- + Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" —The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for th...
- + Victory! FCC Closes Loopholes and Restores Net Neutrality —Thanks to weeks of the public speaking up and taking action the FCC has recognized the flaw in their proposed net neutrality rules. The FCC’s ...
- + The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy—A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the mass-surveillance authority Sectio...
- + No Country Should be Making Speech Rules for the World—It’s a simple proposition: no single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire internet. Any other approach invites a swift relay ra...
- + Free Speech Around the World | EFFector 36.6—Let's gather around the campfire and tell tales of the latest happenings in the fight for privacy and free expression online. Take care in roasting yo...
- + What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports?—Axon—the makers of widely-used police body cameras and tasers (and that also keeps trying to arm drones) —has a new product: AI that ...
- + Speaking Freely : Nompilo Simanje —Nompilo Simanje is a lawyer by profession and is the Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Lead at the International Press Institute . She leads t...
- + Podcast Episode: Building a Tactile Internet—Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an on...
- + Add Bluetooth to the Long List of Border Surveillance Technologies—A new report from news outlet NOTUS shows that at least two Texas counties along the U.S.-Mexico border have purchased a product that would allo...
- + EFF Zine on Surveillance Tech at the Southern Border Shines Light on Ever-Growing Spy Network —Guide Features Border Tech Photos, Locations, and Explanation of Capabilities SAN FRANCISCO—Sensor towers controlled by AI, drones launched fro...
- + CCTV Cambridge, Addressing Digital Equity in Massachusetts—Here at EFF digital equity is something that we advocate for, and we are always thrilled when we hear a member of the Electronic Frontier All...
- + The U.S. House Version of KOSA: Still a Censorship Bill—A companion bill to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was introduced in the House last month. Despite minor changes, it suffers from the same fu...
- + On World Press Freedom Day (and Every Day), We Fight for an Open Internet—Today marks World Press Freedom Day , an annual celebration instituted by the United Nations in 1993 to raise awareness of press freedom and remi...
- + Biden Signed the TikTok Ban. What's Next for TikTok Users?—Over the last month, lawmakers moved swiftly to pass legislation that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States, eventually including it in...
- + Speaking Freely: Rebecca MacKinnon—*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Rebecca MacKinnon is Vice President, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Founda...
- + Congress Should Just Say No to NO FAKES—There is a lot of anxiety around the use of generative artificial intelligence, some of it justified. But it seems like Congress thinks the highest pr...
- + Speaking Freely: Obioma Okonkwo —This interview has been edited for clarity and length.* Obioma Okonkwo is a lawyer and human rights advocate. She is currently the Head of Legal ...
- + Screen Printing 101: EFF's Spring Speakeasy at Babylon Burning—At least twice each year, we invite current EFF members to gather with fellow internet freedom supporters and to meet the people behind your favorite ...
- + Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car—If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it...
- + U.S. Senate and Biden Administration Shamefully Renew and Expand FISA Section 702, Ushering in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance—One week after it was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate has passed what Senator Ron Wyden has called, “ one of the most dramati...
- + Internet Service Providers Plan to Subvert Net Neutrality. Don’t Let Them —In the absence of strong net neutrality protections, internet service providers (ISPs) have made all sorts of plans that would allow them to capitaliz...
- + EFF, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Action in Case of Alaa Abd El Fattah—Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd ...
- + Congress: Don't Let Anyone Own The Law —We should all have the freedom to read, share, and comment on the laws we must live by. But yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-4 to mov...
- + Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding of Digital Threats—It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked t...
- + Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act Passed the House, Now it Should Pass the Senate —The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act , H.R.4639 , originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the importan...
- + About Face (Recognition) | EFFector 36.5—There are a lot of updates in the fight for our freedoms online, from a last-minute reauthorization bill to expand Section 702 (tell your senators to ...
- + How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You —Data about potential voters—who they are, where they are, and how to reach them—is an extremely valuable commodity during an election year. And while ...
- + Speaking Freely: Lynn Hamadallah —Lynn Hamadallah is a Syrian-Palestinian-French Psychologist based in London. An outspoken voice for the Palestinian cause, Lynn is interested in the w...
- + Americans Deserve More Than the Current American Privacy Rights Act—EFF is concerned that a new federal bill would freeze consumer data privacy protections in place, by preempting existing state laws and preventing s...
- + Tell the FCC It Must Clarify Its Rules to Prevent Loopholes That Will Swallow Net Neutrality Whole—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released draft rules to reinstate net neutrality, with a vote on adopting the rules to come o...
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