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EFF Responds to Vigilant Solutions’ Accusations About EFF ALPR Report On Tuesday, we wrote a report about how the Irvine Company, a private real estate development company, has collected automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from patrons of several of its shopping centers, and is providing the collected data to Vigilant Solutions, a contractor notorious for its contracts with state and federal law enforcement agencies across the country.  The Irvine Company initially declined to respond to EFF’s questions, but after we published our report, the company told the media that it only collects information at three malls in Orange County (Irvine Spectrum Center, Fashion Island, and The Marketplace) and that Vigilant Solutions only provides the data to three local police departments (the Irvine, Newport Beach, and Tustin police departments).  The next day, Vigilant Solutions issued a press release claiming that the Irvine Company ALPR data actually had more restricted a...

Egypt’s Draconian New Cybercrime Bill Will Only Increase Censorship The hope that filled Egypt’s Internet after the 2011 January 25 uprising has long since faded away. In recent years, the country’s military government has instead created a digital dystopia , pushing once-thriving political and journalism communities into closed spaces or offline, blocking dozens of websites , and arresting a large number of activists who once relied upon digital media for their work. In the past two years, we’ve witnessed the targeting of digital rights defenders , journalists , crusaders against sexual harassment , and even poets , often on trumped-up grounds of association with a terrorist organization or “spreading false news.” Now, the government has put forward a new law that will result in its ability to target and persecute just about anyone who uses digital technology. The new 45-article cybercrime law, named the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes law, is divided into two...