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If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch. Nonprofits would not have a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves, and could be targeted without disclosing the reasons or evidence for the decision. 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The case, U.S. v. Smith , involved a traveler who was stopped at Newark airport after returning from a trip to Jamaica. He was detained by...</div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-content-thumbnail"> <span class="field-content"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/10/looking-answer-question-do-i-really-own-digital-media-i-paid"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/feature/public/banner_library/og-digitaldownloads.jpg?itok=t0WE7cvz" width="780" height="390" alt="Record player on top of a bookshelf with colorful music notes above it." /></a></div></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-front-page-identifier"> <div class="field-content node-content-type-byline">FEATURED UPDATE</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-entity-title"> <span class="field-content"><h3><a href="/deeplinks/2024/10/looking-answer-question-do-i-really-own-digital-media-i-paid">Looking for the Answer to the Question, "Do I Really Own the Digital Media I Paid For?"</a> </h3> </span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">There’s quite a few rights you give up by purchasing a digital copy of your favorite game, movie, or album! 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<header> <div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/issues/reproductive-rights"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/highlight/public/issues/repro-rights-hd-1.jpg?itok=pjdq0AHN" width="380" height="190" alt="person in dress holding an ultrasound screen in front of their abdomen which displays keys, with a rainbox in the background" /></a></div><div class="node-content-type-byline issues"><a href="/issues">Issues</a> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/issues/reproductive-rights" rel="bookmark">Reproductive Justice</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-field-issue-term field--type-entityreference field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="taxonomy-term--issues taxonomy-term--term-teaser taxonomy-term--issues--term-teaser"> <div class="taxonomy-term__content"> <div class="field field--name-description-field field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>ترتبط العدالة الإنتاجية والوصول الآمن للإجهاض، كالعديد من الجوانب الأخرى لإدارة رعايتنا الصحية، مرتبطة بشكل أساسي بحياتنا الرقمية. مع قرار دوبز ڤي جاكسون بإلغاء الحماية التي وفرها روي ڤي وايد للأشخاص الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية المتعلقة بالإجهاض، والتي كانت من المعلومات الحميدة قبلا، أصبحت اليوم دليلًا جنائيًا محتملًا. هذا التهديد الموسع للحقوق الرقمية خطير بشكل خاص على الأشخاص السود، السكان الأصليون/ات وذوي البشرة الملونة، وذوي الدخل المنخفض، والمهاجرين/ات، وأفراد مجتمع الميم – عين وغيرهم من المجتمعات المهمشة تقليديًا، ومقدمي الرعاية الصحية الذين يخدمون هذه المجتمعات.في هذه الصفحة، قمنا بتجميع أدلة خصوصية البيانات لأي شخص من المحتمل أن يتأثر: أولئك الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية والعيادات والمهنيين/ات الصحيين/ات المتعلقة بالإجهاض، وكذلك أولئك المشاركين/ات في حركات مناصرة الوصول إلى الإجهاض الآمن. ترتبط هذه الصفحة أيضًا بمساعي وتوصيات منظمة الجبهة الالكترونية إلى الهيئات التشريعية والشركات من أجل حماية أفضل للحقوق الرقمية للأشخاص الذين يحتاجون ويقدمون الرعاية الصحية الإنجابية.شاهد هذا الفيديو القصير حول الأمن الرقمي لحركة الوصول الآمن للإجهاض:</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <article role="article" class="node node--link node--highlight node--link--highlight"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-above"><div class="field__label">Banner Graphic: </div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/digital-rights-bytes"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/highlight/public/2024/10/31/og-digitalrightsbytes.png?itok=znIFZf_S" width="380" height="190" alt="Penguin and cat sitting at the Digitial Rights Bytes diner bar being served by a dog" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline link"><span>Resource</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/digital-rights-bytes" rel="bookmark">Digital Rights Bytes</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-field-link-description field--type-text-long field--label-above"><div class="field__label">Description: </div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Get honest answers to the questions that have been bugging you about technology.</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-views pane-updates"> <h2 class="pane-title">The Latest</h2> <div class="view view-updates view-id-updates view-display-id-updates_block teaser-feed view-dom-id-d080dc42d7eebfe003f0439318d80899"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-senate-dont-weaponize-treasury-department-against-nonprofits"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/congress-action_0.jpg?itok=lnTgrKdl" width="500" height="250" alt="Congress + Action" title="Congress + Action" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/jason-kelley">Jason Kelley</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 27, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-senate-dont-weaponize-treasury-department-against-nonprofits" rel="bookmark">Tell the Senate: Don’t Weaponize the Treasury Department Against Nonprofits</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Last week the House of Representatives <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495/all-actions">passed a dangerous bill</a> that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail" style="background: #009eff"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-tells-second-circuit-second-time-electronic-device-searches-border-require"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/border-search-1.png?itok=Mj4KhSAx" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/sophia-cope">Sophia Cope</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 26, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-tells-second-circuit-second-time-electronic-device-searches-border-require" rel="bookmark">EFF Tells the Second Circuit a Second Time That Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a second <a href="https://www.eff.org/document/us-v-smith-2d-cir-amicus-brief">amicus brief</a> in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches">argument</a> EFF has been making in the <a></a>...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/10/looking-answer-question-do-i-really-own-digital-media-i-paid"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/og-digitaldownloads.jpg?itok=wmhgjQQV" width="500" height="250" alt="Record player on top of a bookshelf with colorful music notes above it." /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/christian-romero-0">Christian Romero</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 26, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/10/looking-answer-question-do-i-really-own-digital-media-i-paid" rel="bookmark">Looking for the Answer to the Question, "Do I Really Own the Digital Media I Paid For?"</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">There’s quite a few rights you give up by purchasing a digital copy of your favorite game, movie, or album! On Digital Rights Bytes we outline the differences between owning physical and digital media, and why we need to break down that barrier.</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/organizing-digital-rights-pacific-northwest"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/efa-starburst-banner.png?itok=lmEi69tm" width="500" height="250" alt="EFA Banner" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/chris-vines">Christopher Vines</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 21, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/organizing-digital-rights-pacific-northwest" rel="bookmark">Organizing for Digital Rights in the Pacific Northwest</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Recently I traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak at the <a href="https://www.peoplesdigitalsafety.org/">PDX People’s Digital Safety Fair,</a> meet up with five groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, and attend BSides PDX 2024. Portland’s first ever Digital Safety Fair was a success and five of our six EFA organizations in the area...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/speaking-freely-anriette-esterhuysen"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/anriette-1.jpg?itok=nB9ypt_-" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/david-greene">David Greene</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 21, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/speaking-freely-anriette-esterhuysen" rel="bookmark">Speaking Freely: Anriette Esterhuysen</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social justice in South Africa and throughout the world, focusing on affordable Internet access. She was the executive director of Association for Progressive...</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/patent-troll-warning.png?itok=vguf0M7v" width="500" height="250" alt="Patent Troll warning sign: Do Not Feed the Troll" title="Patent Troll Warning" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/joe-mullin">Joe Mullin</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 20, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system" rel="bookmark">Oppose The Patent-Troll-Friendly PREVAIL Act</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><strong>Update 11/21/2024: </strong>The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 in favor of <a href="https://www.coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/prevail_act.pdf">PREVAIL,</a> and several senators expressed concerns about the bill. Thanks to EFF supporters who spoke out! We will continue to oppose this misguided bill. Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/us-national-security-state-here-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/ai-soldiers-3b.png?itok=MsbBfulX" width="500" height="250" alt="AI Military" title="AI Military" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/dr-matthew-guariglia-0">Matthew Guariglia</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 19, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/us-national-security-state-here-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable" rel="bookmark">The U.S. National Security State is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that ever-tightening relationship will impact much needed transparency and accountability for private AI and for-profit automated decision making systems.</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/nows-time-start-or-renew-pledge-eff-through-cfc"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/cfc_eff_2020.png?itok=6wavNZam" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/christian-romero-0">Christian Romero</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 19, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/nows-time-start-or-renew-pledge-eff-through-cfc" rel="bookmark">Now's The Time to Start (or Renew) a Pledge for EFF Through the CFC</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pledge period is underway and runs through <strong>January 15, 2024</strong>! If you're a U.S. federal employee or retiree, be sure to show your support for EFF by using our CFC ID <strong>10437</strong>.Not sure how to make a pledge? No problem--it’s easy! First, head over to...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/speaking-freely-marjorie-heins"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/marjorie-banner_0.jpg?itok=gbDKvJJh" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/david-greene">David Greene</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 19, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/speaking-freely-marjorie-heins" rel="bookmark">Speaking Freely: Marjorie Heins</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Marjorie Heins is a writer, former civil rights/civil liberties attorney, and past director of the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) and the American Civil Liberties Union's Arts Censorship Project. She is the author of "Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge," which won the...</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail" style="background: #000000"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/alaa-abd-el-fattahs-43rd-birthday-fight-his-release-continues"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/offline-alaa.png?itok=nsXPT1Tk" width="500" height="250" alt="Portrait of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/jillian-york">Jillian C. York</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | November 18, 2024</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2024/11/alaa-abd-el-fattahs-43rd-birthday-fight-his-release-continues" rel="bookmark">On Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd Birthday, the Fight For His Release Continues</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Today marks prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, activist, and political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd birthday—his eleventh behind bars. 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