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Business is faced with a critical paradox.  By 2040, the U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) projects that global energy consumption will increase by 28%.   Continued digitization, rising population, concentrated urbanization, the transition to electric vehicles, and economic development across India, China, and Africa will help to drive this growth. At the same time, the mounting threat of climate change requires that we work as quickly and as urgently as possible to mitigate global warming, and keep overall warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. The combustion of fossil fuels for energy production—for electricity, heating, cooling, and transportation–is the primary source of the atmospheric greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.  Studies indicate that, to avoid global temperature rise beyond 2 degrees Celsius, it is necessary to keep the majority of remaining fossil fuels in the ground . But how are we to meet global en...

Behind the Octopus: The Hidden Race to Dismantle Global Law Enforcement Privacy Protections Last month, 360 cyber crime experts from 95 countries gathered in Strasbourg to attend the Octopus Conference . The event sounds like something from James Bond, and when you look at the attendee list—which includes senior figures from the United States Department of Justice, national police forces across the world, and senior figures from companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Cloudflare—it’s easy to imagine a covert machination or two. As it happens, Octopus is one of the more open and transparent elements in the world of global law enforcement and cybersecurity. Civil society like EFF and EDRI were invited to speak, and this year it was our primary chance to comment on a new initiative by the event’s organizers, the Council of Europe—an additional protocol to their Cybercrime Convention (also known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime), which will dictate how Parties of th...

An Open Letter to Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Chair of the California Assembly Appropriations Committee Dear Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher,  We live in dangerous times. The rights of people of color, immigrants, workers, women, and asylum seekers are threatened every day. As history has repeatedly shown, one of the most powerful tools of oppression is surveillance. California has the opportunity to ensure public control and oversight of the spying technologies that law enforcement is most likely to abuse. Right now, the power is in your hands to ensure it moves forward. S.B. 1186 would not hamper criminal investigations or make the work of peace officers more difficult. Accountable policing  is   good policing. With each year, civil rights advocates have watched technology advance amidst a climate of growing secrecy, allowing authorities to collect more and more personal data from more and more people and store it indefinitely, without parama...