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The Weekly BAT + Podcast Ep. 59 — An under the hood look at BAT/Brave Ads (blog), Brave R&D update, EFF’s Panopticlick Fingerprinting test now works for Brave users! https://blog.batcommunity.org

No doubt sensing the impending US privacy regulations, Google has released a plan to "enhance" user privacy... by finding different ways to track you. Instead of relying on cookies and fingerprinting, Google proposes that we just come out in the open and formalize tracking technologies. While that could give users more transparency and a modicum of control, the bottom line is that Google is really just trying desperately to save its business model (ads based on tracking). While there are actually some good ideas in their proposal, many of the technologies they're putting forward could be even worse for your privacy than the current schemes. Today I'll walk through the EFF's excellent analysis of these propositions and give my own take. Further Info: EFF: Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-privacy-sandbox-1 EFF's Panopticlick tool: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

We examine why it's so difficult to protect your privacy online and discuss browser fingerprinting, when to use a VPN, and the limits of private browsing. Plus Apple's blaring bluetooth beacons and Facebook's worrying plans for WhatsApp.

Recorded 14th April 2019 This week there didn't seem to be a great deal of Apple news, not so much a “quiet week that wasn't” as a “quiet week that was”... So expecting a relatively short show Nick and I sallied forth, only to go down a rabbit hole or two and end up with a show so long it had to be cut back (and still ended up extra long - and it could have been longer believe me...) Anyway - it's Easter next week so we will be taking a break for a week... and thus this somewhat longer than usual edition is now officially dubbed “Bumper Easter Edition” GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Get Photolemur 2 free by helping this YouTube video to 100,000 views. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! 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Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple APPLE Apple now offering data migrations for free with new Mac purchases and repairs – 9to5 Mac Apple adds new 'Confirm Subscription' step for in-app subscription signups on iOS – 9to5 Mac How AirPods and Shortcuts shifted Apple's Siri story and blunted Amazon's Alexa Echo threat – Apple Insider An Apple Podcasts+ service could be a hit with listeners and creators – 9to5 mac Cardbox for iOS reimagines contact management with social features, more – 9to5 Mac TECHNOLOGY Space X Falcon Heavy Launch and booster landing – YouTube UK's Sabre space plane engine tech in new milestone – BBC News World's biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever – The Verge Flickr Teams Up with Pixsy for the First End-to-End Photo Theft Solution – PetaPixel Flickr Blog UK train passengers offered smart tickets – BBC News SECURITY & PRIVACY Firefox expands anti-tracking features with browser fingerprint blocking – The Verge Fingerprinting Links from @dougee on the Cyber Security Special (EAP 124) So, how much information are you giving away right now? These two sites will show you: AmIUnique.org (https://amiunique.org/fp) and Panopticlick.eff.org (https://panopticlick.eff.org/) – I think you'll be surprised. Browser Audit (https://browseraudit.com/) Device Info Me (https://www.deviceinfo.me/) Detect My Browser (https://detectmybrowser.com/) DNS Leak Detector (http://dnsleak.com/) Email Privacy Tester (http://emailprivacytester.com/) Amazon's Alexa isn't just AI - thousands of humans are listening – The Verge Security Flaws in WPA3 Protocol Let Attackers Hack WiFi Password – Hacker News Internet Explorer zero-day exploit makes files vulnerable to hacks on Windows PCs – [Digital Trends](Internet Explorer zero-day exploit makes files vulnerable to hacks on Windows PCs - Digital Trends Microsoft webmail services breached by hackers with support agent's credentials – Digital Trends It's Time to Panic About Privacy – NY Times WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Byte Magazine July 1989 – Vintage Apple 360 pages of Byte Magazine - from the days when half the page count was adverts... and a lot of those double page spreads to boot (via Steven Sinofsky on Twitter) If you're young enough to have missed it first time, find out what it used to be like, and if you are not then revel in the nostalgia Nemo's Hardware Store (1:12:33) AudioEngine A2+BT Amazon – $269 US Audio Engine 512 Portable Amazon – $169 US It is in the UK store but at the extortionate rate of _**£599 UK - save your money and buy from the US (circa $50 US shipping and customs depost) - yes there may be extra UK customs & excise duties... but they sure as hell won't be £300 UK!!!!!! Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... 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In second half of my interview with EFF's Bill Budington, Bill helps us understand how we can at least attempt to disguise ourselves on the web and basically try to blend in with the crowd. We'll also see how tools like EFF's Panopticlick can hep us pinpoint the things that are making us stand out, which enables us to be tracked more easily. Finally, we'll discuss several browsers and plugins that can help you preserve your privacy. If you missed Part 1, you can listen to it here: http://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2019/03/10/enter-the-panopticon-pt1/. Guest Bio: Bill is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He works on privacy and security-enhancing projects, such as the HTTPS Everywhere browser add-on and Panopticlick, a tool that alerts users users to how vulnerable they are to browser tracking. He has also contributed to projects such as Let's Encrypt and SecureDrop. Further Info: Is your browser giving you away? EFF's Panopticlick will tell you: https://panopticlick.eff.orgEFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide - learn how to keep yourself safe online! https://ssd.eff.org/Help EFF to help you: https://supporters.eff.org/

In the first part of my discussion with Bill Budington from the EFF, we're going to talk about some of the key ways in which we are tracked around the web as we surf from site to site. I'll ask Bill who is tracking up, why they're tracking us, and we'll get into some of the clever and downright devious methods by which we are tracked and recognized on the web. In part 2 (next week) Bill will help us understand why it's so hard to disguise ourselves on the web and how tools like EFF's Panopticlick can show us what's going on under the covers. We'll also offer up some solutions or at least mitigations for all this tracking. Guest Bio: Bill is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He works on privacy and security-enhancing projects, such as the HTTPS Everywhere browser add-on and Panopticlick, a tool that alerts users users to how vulnerable they are to browser tracking. He has also contributed to projects such as Let's Encrypt and SecureDrop. Further Info: Is your browser giving you away? EFF's Panopticlick will tell you: https://panopticlick.eff.orgEFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide - learn how to keep yourself safe online! https://ssd.eff.org/Help EFF to help you: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4

Recorded 17th February 2019 This week I am joined by our resident digital forensics specialist and the Slackroom security guru @dougee (Andy J) for a Cyber Security Special to talk about passwords, password managers, browsers, tracking, fingerprinting, AV/Malware protection and lots more. We even find time to fit in a few short news stories too! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount! Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. On this week's show: Andy J (aka @dougee) In the Slackroom SECURITY SPECIAL Americans and Cyber Security – Pew Internet Top 10 Security Practices – Cal Poly 2019 State of Malware report: Trojans and cryptominers dominate threat landscape – Malwarebytes Blog Malwarebytes The best Mac antivirus of 2019 Mac World PC Mag How to stay as private as possible on Apple's iPad and iPhone – Computerworld Fingerprinting So, how much information are you giving away right now? These two sites will show you: AmIUnique.org and Panopticlick.eff.org – I think you'll be surprised. Browser Audit Device Info Me Detect My Browser DNS Leak Detector Email Privacy Tester 99 Free Privacy Tools That Will Keep You Safe Online in 2019 – Cloudwards 7 security tips to stop apps from stealing your data - CNET Two Factor and U2F authentication Authentictor Apps inc Authy, Google, Microsoft, Last Pass YubiKey or Simon's is the Feitian ePass FIDO-NFC Security Key VPNs – so many out there, but be cautious that the one you use is reputable (and I am never sure comparison sites aren't taking a kickback to promote one or more services... call me cynical) Best VPN VPN Pro Advertising/Content Blockers/Anti Trackers Ghostery / Ghostery Lite / Ghostery Plus Privacy Badger Ad Block Plus Crystal Content Blocker (iOS) Password Managers - like anything based around securing your privacy be sure your chosen solution is verifiably reputable iOS KeyChain 1 Password LastPass Dashlane Password Boss Browsers Brave Cliqz Tor Vivaldi Safari Reverse Firewall / Network Blocking Little Snitch LuLu Hands Off Radio Silence APPLE New macOS Malware Variant of Shlayer (OSX) Discovered – Carbon Black Apple's latest update for iOS 12 makes it easier to manage subscriptions – BGR Apple being sued because two-factor authentication on an iPhone or Mac takes too much time – Apple Insider Apple to acquire voice app firm PullString in deal worth below $100M, report says - AppleInsider Apple reportedly acquires digital marketing firm DataTiger – Apple Insider TECHNOLOGY ‘Surveillance capitalism' has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses – Washington Post Not only was glass box spying on people apparently it was insecure as hell to boot... Computer World Google Is Forcing Some Nest Customers to Reset Their Potentially Compromised Passwords - Gizmodo 'Google, this is bogus as hell' — one of the fathers of the internet blasts Google for how Chromecast behaves on his home network – Business Insider Consumer groups call out retailers in a bid for better IoT security – Digital Trends US needs an internet data privacy law, GAO tells Congress – CNet JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast TCL is working on a foldable phone that bends into a smartwatch – CNet Nemo's Hardware Store (55:24) ATH-M50xBT Wireless Over-Ear Headphones – Amazon $200 US or £174 UK Essential Apple Recommended Services: Ghostery - protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire – Free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Ehkä olemme vain (uus)vanhoja nörttejä, mutta silti meistä tuntuu toisinaan fiksulta ajatukselta suoltaa nettiin feikkidataa jalanjälkiämme sotkemaan. Askelpalautin-podcastin tässä jaksossa tohtori, tietojenkäsittelijä ja toimittaja eli Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Otto Ahoniemi ja Olli Sulopuisto puhuvat erilaisista tavoista hämätä proverbiaalista isoveljeä sekä siitä, onko kaikki lopulta kuitenkin vain taistelua tuulimyllyjä vastaan. Linkkejä EFF:n Panopticlick kertoo, oletko yksilöitävissä selaimesi […]

How does online tracking and advertising work? Popping the publishing bubble: A great overview about what the iOS 9 ad blockers mean for online advertising (Stratechery) Data collection by loyalty programs (Choice) How supermarkets get your data & what they do with it (The Guardian) Online tracking systems, how do they work (NewFangled) Tracking the trackers: What are cookies? An introduction to web tracking (The Guardian) Online tracking: If they are watching, should you watch too? (NewFangled) A large tracking investigation (The Wall Street Journal) Don't track us (Duck Duck Go) I'm being followed: How Google, & 104 other companies, are tracking me on the web (The Atlantic) Facebook isn't free - it has made you its product (Computerworld) The decline of newspapers (Wikipedia) The Age The Herald Sun Newspaper Death Watch The future of print: Newspapers struggle to survive in the age of technology (Harvard Political Review) Newspapers' ongoing search for subscription revenue: From paywalls to micropayments (The Conversation) The data are in: Newspapers aren't going to get enough digital subscribers (Mumbrella) Apple Pay PayPal Elon Musk & PayPal (Wikipedia) Are micropayments a viable way to support the news business? (The Conversation) LaterPay, a German payment infrastructure company, offers micropayments with a twist (NiemanLab) Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy (The Conversation) Stranger Things (NetFlix) Here's how much Apple Music is going to pay artists (Business Insider, Australia) Real-time bidding: What the bots run around doing behind the scenes before an ad appears on your screen (Wikipedia) Behavioural networks: A quick summary of what happens from cookie collection to the ads you see (Mike On Ads) An explanation of cookie matching & real-time bidding (Mike on Ads) "An ad exchange is a technology platform that facilitates the buying & selling of media advertising inventory from multiple ad networks" (Wikipedia) What is an ad exchange (Marketing Land) A discussion about typical cuts made during bidding in online ad exchanges (Quora) The DoubleClick ad exchange (Google) The Like button (Wikipedia) Likejacking: A form of 'clickjacking' where someone hijacks your Likes (Wikipedia) Court rules against the use of Facebook's Like button: Shopping site accused of violating German privacy laws (DailyMail, Australia) How to stop Facebook from tracking you (Business Insider, Australia) Is every browser unique? Results fom the Panopticlick experiment (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Panopticlick: Test your browser's ability to protect you from online tracking...Lucy failed badly (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Wall Street (Wikipedia) Pauline Hanson (Wikipedia) Safari's ad blocker: "Blocks all annoying ads & supports websites by not blocking unobtrusive ads by default" (Apple) A discussion about why we keep seeing targeted ads after we've bought the thing (Quora) Targeted ads after I buy something are really annoying (Brad Ideas) Loyalty cards help build a profile on you: The store nerds who know everything about you (news.com.au) The Woolworths 'rewards' loyalty card (Woolworths) Hmm...interesting: The Commonwealth Bank now has a 'loyalty app' where you can conveniently store all your loyalty cards in the one place...close to your bank account details (CommBank) How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did (Forbes) What is big data? (Forbes) 20 facts about big data (Forbes) How big data can be useful for businesses (Business.com) Why big data is a big deal (Harvard Magazine) An example of an Australian data company (Quantium) An example of an American data company (Ghostery) Kim Dot Com Proximity marketing: "The localised wireless distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place"...very 'Minority Report' (Wikipedia) Is your smartphone broadcasting your movements when you shop? (Naked Security) Convenience or security: You can't have both when it comes to Wi-Fi (TechRepublic) At Starbucks, data pours in. But what to do with it? (Advertising Age) Is Wi-Fi at Starbucks safe? (Forbes) The search engine that doesn't track you (Duck Duck Go) Google Maps has been tracking your every move: Google works better because it tracks you...creepy but handy (Junkee) Tom Hanks (Wikipedia) The most expensive Google AdWords keywords in the US are 'San Antonio car wreck attorney', for USD$670.44 (Quartz) The most expensive Google AdWords keywords in Australia include 'Life insurance co.', for AUD$150.30 (The Website Marketing Group) The 100 most expensive keywords on Google: Infographic (webpagefx) Google has its own ad exchange: Google DoubleClick AdX (Google) Google AdWords charges on a pay-per-click basis (Word Stream) We use Blubrry to vaguely track our listenership, but it tells us very little (Blubrry) Gold 104.3 FM: Play Africa by Toto goddammit! (Gold 104.3) Minority Report (Wikipedia) Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Corrections Not really sure if highly targeted ads cost more per click...this post from Facebook suggests the more 'relevant' you make your ad to your target audience, the cheaper it will be (Facebook Business) Further to above: How much do I have to pay on Facebook? (Qwaya) Further further to above: 6 factors that drive up the cost of your Facebook ad conversions (AdEspresso) Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold) It'd be amazing if you gave us a short review...it'll make us easier to find in iTunes: Click here for instructions. You're the best! We owe you a free hug and/or a glass of wine from our cellar

Let's Encrypt - Minting Free Certificates to Encrypt the Entire Web Peter Eckersley Electronic Frontier Foundation James Kasten Electronic Frontier Foundation Yan Zhu Electronic Frontier Foundation Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority that is being launched by EFF in collaboration with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and a team at the University of Michigan. It will issue certificates for free, using a new automated protocol called ACME for verification of domain control and issuance. This talk will describe the features of the CA and available clients at launch; explore the security challenges inherent in building such a system; and its effect on the security of the CA marketplace as a whole. We will also update our place on the roadmap to a Web that uses HTTPS by default. Peter Eckersley is Chief Computer Scientist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users' freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law and policy to gadgets. Aside from Let's Encrypt, Peter's other work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols. Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne. James Kasten is a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michgan and a STIET fellow. James is also a contractor at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research focuses on practical network security and PKI. James has published on the state of TLS, its certificate ecosystem and its vulnerabilities. Most notably, James has helped design the protocol and launch the technology behind Let's Encrypt. Yan is a security engineer at Yahoo, mostly working on End-to-End email encryption and improving TLS usage. She is also a Technology Fellow at EFF and a core developer of Let's Encrypt, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger Firefox, and SecureDrop. Yan has held a variety of jobs in the past, ranging from hacking web apps to composing modern orchestra music. She got a B.S. from MIT in 2012 and is a proud PhD dropout from Stanford. Yan has been a speaker at HOPE, DEFCON 22, jQuerySF, Real World Crypto, SXSW, and various other human gatherings. She is @bcrypt on Twitter.

Ask the EFF: The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Kurt Opsahl General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nate Cardozo EFF Staff Attorney Mark Jaycox EFF Legislative Analyst Corynne McSherry EFF Legal Director Nadia Kayyali EFF Activist Peter Eckersley EFF Technology Projects Director Get the latest information about how the law is racing to catch up with technological change from staffers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the nation’s premiere digital civil liberties group fighting for freedom and privacy in the computer age. This session will include updates on current EFF issues such as surveillance online and fighting efforts to use intellectual property claims to shut down free speech and halt innovation, discussion of our technology project to protect privacy and speech online, updates on cases and legislation affecting security research, and much more. Half the session will be given over to question-and-answer, so it's your chance to ask EFF questions about the law and technology issues that are important to you. Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal. In 2014, Opsahl was elected to the USENIX Board of Directors. Nate Cardozo is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team. In addition to his focus on free speech and privacy litigation, Nate works on EFF's Who Has Your Back? report and Coders' Rights Project. Nate has projects involving cryptography and the law, automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court. He brews his own beer, has been to India four times, and watches too much Bollywood. Mark Jaycox is a Legislative Analyst for EFF. His issues include user privacy, civil liberties, surveillance law, and "cybersecurity." When not reading legal or legislative documents, Mark can be found reading non-legal and legislative documents, exploring the Bay Area, and riding his bike. He was educated at Reed College, spent a year abroad at the University of Oxford (Wadham College), and concentrated in Political History. The intersection of his concentration with advancing technologies and the law was prevalent throughout his education, and Mark's excited to apply these passions to EFF. Previous to joining EFF, Mark was a Contributor to ArsTechnica, and a Legislative Research Assistant for LexisNexis. Peter Eckersley is Technology Projects Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users' freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law and policy to gadgets. Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as the Let's Encrypt CA, Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols. Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for their work. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Nadia Kayyali is a member of EFF’s activism team. Nadia's work focuses on surveillance, national security policy, and the intersection of criminal justice, racial justice, and digital civil liberties issues. Nadia has been an activist since high school, when they participated in the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. Nadia is one of the creators of the Canary Watch website, which tracks and classifies warrant canaries. Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and the public domain against the assault of copyright maximalists. As a litigator, she has represented Professor Lawrence Lessig, Public.Resource.Org, the Yes Men, and a dancing baby, among others, and one of her first cases at EFF was In re Sony BMG CD Technologies Litigation (aka the "rootkit" case). Her policy work includes leading EFF’s effort to fix copyright (including the successful effort to shut down the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA), promote net neutrality, and promote best practices for online expression. In 2014, she testified before Congress about problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Corynne comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, Fox News, the New York Times, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Corynne has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. While in law school, Corynne published Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001). Twitter: @eff, @kurtopsahl