{"id":3740,"date":"2013-12-04T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:08","slug":"effs-2013-holiday-wishlist-electronic-frontier-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/04\/effs-2013-holiday-wishlist-electronic-frontier-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF&#8217;s 2013 Holiday Wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-eff-node-title\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<h2 class=\"node-title\">EFF&#8217;s 2013 Holiday Wishlist<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/12\/effs-2012-holiday-wish-list\">last year<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/12\/effs-holiday-wish-list\">year before<\/a>, EFF welcomes the winter season with a new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">wishlist<\/span> of some things we&#8217;d love to have happen for the holidays\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor us and for all Internet users. These are some of the actions we&#8217;d most like to see from companies, governments, organizations, and individuals in the new year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Citizens, organizations, privacy officials, and governments should unite around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necessaryandproportionate.org\/\">International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance<\/a> and <strong>add their voices to declare that mass surveillance violates international human rights<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Congress should create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/06\/response-nsa-we-need-new-church-commission-and-we-need-it-now\">a <strong>new Church Committee<\/strong> to find out what intelligence agencies are actually doing<\/a>; since mass surveillance is a global problem, we also need parliamentary commissions of inquiry around the world to look into the same question.<\/li>\n<li>Congress should <strong>pass meaningful reform<\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/06\/aarons-law-introduced-now-time-reform-cfaa\">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldueprocess.org\/\">Electronic Communications Privacy Act<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of Justice should <strong>notify everyone who&#8217;s been convicted of a crime using evidence derived\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddirectly or indirectly\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom warrantless surveillance<\/strong> programs (not just a cherry-picked handful of defendants).<\/li>\n<li>All communications companies should publish <strong>transparency reports<\/strong> showing the scope and nature of government requests for user information. The Internet industry, led by Google, has made this a standard for corporate transparency, but telecom companies are still totally missing in action.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All Internet sites should adopt cryptographic best practices<\/strong> for every connection, every time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/11\/encrypt-web-report-whos-doing-what\">including PFS, STARTTLS, HSTS, and encrypted traffic between data centers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, every certificate authority and web browser should commit to <strong>adopt Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certificate-transparency.org\/\">Certificate Transparency<\/a> system<\/strong> to detect and stop the issuance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diginotar#Issuance_of_fraudulent_certificates\">fake certificates that facilitate spying on web users<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Companies that sell books, movies, music, or other digital media should commit to the principle that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/right-to-repair\">if you bought it, you own it<\/a>. That means <strong>no DRM<\/strong> and no sneaky license agreements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Every wireless device should let you change its MAC<\/strong> <strong>address<\/strong> (a hardware serial number), and no new technology standards should be designed to transmit any persistent hardware serial numbers over the air or on a network. (If your device keeps sending the same hardware serial number, like wifi devices and cell phones, among others, whoever&#8217;s at the other end or listening in can recognize you and track your location. Businesses and governments are already taking advantage of this to build massive databases of our devices.)<\/li>\n<li>Web sites should publish historical versions of their terms of service and privacy policies, with their effective dates, to help users understand what&#8217;s changed over time. At a bare minimum, companies like <strong>Facebook should stop <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050809235134\/www.facebook.com\/policy.php\">blocking the Internet Archive<\/a> from creating and displaying a historical record of their policies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Governments should <strong>come clean<\/strong> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/09\/crucial-unanswered-questions-about-nsa-bullrun-program\">how they&#8217;ve weakened computer and communications security<\/a>, clean up the damage, and stop doing it.<\/li>\n<li>Companies entering the secure communications space (as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/07\/why-doesnt-skype-include-stronger-protections-against-eavesdropping\">those that have been there a while<\/a>!) should <strong>explain exactly how secure they are and why<\/strong>. They should get public technical audits by experts and clearly explain <a href=\"https:\/\/leap.se\/en\/2012\/the-big-seven\">how they handle classic, fundamental security challenges<\/a>. They should clearly and publicly explain whether and to what extent they could be compelled to record or turn over user data or to help break users&#8217; security (including by disclosing cryptographic keys or passwords, by issuing false digital certificates, or by modifying their software).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>surveillance industry should take responsibility<\/strong><strong> for ensuring that it&#8217;s not assisting mass surveillance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/10\/it%E2%80%99s-time-know-your-customer-standards-sales-surveillance-equipment\">other human rights violations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/12\/effs-2013-holiday-wishlist\">EFF&#8217;s 2013 Holiday Wishlist | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) offers a wishlist of actions that they would most like to see from companies, governments, organizations, and individuals to better serve all Internet users.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[765,782,263,247,877],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-765","tag-eff","tag-internet","tag-technology","tag-wishlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}