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::. 1 day ago

FTC Rightfully Acts Against So-Called “AI Weapon Detection” Company Evolv

The Federal Trade Commission has entered a settlement with self-styled “weapon detection” company Evolv, to resolve the FTC’s claim that the company “knowingly” and repeatedly” engaged in “unlawful” acts of misleading claims about the

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::. 3 day ago

This Bill Could Put A Stop To Censorship By Lawsuit

For years now, deep-pocketed individuals and corporations have been turning to civil lawsuits to silence their opponents. These Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs, aren’t designed to win on the merits, but rather to harass j

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::. 3 day ago

Let's Answer the Question: "Why is Printer Ink So Expensive?"

Did you know that most printer ink isn’t even expensive to make? Why then is it so expensive to refill the ink on your printer? The answer is actually pretty simple: monopolies, weird laws, and companies exploiting their users for profit. If this sounds mildly infuriating and

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::. 3 day ago

Location Tracking Tools Endanger Abortion Access. Lawmakers Must Act Now.

EFF wrote recently about Locate X, a deeply troubling location tracking tool that allows users to see the precise whereabouts of individuals based on the locations of their smartphone devices. Developed and sold by the data surveillance company Babel Street, Locate X collects sma

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::. 4 day ago

Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump Administration

In the wake of the 2024 election in the United States, many people are concerned about tightening up their digital privacy and security practices. As always, we recommend that people start making their security plan by understanding their risks. For most people in the U.S., the t

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::. 5 day ago

Speaking Freely: Aji Fama Jobe

*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Aji Fama Jobe is a digital creator, IT consultant, blogger, and tech community leader from The Gambia. She helps run Women TechMakers Banjul, an organization that provides visibility, mentorship, and resources to women and girls in tech. She also serves as an Information Technology Assistant with the World Bank Group where she focuses on resolving IT issues and enhancing digital infrastructure. Aji Fama is a dedicated advocate working to l

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EFF

::. 5 day ago

🍿 Today’s Double Feature: Privacy and Free Speech

It’s Power Up Your Donation Week! Right now, your contribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation will go twice as far to protect digital privacy, security, and free speech rights for everyone. Will you donate today to get a free 2X match? Power

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::. 5 day ago

Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus

When a company makes a promise, the public should be able to rely on it. Today, nearly every person in the U.S. is a customer of either Amazon or Google—and many of us are customers of both technology giants. Both of these companies have made publi

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EFF

::. 10 day ago

One Down, Many to Go with Pre-Installed Malware on Android

Last year, we investigated a Dragon Touch children’s tablet (KidzPad Y88X 10) and confirmed that it was linked to a string of fully compromised Android TV Boxes that had also multiple reports of malware, adware, and a sketchy firmware update channel. Since then, Google has take

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EFF

::. 11 day ago

Tell the Senate: Don’t Weaponize the Treasury Department Against Nonprofits

Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive b

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::. 12 day ago

EFF Tells the Second Circuit a Second Time That Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a second amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an argument EFF has been making in the courts and Congress

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EFF

::. 12 day ago

Looking for the Answer to the Question, "Do I Really Own the Digital Media I Paid For?"

Sure, buying your favorite video game, movie, or album online is super convenient. I personally love being able to pre-order a game and play it the night of release, without needing to go to a store. But something you may not have thought about before making your purchase are the differences between owning a physical or digital copy of that media. Unfortunately, there’s quite a few rights you give up by purchasing a digital copy of your favorite game, movie, or album! On our new site, Digita

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EFF

::. 16 day ago

Speaking Freely: Anriette Esterhuysen

*This interview took place in April 2024 at NetMundial 10 in São Paulo, Brazil. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has

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EFF

::. 16 day ago

Organizing for Digital Rights in the Pacific Northwest

Recently I traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak at the PDX People’s Digital Safety Fair, meet up with five groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, and attend BSides PDX 2024. Portland’s first ever Digital Safety Fair was a success and five o

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EFF

::. 18 day ago

Oppose The Patent-Troll-Friendly PREVAIL Act

Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA). Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s m

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EFF

::. 19 day ago

The U.S. National Security State is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable

The Biden White House has released a memorandum on “Advancing United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” which includes, among other things, a directive for the National Security apparatus to become a world leader in the use of AI. Under direction from the White

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EFF

::. 19 day ago

Now's The Time to Start (or Renew) a Pledge for EFF Through the CFC

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pledge period is underway and runs through January 15, 2024! If you're a U.S. federal employee or retiree, be sure to show your support for EFF by using our CFC ID 10437. Not sure how to make a pledge? No problem--it’s easy! First, head over

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EFF

::. 20 day ago

On Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd Birthday, the Fight For His Release Continues

Today marks prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, activist, and political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah’s 43rd birthday—his eleventh behind bars. Alaa should have been released on September 29, but Egyptian authorities have continued his imprisonment in contravention of the country’s own Criminal Procedure Code. Since September 29, Alaa’s mother, mathematician Leila Soueif, has been on hunger strike, while she and the rest of his family have worked to engage the British government in

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EFF

::. 24 day ago

"Why Is It So Expensive To Repair My Devices?"

Now, of course, we’ve all dropped a cell phone, picked it up, and realized that we’ve absolutely destroyed its screen. Right? Or is it just me...? Either way, you’ve probably seen how expensive it can be to repair a device, whether it be a cell

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::. 25 day ago

EFF Is Ready for What's Next | EFFector 36.14

Don't be scared of your backlog of digital rights news, instead, check out EFF's EFFector newsletter! It's the one-stop-shop to keeping up with the latest in the fight for online freedoms. This time we cover our expectations and preparations for

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::. 25 day ago

Tell Congress To Stop These Last-Minute Bills That Help Patent Trolls

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to use its limited time in the lame-duck session to vote on a bill that would make the patent system even worse. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140), or PERA, would undo vital limits on computer technology patents th

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::. 29 day ago

Creators of This Police Location Tracking Tool Aren't Vetting Buyers. Here's How To Protect Yourself

404 Media, along with Haaretz, Notus, and Krebs On Security recently reported on a company that captures smartphone location data from a variety of sources and collates that data into an easy-to-use tool to track devices’ (and, by proxy, individuals’) locations. The dangers t

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::. 29 day ago

Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024

Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the onlin

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EFF

::. 29 day ago

EFF to Second Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an argument EFF has been making in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade. The case, U.S. v. Kamaldoss, involves the criminal prosecution of a man whose cell phone and laptop were forensically searched after he landed at JFK airport in New York City. While a manual search involv

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EFF

::. 30 day ago

EFF to Court: Reject X’s Effort to Revive a Speech-Chilling Lawsuit Against a Nonprofit

This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Gowri Nayar. X’s lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate is intended to stifle criticism and punish the organization for its reports criticizing the platform’s content moderati

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::. 32 day ago

The 2024 U.S. Election is Over. EFF is Ready for What's Next.

The dust of the U.S. election is settling, and we want you to know that EFF is ready for whatever’s next. Our mission to ensure that technology serves you—rather than silencing, tracking, or oppressing you—does not change. Some of what’s to c

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::. 32 day ago

AI in Criminal Justice Is the Trend Attorneys Need to Know About

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our criminal justice system is one of the most worrying developments across policing and the courts, and EFF has been tracking it for years. EFF recently contributed a chapter on AI’s use by law enforcement to the American Ba

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::. 33 day ago

EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants

Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show. Thous

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::. 33 day ago

Judge’s Investigation Into Patent Troll Results In Criminal Referrals

In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of patent infringement. Some of these complaints claimed patent rights over basic aspects of m

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EFF

::. 36 day ago

The Human Toll of ALPR Errors

This post was written by Gowri Nayar, an EFF legal intern. Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pulled over by police officers for allegedly driving a stolen car. You are dragged out of the car and detained at gun point. So are your daughter, sister, and nieces. The police handcuff your family, even the children, and force everyone to lie face-down on the pavement, before eventually realizing that they made a mistake. This happened to Brittney Gil

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EFF

::. 38 day ago

"Is My Phone Listening To Me?"

The short answer is no, probably not! But, with EFF’s new site, Digital Rights Bytes, we go in-depth on this question—and many others. Whether you’re just starting to question some of the effects of technology in your life or you’re the desi

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::. 38 day ago

EFF Launches Digital Rights Bytes to Answer Tech Questions that Bug Us All

New Site Dishes Up Byte-Sized, Yummy, Nutritious Videos and Other Information About Your Online LifeSAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched “Digital Rights Bytes,” a new website with short videos offering quick, easily d

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::. 38 day ago

The Frightening Stakes of this Halloween’s Net Neutrality Hearing

The future of the open internet is in danger this October 31st, not from ghosts and goblins, but from the broadband companies that control internet access in most of the United States. These companies would love to use their oligopoly power to charge users and websites additi

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::. 38 day ago

Sorry, Gas Companies - Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)

Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and cul

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::. 39 day ago

Triumphs, Trials, and Tangles From California's 2024 Legislative Session

California’s 2024 legislative session has officially adjourned, and it’s time to reflect on the wins and losses that have shaped Californians’ digital rights landscape this year. EFF monitored nearly 100 bills in the state this session alone, addressing a broad range of iss

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::. 39 day ago

No matter what the bank says, it's YOUR money, YOUR data, and YOUR choice

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and switch to that bank, with just a couple of clicks. We love this kind of thing: the coolest thing about a digital world is how easy it is to switch from product or service to another - in theory. Digital tools are so flexible, anyone who wants your business can write a program to import your data into a new service and forward any m

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::. 40 day ago

Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff

A federal court recently ordered Google to make it easier for Android users to switch to rival app stores, banned Google from using its vast cash reserves to block competitors, and hit Google with a bundle of thou-shalt-nots and assorted prohibitions

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::. 41 day ago

Cop Companies Want All Your Data and Other Takeaways from This Year’s IACP Conference

Artificial intelligence dominated the technology talk on panels, among sponsors, and across the trade floor at this year’s annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). IACP, held Oct. 19 - 22 in Boston, brings toge

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::. 41 day ago

EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah”

This year, a far-reaching, complex new piece of legislation comes into effect in EU: the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which represents some of the most ambitious tech policy in European history. We don’t love everything in the DMA, but some of its provisions are great, because th

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::. 43 day ago

The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance

Safe trick-or-treating this Halloween means being aware of the real monsters of street-level surveillance. You might not always see these menaces, but they are watching you. The real-world harms of these terrors wreak havoc on our communities. Here, we highlight just a few of the

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::. 44 day ago

The UK Must Act: Alaa Abd El-Fattah Still Imprisoned 25 Days After Release Date

It’s been 25 days since September 29, the day that should have seen British-Egyptian blogger, coder, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah walk free. Egyptian authorities refused to release him at the end of his sentence, in contradiction of the country's own Criminal Procedure Cod

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EFF

::. 44 day ago

Disability Rights Are Technology Rights

At EFF, our work always begins from the same place: technological self-determination. That’s the right to decide which technology you use, and how you use it. Technological self-determination is important for every technology user, and it’s especially important for users with disabilities. Assistive technologies are a crucial aspect of living a full and fulfilling life, which gives people with disabilities motivation to be some of the most skilled, ardent, and consequential technology users

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::. 45 day ago

The UK Must Act: Alaa Abd El-Fattah Still Imprisoned 25 Days After Release Date

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::. 46 day ago

In Appreciation of David Burnham

We at EFF have long recognized the threats posed by the unchecked technological prowess of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Since our founding in 1990, we have been in the forefront of efforts to impose meaningful legal controls and account

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::. 47 day ago

EFF to Massachusetts’ Highest Court: Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Should Not Eviscerate Privacy Rights

When someone is placed on location monitoring for one purpose, it does not justify law enforcement’s access to that information for a completely different purpose without a proper warrant. EFF joined the Committee for Public Counsel Services, ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and

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::. 47 day ago

How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.

EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation to demand that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) furnish the public with an estimate of

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::. 48 day ago

U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken

A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken. According to the report, the memo describes "several technical proble

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::. 50 day ago

EFF to Third Circuit: TikTok Has Section 230 Immunity for Video Recommendations

EFF legal intern Nick Delehanty was the principal author of this post. EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of TikTok’s request that the full court reconsider the case Anderson v. TikTok after a three-judge panel ruled that Section 230 immunity doesn’t apply to TikTok’s recommendations of users’ videos. We argued that the panel was incorrect on the law, and this case has wide-ranging implications for the internet as we know it today. EFF

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::. 51 day ago

A Flourishing Internet Depends on Competition

Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of “kill zones,” where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they

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::. 51 day ago

California Attorney General Issues New Guidance on Military Equipment to Law Enforcement

California law enforcement should take note: the state’s Attorney General has issued a new bulletin advising them on how to comply with AB 481—a state law that regulates how law enforcement agencies can use, purchase, and disclose information abo

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::. 52 day ago

Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don’t Use Gen AI to Write Reports

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which handles all prosecutions in the Seattle area, has instructed police in no uncertain terms: do not use AI to write police reports...for now. This is a good development. We hope prosecutors across the country will exercise such

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::. 52 day ago

Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco

Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco's playbook to wage war on your privacy, according to Jake Snow of the ACLU of Northern California. We agree. In the 1990s, the tobacco industry attempted to use federal law to override a broad swath of existing state laws and prev

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::. 53 day ago

Courts Agree That No One Should Have a Monopoly Over the Law. Congress Shouldn’t Change That

Some people just don’t know how to take a hint. For more than a decade, giant standards-development organizations (SDOs) have been fighting in courts around the country, trying use copyright law to control access to other laws. They claim that that they own the copyright in the

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::. 53 day ago

EFF and IFPTE Local 20 Attain Labor Contract

First-Ever, Three-Year Pact Protects Workers’ Pay, Benefits, Working Conditions, and More SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they jointly announced today. EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE. The EFF bargaining unit includes more than 60 non-management employees in teams across the organization’s program and administrative staff. The contract covers th

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::. 53 day ago

Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology

In its recent report, Civil Rights Implications of Face Recognition Technology (FRT), the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified serious problems with the federal government’s use of face recognition technology, and in doing so recognized EFF�

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::. 53 day ago

New EFF Report Provides Guidance to Ensure Human Rights are Protected Amid Government Use of AI in Latin America

Governments increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to support consequential assessments and determinations about people’s lives, from judging eligibility for social assistance to trying to predict

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EFF

::. 58 day ago

Should I Use My State’s Digital Driver’s License?

A digital mobile driver’s license (often called an mDL) is a version of your ID that you keep on your phone instead of in your pocket. In theory, it would work wherever your regular ID works—TSA, liquor stores, to pick up a prescription, or to get into a bar. This sounds simp

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::. 58 day ago

Podcast Episode Rerelease: So You Think You’re A Critical Thinker

This episode was first released in March 2023. With this year’s election just weeks away, concerns about disinformation and conspiracy theories are on the rise. We covered this issue in a really enlightening talk in March 2023 with Alice Marwick, the director of research at D

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::. 59 day ago

New IPANDETEC Report Shows Panama’s ISPs Still Lag in Protecting User Data

Telecom and internet service providers in Panama are entrusted with the personal data of millions of users, bearing a responsibility to not only protect users’ privacy but also be transparent about their data handling policies. Digital rights organization IPANDETEC has evaluate

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::. 59 day ago

Election Security: When to Worry, When to Not

This post was written by EFF intern Nazli Ungan as an update to a 2020 Deeplinks post by Cindy Cohn. Everyone wants an election that is secure and reliable and that will ensure that the voters’ actual choices are reflected in the results. That’s as true as we head into the 2024 U.S. general elections as it always has been. At the same time, not every problem in voting technology or systems is worth pulling the fire alarm—we have to look at the bigger story and context. And we have to st

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::. 60 day ago

A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are righ

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::. 60 day ago

Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys"

At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this: The Wall Street Journal reported on a major breach of U.S. telecom systems attributed to a soph

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::. 61 day ago

FTC Findings on Commercial Surveillance Can Lead to Better Alternatives

On September 19, the FTC published a staff report following a multi-year investigation of nine social media and video streaming companies. The report found a myriad of privacy violations to consumers stemming largely from the ad-revenue based business models of companies includin

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::. 61 day ago

The X Corp. Shutdown in Brazil: What We Can Learn

The feud between X Corp. and Brazil’s Supreme Court continues to drag on: After a month-long standoff, X Corp. folded and complied with court orders to suspend several accounts, name a legal representative in Brazil, and pay 28.6 million reais ($5.24 million) in fines. That has

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::. 61 day ago

Germany Rushes to Expand Biometric Surveillance

Germany is a leader in privacy and data protection, with many Germans being particularly sensitive to the processing of their personal data – owing to the country’s totalitarian history and the role of surveillance in both Nazi Germany and East Germany.So, it is disappointing

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::. 65 day ago

Digital Inclusion Week, Highlighting an EFA Members Digital Equity Work:

In honor of Digital Inclusion Week, Oct 7-11th 2024, it’s an honor to uplift one of our Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) members who is doing great work when it comes to making sure technology benefits everyone by addressing the disparities of the digital divide: CCTV Cambridge. This year CCTV Cambridge partnered to host a Digital Navigator program. The aim of these Digital Navigators is to assist in bridging the digital divide in Cambridge by assessing the needs of the community and acting

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::. 65 day ago

EFF to Fifth Circuit: Age Verification Laws Will Hurt More Than They Help

EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Mississippi, filed an amicus brief on Thursday asking a federal appellate court to continue to block Mississippi’s HB 1126—a bill that imposes age verification mandates on social media services across the

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::. 66 day ago

Vote for EFF’s 'How to Fix the Internet’ Podcast in the Signal Awards!

We’re thrilled to announce that EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist in the Signal Awards 3rd Annual Listener's Choice competition. Now we need your vote to put us over the top! signal-badge_finalist_voteforus.png

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::. 67 day ago

Digital ID Isn't for Everybody, and That's Okay | EFFector 36.13

Need help staying up-to-date on the latest in the digital rights movement? You're in luck! In our latest newsletter, we outline the privacy protections needed for digital IDs, explain our call for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an unconstitutional age verification law, and

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::. 68 day ago

How to Stop Advertisers From Tracking Your Teen Across the Internet

This post was written by EFF fellow Miranda McClellan. Teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are being tracked across the internet using identifiers known as Advertising IDs. When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy

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::. 69 day ago

EFF Awards Night: Celebrating Digital Rights Founders Advancing Free Speech and Access to Information Around the World

Digital freedom and investigative reporting about technology have been at risk amid political and economic strife around the world. This year’s annual EFF Awards honored the achievements of people helping to ensure that the power of technology, the right to privacy and free spe

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