy-open-love-letter-to-the-tpp/ We didn’t know how much copyright maximalists longed for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement—until we saw this creepy “open love letter” to the TPP from one of the biggest, most powerful copyright lobby groups, the Global Intellectual Property Center. We couldn’t have made this up if we tried. Here’s one part of it: You know, [...]

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]]> Laura Poitras' CITIZENFOUR Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 https://www.theinfostride.com/laura-poitras-citizenfour-awarded-oscar-for-best-documentary-in-2014/ Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:20:09 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/laura-poitras-citizenfour-awarded-oscar-for-best-documentary-in-2014/ CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ riveting documentary about Edward Snowden’s efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tonight’s Oscar win recognizes not only the incredible cinematography of Poitras, but also her daring work with a high-stakes whistleblower and [...]

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]]> How to Remove Superfish Adware From Your Lenovo Computer https://www.theinfostride.com/how-to-remove-superfish-adware-from-your-lenovo-computer/ Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:20:22 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/how-to-remove-superfish-adware-from-your-lenovo-computer/ We recently learned that PC manufacturer Lenovo is selling computers preinstalled with a dangerous piece of software, called Superfish, that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to break Windows’ encrypted Web connections for the sake of advertising. (Here’s a list of affected products.) Research from EFF’s Decentralized SSL Observatory has seen many thousands of Superfish certificates that [...]

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]]> Success! General License Allows Export of Communications Tools to Sudan https://www.theinfostride.com/success-general-license-allows-export-of-communications-tools-to-sudan/ Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/success-general-license-allows-export-of-communications-tools-to-sudan/ Fighting against the sanctions regime for the right to information and innovation can sometimes feel like a cat and mouse game, but today, citizens of sudan are like the cats that got the cream. After years of campaigning from Sudanese and international activists alike, a success: The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) at the [...]

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]]> Anonymous Companies Fighting National Security Letters Back Twitter’s NSL Battle https://www.theinfostride.com/anonymous-companies-fighting-national-security-letters-back-twitters-nsl-battle/ Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/anonymous-companies-fighting-national-security-letters-back-twitters-nsl-battle/ EFF’s Clients’ Identities Must Remain Secret, But Still Speak Out About Unconstitutional Gag Orders San Francisco – Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for information known as national security letters (NSLs) are backing Twitter’s lawsuit over its rights to publish information about NSLs it may have received. The [...]

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]]> EFF Calls on Syrian Government to Release Human Rights Defenders https://www.theinfostride.com/eff-calls-on-syrian-government-to-release-human-rights-defenders/ Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:20:04 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/eff-calls-on-syrian-government-to-release-human-rights-defenders/ EFF has joined seventy human rights and free speech organizations in calling on the Syrian government to release Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghrer, three free speech activists who were arrested on February 16, 2012 in a raid on the offices of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM). Darwish is [...]

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]]> Facebook's Name Policy Strikes Again, This Time at Native Americans https://www.theinfostride.com/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-this-time-at-native-americans/ Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:20:04 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-this-time-at-native-americans/ What do drag queens, burlesque performers, human rights activists in Vietnam and Syria, and Native Americans have in common? They have all been the targets of “real names” enforcement on Facebook. And despite reports from the media last year that seemed to indicate that Facebook has “fixed” the issue, they’re still being targeted. The account [...]

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]]> Go to Prison for Sharing Files? That's What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal https://www.theinfostride.com/go-to-prison-for-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-in-the-secret-tpp-deal/ Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/go-to-prison-for-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-in-the-secret-tpp-deal/ The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to [...]

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]]> Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook https://www.theinfostride.com/hundreds-of-south-carolina-inmates-sent-to-solitary-confinement-over-facebook/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:20:07 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/hundreds-of-south-carolina-inmates-sent-to-solitary-confinement-over-facebook/ In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking. Back in 2012, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) made “Creating and/or Assisting With A Social Networking Site” a Level 1 offense [PDF], a category reserved for the most violent violations of prison conduct [...]

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]]> El Anonimato y El Cifrado Son Los Guardianes De La Libertad de Expresión https://www.theinfostride.com/el-anonimato-y-el-cifrado-son-los-guardianes-de-la-libertad-de-expresion/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/el-anonimato-y-el-cifrado-son-los-guardianes-de-la-libertad-de-expresion/ En junio del 2015, el watchdog de la libertad de expresión de las Naciones Unidas, David Kaye, presentará un nuevo informe sobre el anonimato y el cifrado ante los 47 Estados miembros del Consejo de Derechos Humanos con sede en Ginebra. Ayer, EFF presentó un informe instando al Sr. Kaye a reafirmar la libertad de [...]

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]]> Big Brother Is Listening: Users Need the Ability To Teach Smart TVs New Lessons https://www.theinfostride.com/big-brother-is-listening-users-need-the-ability-to-teach-smart-tvs-new-lessons/ Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:20:17 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/big-brother-is-listening-users-need-the-ability-to-teach-smart-tvs-new-lessons/ As the devices in our homes get “smarter,” are they also going to spy on us? That question has led to one sentence in Samsung’s SmartTV privacy policy getting a lot of attention lately: Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data [...]

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]]> A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose For 20 Years Under the TPP https://www.theinfostride.com/a-few-global-cultural-treasures-we-will-lose-for-20-years-under-the-tpp/ Wed, 11 Feb 2015 06:20:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/a-few-global-cultural-treasures-we-will-lose-for-20-years-under-the-tpp/ What do Japan’s Blue Sky Library, Malaysia’s answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries’ public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) holds. You may have read [...]

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]]> An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running https://www.theinfostride.com/an-exemption-to-the-dmca-would-let-game-fans-keep-abandoned-games-running/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/02/an-exemption-to-the-dmca-would-let-game-fans-keep-abandoned-games-running/ When you buy a video game, you expect to be able to play it for as long as you want. You expect be able to play it with your kids many years from now if you want (well, maybe not Grand Theft Auto).  And you would hope that museums and media historians could preserve the [...]

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]]> Youtube Ditches Flash, and it Hardly Matters: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss https://www.theinfostride.com/youtube-ditches-flash-and-it-hardly-matters-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/youtube-ditches-flash-and-it-hardly-matters-meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/ Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose hundreds of millions of Internet users to attacks [...]

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]]> Unpacking France's Chilling Proposal to Hold Companies Accountable for Speech https://www.theinfostride.com/unpacking-frances-chilling-proposal-to-hold-companies-accountable-for-speech/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:20:04 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/unpacking-frances-chilling-proposal-to-hold-companies-accountable-for-speech/ France’s misguided efforts to grapple with hate speech—which is already prohibited by French law—have been making headlines for years. In 2012, after an horrific attack on a Jewish school, then-president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed criminal penalties for anyone visiting websites that contain hate speech. An anti-terror law passed in December imposes greater penalties on those that [...]

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]]> In a First, Government Acknowledges the Limits of Section 215 https://www.theinfostride.com/in-a-first-government-acknowledges-the-limits-of-section-215/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 06:20:04 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/in-a-first-government-acknowledges-the-limits-of-section-215/ Following EFF’s victory in a four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government released an opinion (pdf), written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2010, that concluded that Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on to collect millions of Americans’ phone records—does have a limit: census data. The Commerce [...]

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]]> Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to NSA: Why is Bulk Collection of Telephone Records Still Happening? https://www.theinfostride.com/privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-to-nsa-why-is-bulk-collection-of-telephone-records-still-happening/ Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-to-nsa-why-is-bulk-collection-of-telephone-records-still-happening/ The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) exists to ensure that national security does not trump privacy and civil liberties, and it has been especially busy since the publication of the first Snowden leak. Congress and the President asked the Board to review the use of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section [...]

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]]> Secure Our Borders First Act Would Ensure Proliferation of Drones at the Border https://www.theinfostride.com/secure-our-borders-first-act-would-ensure-proliferation-of-drones-at-the-border/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:20:06 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/secure-our-borders-first-act-would-ensure-proliferation-of-drones-at-the-border/ Security shouldn’t be a synonym for giving up civil liberties. But bills like HR 399 show that lawmakers think it is. The Secure Our Borders First Act is an ugly piece of legislation that’s clearly intended to strongarm the Department of Homeland Security into dealing with the border in a very particular way—with drones and [...]

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]]> Under Senate Pressure, Verizon Plans Supercookie Opt-Out https://www.theinfostride.com/under-senate-pressure-verizon-plans-supercookie-opt-out/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 06:20:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/02/under-senate-pressure-verizon-plans-supercookie-opt-out/ Verizon told the New York Times on Friday that it plans to begin allowing its customers to opt out of its privacy-invasive header injection program. For customers that are aware of the Verizon program and visit the opt-out page, this means they will soon be able to protect themselves against privacy circumvention like Turn’s zombie [...]

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]]> Battle Over Google Subpoena Threatens Critical Online Free Speech Protections https://www.theinfostride.com/battle-over-google-subpoena-threatens-critical-online-free-speech-protections/ Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:20:06 +0000 http://www.theinfostrides.com/2015/01/battle-over-google-subpoena-threatens-critical-online-free-speech-protections/ Federal Law Blocks Extraordinary and Burdensome Subpoena San Francisco – A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises fundamental concerns about federal free speech law and the protections it affords hosts of online content, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued in an amicus brief filed today. Attorney General [...]

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