The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
Today we are publishing a new EFF white paper, The Cautious Path to Strategic Advantage: How Militaries Should Plan for AI . This paper analyzes the risks and implications of military AI projects in the wake of Google's decision to discontinue AI assistance to the US military's drone program and adopt AI ethics principles that preclude many forms of military work. The key audiences for this paper are military planners and defense contractors, who may find the objections to military...
The Florida Department of Corrections is one of the many state prison systems that rely on private contractors to supply electronic messaging and access to electronic music files and books for prisoners. For seven years, Florida ’ s prisoners have bought music through Access Corrections, a company that took in $11.3 million selling songs at $1.70 each — nearly twice what the typical song costs on the marketplaces available to people who aren ’ t incarcerated. This is hardly exceptional:...
The majority of Americans do not have a choice when it comes to high-speed Internet. People living in rural areas have poor quality and coverage when it comes to even mid-range broadband, and America is lagging behind other countries in fiber optics. There are very few things in place that help address these problems, and big ISPs are asking the FCC to end one of them . But EFF is stepping in to ask the FCC to deny AT&T's and...
Banner Graphic:
Surveillance Self-Defense
Banner Graphic:
Privacy Badger
Banner Graphic:
