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2019 in Review In November’s landmark opinion in  Alasaad v. McAleenan , a federal judge ruled that suspicionless electronic device searches at U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. The Alasaad opinion was the perfect way to end 2019—the culmination of two years of hard work by EFF, ACLU, and our 11 clients. In another sense, it was a culmination of our decades of work explaining to the public and the courts that you don’t lose your rights when you go online or use digital tools. Every time policymakers or private companies tried to undermine your rights online, we were there. Looking back over 2019, there were so many moments when powerful forces tried to bargain away our digital rights. Both in the U.S. and around the world, authorities used increasingly sneaky word games to undermine our right to secure, private communications. They used new terminology like “ghost” and “client-side scanning” to obscure the fact that they were simply pushing to undermine end-t...

Global NGO Community Demands a Stop to the Sale of .ORG Over 500 organizations and 18,000 individuals have signed a letter urging the Internet Society to stop the private equity takeover of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) , the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain. It’s rare that EFF, Greenpeace, Consumer Reports, Oxfam, the YMCA of the USA, and Human Rights Watch all speak out about a single issue, but the sale of .ORG affects every corner of the NGO sector. Take Action Stand up for .ORG The sale of PIR comes on the heels of a major change to the .ORG Registry Agreement (RA), the contract that outlines how the registry will be managed. The 2019 RA gives the registry owner significant new powers to set policies that would directly harm NGOs, including the power to set new enforcement processes to censor organizations’ speech as well as the ability to raise registration fees without a limit. While ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...

DatacenterDynamics // Greg Jones Previously published on DatacenterDynamics  – Friday April 5, 2019.  Colocation providers have to satisfy a lot of potentially conflicting demands, including providing service to their customers, maintaining the value of that service, and keeping costs under control. A big part of this balancing act is reducing energy. This is a win-win proposition as it cuts costs, while also increasing the value provided by the colo because of its measurable contribution in the battle to reduce emissions. There are several ways to reduce energy in data centers. Two of the most interesting right now are using lithium-ion batteries and the use of microgrid, says Greg Jones, VP of strategy for the service provider segment at Schneider Electric. – Pixabay / cintersimone Take lithium “Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are becoming more cost-effective, and their benefits over traditional valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries are becoming more marked,” says J...

Industrial units rely on an efficient flow of electricity for production and management operations. The power supplied to different units varies as per the power availability in the system. The new age power distribution systems dismiss the power into different circuits as per the requirement. The system also takes into consideration other factors that protect the system from a fluctuating power supply that can in return result in the breakdown of machinery or any component due to sudden power deficiency. Moreover, for a system with multiple operations, any delay due to the interrupted power supply will hamper the process. The advanced or comprehensive systems are used to monitor and track the power consumption and electricity leakage in the circuit. Owing to these insights, the machine operators can engage the machinery in a manner that power consumption is optimised. The role of the system is to supply to every node where it is it required. One of the major factors affecting uninte...