[sudo-discuss] Fwd: It's open. It's access. It's awesome. | EFFector 28.14

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Celebrating Open Access
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When You Work in the Open, Everyone Can Be a Collaborator
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FASTR Ensures that Publicly Funded Research Belongs to the Public
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How Trade Agreements Harm Open Access and Open Source
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We should hardly be surprised that trade agreements are bad news for open
access and open source. But neither should we accept it.

Open Access Is a Human Rights Issue
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EFF Updates

Apple's EULA Gives It License to Invade Your Privacy, Government Claims
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/apples-eula-gives-it-license-invade-your-privacy-government-claims>

When you buy a book, the government can’t demand the publisher or bookstore
turn over the notes you’ve written in the margins. But in a case in the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the
government is currently arguing that the way Apple licenses its software to
users means that people don’t actually own their copy of code that powers
their iPhones, and thus the company can be ordered to bypass the lock
screen in order to get at data on those users’ devices.

Success in Sacramento: Four New Laws, One Veto—All Victories for Privacy
and Transparency
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/success-sacramento-four-new-laws-one-veto-all-victories-privacy-and-transparency>

EFF beefed up its advocacy in Sacramento this year with the aim of moving
the needle forward on digital freedom in the California legislature. We
assembled a team of internal activists and lawyers and hired an excellent
lobbying duo. Now that we’re at the end of the legislative session, we can
say with certainty that our mission was a success.

Suing Newspapers for Rightfully Seeking Records Isn’t Cool, K.J.
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/suing-newspapers-rightfully-seeking-records-isnt-cool-kj>

The mayor of Sacramento, former basketball star Kevin Johnson, is currently
suing the city’s alt weekly to stop reporters from obtaining emails that
may, or may not, reveal improprieties in his office. The case represents an
intersection of two key issues for EFF: transparency and freedom of the
press.

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/lets-encrypt-enters-private-beta>

Our campaign to encrypt the Web took a major step forward this week. The
Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority—which we've been building in
collaboration with teams at Mozilla, ISRG, and others—received a
cross-signature from IdenTrust. As a result, Let's Encrypt certificates are
now valid and trusted by all modern Web browsers. You can see our very
first cert in action at https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org.

Voluntary Practices and Rights Protection Mechanisms: Whitewashing
Censorship at ICANN
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/voluntary-practices-and-rights-protection-mechanisms-whitewashing-censorship-icann>

Ever since the formation of ICANN, public interest advocates have been
engaged in a struggle to assert their influence against an onslaught of
intellectual property lobbyists intent on stacking every committee. Now the
stakes are higher than ever. Will the ICANN of the future be a place that
represents Internet users or just special interests?

How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nsa-attacks-1024-bit-DH>

Security researchers recently presented compelling research suggesting that
the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS,
SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the
Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm with 1024-bit primes. Read our
practical tips for protecting yourself.

Warrantless Searches of California’s Controlled Substance Prescription
Database Threaten Patient Privacy
<https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-california-supreme-court-warrantless-searches-californias-controlled-substance>

EFF urged the California Supreme Court in a recent amicus brief to rule
that law enforcement agents need a warrant to search records revealing
which Californians were prescribed controlled substances to treat
conditions such as anxiety, pain, attention disorders, and insomnia.
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UN Report: Protect Public Disclosures of Wrongdoing
<https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/22/un-report-protect-public-disclosures-wrongdoing>

Human Rights Watch reports on how David Kaye, the UN’s specialist on
freedom of expression and access to information, is calling upon
governments to encourage public exposure of wrongdoing.

A Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History From ISIS
<http://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-could-save-syrian-history-from-isis/>

Wired reports on how Bassel Khartabil is currently missing in military
jail, even as his open data projects are saving Syria's history from ISIS.

Privatizing censorship in fight against extremism is risk to press freedom
<https://cpj.org/blog/2015/10/privatizing-censorship-in-fight-against-extremism-.php>

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on how allowing ill-defined
"extremist" content to be removed from websites without judicial oversight
or due process can too easily become a tool for states interested in
limiting independent reporting and staving off public policy debates.
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Mass Surveillance: A Report Back From the Legal Front Line
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*October 30-31, 2015 Barcelona, Spain*

Policing Technologies: GPS, Mobile Phones and License Plate Readers
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Information Society Project - Law & Technology Speaker Series
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Cindy Cohn, EFF's Executive Director, will speak about the Fourth Amendment
and the NSA's access to the Internet Backbone.

*November 10, 2015 New Haven, CT*

IGF 2015 <https://www.eff.org/event/eff-igf-2015>

EFF's participation in this year's Internet Governance Forum includes
workshops on the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability, net
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