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by wildebaard
2904 days ago
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I don't think the point of the article was that EFF should _not_ fight government on privacy, but that it _isn't_ also fighting the same fight, for the same privacy, against corporations. At least, that's how I read it.
It then goes on about how current copyright laws are broken and that SEPA was an attempt to fix that, which should have been heralded. Personally I do not fully agree with this, but the main point of the article (again, for me) was the "hypocrisy". |
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But they are, they're just fighting it on a different front. A lot of bad laws can't be countered with technology because the problem to begin with is that the law prohibits the technology, e.g. you have to fight against key escrow laws in Washington, you can't fix it with technology after the fact (and not expect to be prosecuted).
Companies can be handled in the market, which is what they've been doing. The EFF started the Tor project, which protects privacy and promotes decentralization through onion services. They're also behind a lot of the TLS-promoting stuff like Let's Encrypt and HTTPS Everywhere. The more TLS there is, the less ISPs and other MITMs can spy on plaintext. It also improves privacy against web services because browsers treat HTTPS connections more carefully, e.g. not providing cross-domain referrers.
That's their strategy. You fight the government in Washington and private entities by writing code. That's hardly hypocrisy.