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Today, 4 March, ARTICLE 19 and Coding Rights are launching Net of Rights, a short film which explores the link between internet protocols and human rights online. The film will screen at 6pm at the Internet Freedom Festival, or can be seen on the Net of Rights website. || Le film téléchargeable https://hrpc.io/net-of-rights/
The FCC wants to require device makers to lock down the software and firmware on computers with radio devices (wifi, bluetooth, etc) and we need to stop them. #savewifi
The FCC has proposed rules (ET Docket No. 15-170) that will require device makers with WiFi and other Radio Frequency (RF) devices to cryptographically lock down the RF-controlling software on those devices so as to prevent users from installing the software of their choice. This means not only routers, but also many phones, tablets, laptops, and any number of new devices that are wifi capable would now be required to implement a low level DRM system that prevents users from re-flashing or modifying the operating system and/or firmware on those devices.
We have been fighting for years the unjust laws that serve to protect companies that use DRM to restrict users. This new regulation goes beyond protecting those who use DRM, this would be a law requiring device makers to implement low level DRM technology to restrict users from upgrading the operating system and/or firmware of many devices.
Fortunately, the FCC is accepting public comments on this issue. The deadline for comments is September 8th, so we need to act quickly.[1] Thanks to people from OpenWRT, ThinkPenguin, LibreCMC, and elsewhere, we already have some momentum building around this issue. But we need to come at this problem both singularly and together by growing a coalition that helps spread a more unified message to the FCC as well as encouraging supporters of those organizations and groups to submit comments to the FCC.
FF has noted and protested when authorities deliberately cut off Internet access in times of unrest. As a restraint on the freedom of expression of those affected, communication blackouts during protests are unconscionable. But recent research by Anita Gohdes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim, suggests that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression.
All indications are that this lapse will be temporary and that the Senate will soon pass the USA FREEDOM Act, which has small but important improvements over the now-lapsed section 215 and important additional transparency to the secret FISA court. USA Freedom passed the House with overwhelming support. EFF is neutral on USA Freedom—we think that Congress can do much better and should, but we’re still now in a much better place than we’ve been since the 1970s with regard to Congressional action reining in the NSA. [...] But tonight, this is a historic baby step. We should all pause and for us at EFF who’ve been fighting mass surveillance since 2006, take a moment to smile.
Au Parlement français, chaque discussion impliquant l'un des cavaliers de l'infocalypse (propos haineux, pédopornographie, blanchiment d'argent, drogue, terrorisme…) s'accompagne de velléités d'extension de la LCEN, la « Loi pour la Confiance dans l'Économie Numérique ». Si cette loi tentait à l'origine d'exonérer les intermédiaires techniques du Net de la responsabilité des propos diffusés par leurs utilisateurs, les dérives jurisprudentielles confortées par des extensions législatives ont abouti à contraindre ces acteurs à censurer aveuglement des contenus dont ils sont incompétents pour déterminer l'illicéité. Malheureusement, nos élus s'accordent pour allonger sans cesse la liste des contenus concernés par cette loi et aggravent ses dérives, plutôt que d'opter pour des solutions efficaces et respectueuses de nos droits fondamentaux. Quitte à suivre un énième débat évoquant la LCEN, autant en profiter pour rire : imprimez votre grille et chaque fois qu'un orateur prononce un terme équivalent à ceux inscrits dans la grille, cochez la case correspondante. Le premier joueur à avoir coché 5 cases alignées remporte la partie. Rechargez la page pour obtenir une nouvelle grille.
As technologies that facilitate State surveillance of communications advance, States are failing to ensure that laws, regulations, activities, powers, and authorities related to Communications Surveillance adhere to international human rights law and standards. This document attempts to clarify how international human rights law applies in the current digital environment, particularly in light of the increase in and changes to Communications Surveillance technologies and techniques. These principles can provide civil society groups, industry, States, and others with a framework to evaluate whether current or proposed surveillance laws and practices are consistent with human rights.
These principles are the outcome of a global consultation with civil society groups, industry, and international experts in Communications Surveillance law, policy, and technology.
For years, we’ve been working on a strategy to end mass surveillance of digital communications of innocent people worldwide. Today we’re laying out the plan, so you can understand how all the pieces fit together—that is, how U.S. advocacy and policy efforts connect to the international fight and vice versa. Decide for yourself where you can get involved to make the biggest difference.
This plan isn’t for the next two weeks or three months. It’s a multi-year battle that may need to be revised many times as we better understand the tools and authorities of entities engaged in mass surveillance and as more disclosures by whistleblowers help shine light on surveillance abuses.
«There are numerous instances in which countries enacted sweeping new laws in the wake of an attack or in response to a threat, when grief and fear outweighed commitments to freedom of expression and privacy. The consequences can be far reaching. In the United Kingdom, the government swiftly revised police powers with the Terrorist Act of 2006 in the wake of bombings in London. In Australia, new legislative measures were introduced in response to a foiled terrorism plot. In 2012, Iraq tried to quickly push through a set of strict “cybercrime” laws in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings. And in the U.S., the 9/11 attacks were used to justify poorly considered legislation that significantly broadened surveillance authorities. Already, U.S. senators are using the Paris attacks to justify mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency. Let us defend freedom of expression by committing to uphold all rights. »
Une nouvelle autorité de certification par Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, EFF et IdenTrust : "It’s free, automated, and open."
Prévu pour l'été 2015.
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EFF mis à jour son guide de Sel Defense Numérique
A proposed anti-terrorism law in France has freedom of expression advocates concerned. The bill, as our friends at La Quadrature du Net frame it, “institutes a permanent state of emergency on the Internet,” providing for harsher penalties for incitement or “glorification” of terrorism conducted online. Furthermore, the bill (in Article 9) allows for “the possibility for the administrative authority to require Internet service providers to block access to sites inciting or apologizing for terrorism” without distinguishing criteria or an authority to conduct the blocking.
Nous ne pouvons pas faire confiance aux gouvernements et encore moins aux entreprises pour assurer notre sécurité et notre vie privée. Nous pouvons, par contre, nous appuyer sur la société civile (comme l'EFF (eff.org) ou La Quadrature du Net, les lanceurs d'alerte (comme Chelsea Manning ou Edward Snowden) et sur des outils qui ne nous trahiront pas, comme les logiciels libres. La cryptographie fonctionne ! Et c'est une des nouvelles importantes de ces révélations. Il existe des tutoriaux partout sur le net pour se mettre à chiffrer ses communications. Je vous laisse aller voir OTR pour Jabber (messagerie instantanée), SSL/TLS pour à peu près tout (mails, chat,...), GPG (qui demande un niveau technique un peu supérieur), Tor, et surtout, surtout, je vous invite à venir à des cryptoparty / café vie privée pour apprendre à s'en servir :)
At the Hackers on Planet Earth conference next month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to release software designed to let you share a portion of your Wi-Fi network, password-free, with anyone nearby. The initiative, part of the OpenWireless.org campaign, will maintain its own flavor of free, open-source router firmware called Open Wireless Router. Good Samaritans can install this firmware on a cheap Wi-Fi router, creating a public slice of bandwidth that can dialed up or down with a simple smartphone interface.
At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don't endorse all of their arguments, but we find they've added some valuable insight to the conversation around the areas and issues on which we work.
Some notes about this list: it's presented in alphabetical order by author's last name, and the links contain our Amazon affiliate code, which means EFF will receive a portion of purchases made through this page.
La nécessité d’adapter les lois garantissant les droits fondamentaux face à l’évolution des technologies de surveillance se fait ressentir depuis quelques temps déjà. Rien ne pourrait mieux démontrer l’urgence de la situation que les récentes révélations confirmant l’existence de la surveillance massive d’individus innocents partout dans le monde.
Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer aujourd’hui le lancement officiel des “Principes Internationaux sur l’Application des Droits de l’Homme à la Surveillance des Communications”.
Les principes reprennent ce que la législation internationale relative aux droits de l’homme - qui lie tous les pays de la planète - exige des gouvernements à l’ère du numérique. Ils s'inscrivent dans un constat qui se vérifie chaque jour un peu plus : la surveillance a dépassé les limites et doit être réfrénée. Ils apportent également des repères que les gens du monde entier peuvent désormais utiliser pour évaluer et demander des changements dans leur propre systèmes légaux.
On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the "playback of protected content" was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group's new charter, overriding EFF's formal objection against its inclusion. This means the controversial Encrypted Media Extension (EME) proposal will continue to be part of that group's work product, and may be included in the W3C's HTML5.1 standard. If EME goes through to become part of a W3C recommendation, you can expect to hear DRM vendors, DRM-locked content providers like Netflix, and browser makers like Microsoft, Opera, and Google stating that they can now offer W3C standards compliant "content protection" for Web video.
The Tahoe Least Authority File System (Tahoe-LAFS) has been actively developed since 2007. Just as Tor concentrates on anonymity, Tahoe-LAFS's developers have worked hard to create a resilient, decentralized, infrastructure that lets you store online both data you'd want to keep private, as well as data you want to share with selected groups of friends. It's also able to protect against a single source of failure or censorship, like a commercial service being attacked or responding to a takedown.