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
With Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire later this month, the White House recently released a memo objecting to the SAFE Act —legislation introduced by Sen...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/white-house-wrong-section-702-needs-drastic-change
In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted membe...
Emma Shapiro is an American artist, writer, and activist who is based in Valencia, Spain. She is the Editor-At-Large for the Don’t Delete Art campaign and the founder of the international art...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/speaking-freely-emma-shapiro
Ola Bini, the software developer acquitted last year of cybercrime charges in a unanimous verdict in Ecuador, was back in court last week in Quito as prosecutors, using the same evidence that he...
After several years of litigation across the federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has finally crafted a test that lower courts can use to determine whether a g...
On February 8, François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada would ban devices used in keyless car theft. The only device mentioned by...
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