EFF Warns Tech of Censorship, Surveillance Threat From Trump Administration

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning the tech community about the threat President-elect Donald Trump poses to the internet, in a full-page advertisement in the January issue of Wired magazine released Tuesday. "He has praised attempts to undermine digital security, supported mass surveillance, and threatened net neutrality," reads the ad on page 63 about Trump. "He promised to identify and deport millions of your friends and neighbors, track people based on their religious beliefs, and suppress freedom of the press." EFF said it wants the tech community to employ end-to-end encryption and HTTPS for all communications and transactions, delete logs so they can't be provided, publicly disclose government requests to monitor users and censor speech, and advocate for users rights in Congress, the courts and elsewhere. EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman in a news release said the internet shouldn't be "conscripted into a tool of oppression. But if we are going to protect the Internet, we need a lot of help." The transition team didn't comment.