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Microsoft Clears the Air About Fighting CLOUD Act Abuses Five of the largest U.S. technology companies pledged support this year for a dangerous law that makes our emails, chat logs, online videos and photos vulnerable to warrantless collection by foreign governments. Now, one of those companies has voiced a meaningful pivot, instead pledging support for its users and their privacy. EFF appreciates this commitment, and urges other companies to do the same. Microsoft’s long-titled “Six Principles for International Agreements Governing Law Enforcement Access to Data” serves as the most clear set of instructions by a company to oppose the many privacy invasions possible under the CLOUD Act. (Dropbox similarly published CLOUD Act pushback earlier this year and it advocated for many safeguards.) Quickly, Microsoft’s principles are: The universal right to notice Prior independent judicial authorization and required minimum showing Specific and complete legal process and clear gr...

EFF Tells Bay Area Regional Transit: Reject Proposed Face Surveillance Scheme Around the country, communities concerned about privacy and surveillance are seeking to secure a robust role for public community oversight to constrain the co-optation of local police departments by electronic surveillance. EFF supported recent victories for community control in Oakland and Berkeley , CA, before recommending today that the Bay Area Regional Transit (BART) Board reject recent proposals to expand surveillance on the BART system.  The Board considered two proposals today. One was for a hastily crafted “ Safety and Security Action Plan ,” including a provision for a “Physical Security Information Management system” (PSIM) that “would be capable of monitoring thousands of simultaneous video streams and automating response recommendation.” The other was for a face surveillance scheme that seems to lack any awareness of the profound threat it could present to privacy, dissent, communities...