There is a growing pile of evidence that cities should drop Shotspotter, the notorious surveillance system that purportedly uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots, due to its inaccuracies and ...
In an indictment against Defend the Atlanta Forest activists in Georgia, state prosecutors are citing use of encrypted communications to fearmonger. Alleging the defendants—which include jour...
As Congress appears ready to gut one of the internet’s most important laws for protecting free speech, they are ignoring how that law protects and benefits millions of Americans’ ability to s...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/sunsetting-section-230-will-hurt-internet-users-not-big-tech
The government violates the privacy rights of individuals on pretrial release when it continuously tracks, retains, and shares their location, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed ...
Montana’s TikTok ban violates the First Amendment, EFF and others told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a friend-of-the-court brief and urged the court to affirm a trial court’s holding...
Copyright’s fair use doctrine protects lots of important free expression against the threat of ruinous lawsuits. Fair use isn’t limited to political commentary or erudite works – it also pr...
Being well into spring, with the weather getting warmer, we knew it was only a matter of time till the Cybertiger awoke from his slumber. But we were prepared. Prepared to quench the Cybertiger's...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/cybertiger-strikes-again-effs-8th-annual-tech-trivia-night
Update May 15, 2024: The letter has been updated to include support from the Southern Border Communities Coalition . It was re-sent to the Calexico City Council. On the southwest side of Cale...
EFF is an organization of lawyers, technologists, policy professionals, and importantly–full-time activists–who fight to make sure that technology enhances rather than threatens civil liberti...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/one-busy-day-life-effs-activism-team
INTERVIEWER: JILLIAN YORK Mohamed El Gohary is an open-knowledge enthusiast. After majoring in Biomedical Engineering in October 2010, he switched careers to work as a Social Media manager for ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/speaking-freely-mohamed-el-gohary
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 the public to control the technology they use...
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 final adopted order on net neutrality restores br...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/victory-fcc-closes-loopholes-and-restores-net-neutrality
A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the mass-surveillance authority Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , the d...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/fbi-playing-politics-your-privacy
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 race to the bottom for online expression, giv...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/no-country-should-be-making-speech-rules-world
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 your marshmallows while we share ways to protec...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/free-speech-around-world-effector-366
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 will write police reports for officers. Draft One is a g...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/what-can-go-wrong-when-police-use-ai-write-reports
Nompilo Simanje is a lawyer by profession and is the Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Lead at the International Press Institute . She leads the IPI Africa Program which monitors and collects data...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/speaking-freely-nompilo-simanje
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million b...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet
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 allow law enforcement to track devices that emit Bluet...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/add-bluetooth-long-list-border-surveillance-technologies
Guide Features Border Tech Photos, Locations, and Explanation of Capabilities SAN FRANCISCO—Sensor towers controlled by AI, drones launched from truck-bed catapults, vehicle-tracking devices ...
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 Alliance is advocating for it as well. Simply put, digi...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/cctv-cambridge-addressing-digital-equity-massachusetts
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 fundamental flaws as its Senate counterpart . At its...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill
Today marks World Press Freedom Day , an annual celebration instituted by the United Nations in 1993 to raise awareness of press freedom and remind governments of their duties under Article 19 of...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/world-press-freedom-day-and-every-day-we-fight-open-internet
Over the last month, lawmakers moved swiftly to pass legislation that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States, eventually including it in a foreign aid package that was signed by Presi...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/biden-signed-tiktok-ban-whats-next-tiktok-users
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Rebecca MacKinnon is Vice President, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia. Author of Consen...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/speaking-freely-rebecca-mackinnon
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 priority is to protect celebrities – living o...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-should-just-say-no-no-fakes
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 at Media Rights Agenda (MRA) , a non-governmenta...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/speaking-freely-obioma-okonkwo
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 digital civil liberties organization. For thi...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/screen-printing-101-effs-spring-speakeasy-babylon-burning
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 really yours? The right to repair moveme...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/podcast-episode-right-repair-catches-car
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 DRAMATIC AND TERRIFYING EXPANSIONS OF GOVERNMENT SUR...
In the absence of strong net neutrality protections, internet service providers (ISPs) have made all sorts of plans that would allow them to capitalize on something called "network slicing." Whil...
Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, EFF has joined 26 free expression and h...
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 move forward the PRO Codes Act (H.R. 1631 ), a b...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law
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 the draft memo and the following June when the case was ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/two-years-post-roe-better-understanding-digital-threats
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 important and historic step of passing the U.S. House of Re...
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 vote NO on the bill here! ), a new federal co...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/about-face-recognition-effector-365
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 the right to a secret ballot is a corners...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/how-political-campaigns-use-your-data-target-you
Lynn Hamadallah is a Syrian-Palestinian-French Psychologist based in London. An outspoken voice for the Palestinian cause, Lynn is interested in the ways in which narratives, spoken and unspoken,...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/speaking-freely-lynn-hamadallah
EFF is concerned that a new federal bill would freeze consumer data privacy protections in place, by preempting existing state laws and preventing states from creating stronger protections in t...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released draft rules to reinstate net neutrality, with a vote on adopting the rules to come on the 25th of April . The FCC needs to close some loo...
Facial recognition is a threat to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. EFF supports strict restrictions on face recognition use by private companies, and total ba...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/stop-working-ban-scan-new-york
Our faces are often exposed and, unlike passwords or pin numbers, cannot be remade. Governments and businesses, often working in partnership, are increasingly using our faces to track our whereab...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/eff-submits-comments-frt-commission-civil-rights
We could go on for days talking about all the work EFF does to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. In fact, we DO go on for days talking ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/what-does-eff-mean-you
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted against considering a largely bad bill that would have unacceptably expanded the tentacles of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Ac...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/bad-amendments-section-702-have-failed-now-what-happens-next
When EFF set out to map surveillance technology along the U.S.-Mexico border, we weren't exactly sure how to do it. We started with public records—procurement documents, environmental assessme...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/virtual-reality-and-virtual-wall
Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/mpa-doesnt-get-decide-who-first-amendment-protects
THIS INTERVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED FOR LENGTH AND CLARITY.* Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is the executive director of FORUM-Asia . She has worked for many years in human rights organizations in the Ph...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/speaking-freely-mary-aileen-diez-bacalso
Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral adv...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/podcast-episode-antitrustpro-internet
Guided by EFF's map of Customs & Border Protection surveillance towers, University of Arizona geographers Colter Thomas and Dugan Meyer have been methodologically traversing the U.S.-Mexico bord...
This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Melda Gurakar. Researchers, journalists, and everyone else has a First Amendment right to criticize social media platforms and their content moderat...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/federal-court-dimisses-xs-anti-speech-lawsuit-against-watchdog