This post was drafted by EFF legal intern Alissa Johnson. EFF signed on to an amicus brief drafted by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers earlier this month petitioning the Or...
EFF welcomes the latest and long-awaited policy advisory opinion from Meta’s Oversight Board calling on the company to end its blanket ban on the use of the Arabic-language term “shaheed” ...
*THIS INTERVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED FOR LENGTH AND CLARITY. Robert Ssempala is a longtime press freedom and social justice advocate. He serves as Executive Director at Human Rights Network for Jo...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/speaking-freely-robert-ssempala
Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition
Want to hear about the latest news in digital rights? Well, you're in luck! EFFector 36.4 is out now and covers the latest topics, including our stance on the unconstitutional TikTok ban (spoiler...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/no-kosa-no-tiktok-ban-effector-364
This post was written by Rachel Hochhauser, an EFF legal intern We’ve written multiple times about the inaccurate and dangerous “gunshot detection” tool, Shotspotter. A recent near-trag...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/responding-shotspotter-police-shoot-child-lighting-fireworks
In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation , police in the U.S. recently ...
MPs in Ghana’s Parliament voted to pass the country’s draconian ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill ’ on February 28th. The bill now heads to Ghana�...
GLOBAL ELECTIONS AND PLATFORM RESPONSIBILITY This year is a major one for elections around the world, with pivotal races in the U.S., the UK, the European Union, Russia, and India, to name just ...
You’re not supposed to be able to litigate in secret in the U.S. That’s especially true in a patent case dealing with technology that most internet users rely on every day. Unfortunately,...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-seeks-greater-public-access-patent-lawsuit-filed-texas
There has been a tremendous amount of hand wringing and nervousness about how so-called artificial intelligence might end up destroying the world . The fretting has only gotten worse as a result ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-avoid-ai-apocalypse-one-easy-step
The University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic has filed an Open Records Request lawsuit to demand public records from the private Atlanta Police Foundation (APF). The...
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Maryam Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender who works as a consultant and trainer on Human Rights. She is a leading voic...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/speaking-freely-maryam-al-khawaja
The State of California is currently rolling out a “mobile driver’s license” (mDL), a form of digital identification that raises significant privacy and equity concerns . This post explains...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/decoding-california-dmvs-mobile-drivers-license
EFF legal intern Jack Beck contributed to this post. A California trial court recently departed from wide-ranging precedent and held that Snap, Inc., the maker of Snapchat, the popular social m...
In a case being heard Monday at the Supreme Court, 45 Washington lawmakers have argued that government communications with social media sites about possible election interference misinformation a...
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is one of the most insidious and secretive mass surveillance authorities still in operation today. The Security and Freedom Enhanc...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/safe-act-two-steps-forward-one-step-back
> With KOSA passed, the information i can access as a minor will be > limited and censored, under the guise of "protecting me", which is > the responsibility of my pa...
WHY EFF DOES NOT THINK RECENT CHANGES AMELIORATE KOSA’S CENSORSHIP The latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) did not change our critical view of the legislation. The changes...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth
In a stunning reversal against the popular Transparent & Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology (TRUST) ordinance, the San Diego city council voted earlier this year to cut many of the provis...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/san-diego-city-council-breaks-trust
With strong bipartisan support, the U.S. House voted 352 to 65 to pass HR 7521 this week, a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular video app. The ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/5-big-unanswered-questions-about-tiktok-bill
Our concerns about the selling and misuse of location data for those seeking reproductive and gender healthcare are escalating amid a recent wave of cases and incidents demonstrating that the dig...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/location-data-tracks-abortion-clinic-visits-heres-what-know
Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A re...
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Alissa Johnson, who was the lead author of this post. Earlier this month, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that harmonized standards are a part of E...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/making-law-accessible-europe-and-usa
What do House Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barbara Lee have in common with House Republicans like Thomas Massie and Andy Biggs? Not a lot. But they do know an unconstitutional bill...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/why-us-house-members-opposed-tiktok-ban-bill
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Jack Beck, who was the lead author of this post. Amid heavy criticism for its ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel, South by Southwest—the organiz...
Welcome to your U.S. presidential election year, when all kinds of bad actors will flood the internet with election-related disinformation and misinformation aimed at swaying or suppressing your ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/protect-yourself-election-misinformation
Congress’ unfounded plan to ban TikTok under the guise of protecting our data is back, this time in the form of a new bill—the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applic...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-should-give-unconstitutional-tiktok-bans
The U.S. Senate is moving forward with two bills that would enrich patent trolls, patent system insiders, and a few large companies that rely on flimsy patents, at the expense of everyone else. ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-must-stop-pushing-bills-will-benefit-patent-trolls
Nevada Makes Backward Argument That Insecure Communication Makes Children Safer LAS VEGAS — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of partners urged a court to protect defa...
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/reject-nevadas-attack-encrypted-messaging-eff-tells-court
The First Amendment requires courts to apply a robust balancing test before unmasking anonymous online speakers, EFF explained in an amicus brief it filed recently in a New York State appeal. ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-urges-new-york-court-protect-online-speakers-anonymity
We’ve been saying it for 20 years , and it remains true now more than ever: the internet is an essential service . It enables people to build and create communities, shed light on injustices, a...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/access-internet-infrastructure-essential-wartime-and-peacetime
Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government does “after-action” analyses to make sure i...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-i-squared-governance
Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a...
More than four years after it was first introduced, the Online Safety Act (OSA) was passed by the U.K. Parliament in September 2023. The Act seeks to make the U.K. “the safest place” in the ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/effs-submission-ofcoms-consultation-illegal-harms
RECOGNIZING THE WORST IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY. The Foilies are co-written by EFF and MuckRock and published in alternative newspapers around the country through a partnership with the Assoc...
Around the globe, freedom of expression varies wildly in definition, scope, and level of access. The impact of the digital age on perceptions and censorship of speech has been felt across the pol...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-voices-you-should-hear-international-womens-day
This International Women’s Day, defend free speech, fight surveillance, and support innovation by calling on our elected politicians and private companies to uphold our most fundamental rights�...
While online violence is alarmingly common globally, women are often more likely to be the target of mass online attacks, nonconsensual leaks of sensitive information and content, and other forms...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-infosec-tools-resistance-international-womens-day
Today is International Women’s Day, a day celebrating the achievements of women globally but also a day marking a call to action for accelerating equality and improving the lives of women the w...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/four-reasons-protect-internet-international-womens-day
Running the Atlas of Surveillance , our project to map and inventory police surveillance across the United States, means experiencing emotional extremes. Whenever we announce that we've added n...
Join us in San Francisco on May 9th for EFF's 8th annual Tech Trivia Night! Explore the obscure minutiae of digital security, online rights, and internet culture. Enjoy delicious tacos, churros...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/join-us-effs-8th-annual-tech-trivia-night
Over the past month, the independent news outlet Indybay has quietly fought off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department. Today, a court lifted the g...
Can free and open source software projects like Caddy and Traefik eventually replace EFF’s Certbot ? Although Certbot continues to be developed, we think tools like these help offer a promisi...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/should-caddy-and-traefik-replace-certbot
“Privacy First ” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first? Whether you’re worried abou...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/privacy-first-and-competition
IN A MILESTONE JUDGMENT—PODCHASOV V. RUSSIA —THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ECTHR) HAS RULED THAT WEAKENING OF ENCRYPTION CAN LEAD TO GENERAL AND INDISCRIMINATE SURVEILLANCE OF THE COMMU...
San Francisco’s ballot initiative Proposition E is a dangerous and deceptive measure that threatens our privacy, safety, and democratic ideals. It would give the police more power to surveil, ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/voting-no-prop-e-easy-and-important-san-francisco
On March 3rd, 2009, we launched Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD). At the time, we pitched it as, "an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying." In the last ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/celebrating-15-years-surveillance-self-defense
As we continue the journey of fighting for digital freedoms, it can be hard to keep up on the latest happenings. Thankfully, EFF has a guide to keep you in the loop! EFFector 36.3 is out now and ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/privacy-isnt-dead-far-it-effector-363
This interview is crossposted from The Markup, a nonprofit news organization that investigates technology and its impact on society. By: Monique O. Madan , Investigative Reporter at The Markup ...