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Poker & DEF CON: Bet Your Rights at EFF’s Benefit Poker Tournament on August 9 in Vegas

Cory Doctorow will be playing emcee, and writer and security expert Tarah Wheeler will be offering last minute down-and-dirty tips on how to play the game. Have fun; maybe win a little money; maybe lose some. It’s for the Electronic Frontier Foundation…

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Free Software Pioneer and Activist John Gilmore Is Among Three New Board Members at FSF

The Free Software Foundation might be getting itself back on track as the radical watchdog for copyleft and free software with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board of directors.
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Will Geofence Warrants Soon Be a Thing of the Past? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Google this week announced changes to the way it collects and stores user location data that might bring an end to geofence warrants.
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EFF’s Two New Board Members Bring Equality and Security Cred to the Table

Two new seats on EFF’s board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.
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EFF Asks Appeals Court to Find DMCA Provisions Unconstitutional

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is attempting to have some DMCA provisions declared unconstitutional by the courts on First Amendment grounds.
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EFF Argument in Patent Troll Case to Be Livestreamed on Monday

The EFF said that the case involves documents so heavily redacted that no one but the parties involved can understand the case.
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