La legislatura de Arizona aprobó el año pasado una ley (H.B. 2319 codificada en A.R.S. § 13-3732) que prohíbe la grabación en vídeo de la actividad policial a menos de dos metros de los agentes, tipificando como delito menor de clase 3 (lo que...
KOSA es fundamentalmente un proyecto de ley de censura. Los políticos lo justifican insistiendo en algo que todos sabemos: que hay contenidos en Internet inapropiados para los niños. Pero en lugar de dejar que sean los padres y las familias quienes decidan qué contenidos son apropiados a qué edad, los...
Un comité clave del Senado ha votado a favor de sacar adelante uno de los proyectos de ley más peligrosos que hemos visto en años: la Ley de Seguridad Infantil en Internet (KOSA, por sus siglas en inglés). La EFF se ha opuesto a la Kids Online Safety Act...
Tor is a valuable tool for browsing the web anonymously, but since it's powered by volunteers willing to share some bandwidth and a computer, it's always in need of additional help. Which is why EFF is announcing the Tor University Challenge, a project asking universities to start running Tor...
SAN FRANCISCO—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday launched the Tor University Challenge, a campaign urging higher education institutions to support free, anonymous speech by running a Tor network relay. Universities answering this call to defend private access to an uncensored web will receive prizes while helping...
EFF salutes the creativity and curiosity at the heart of Las Vegas’ hacker summer camp conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON 31. You can stand in solidarity with the global community of digital creators and security researchers, too.
The EFF team is pleased to return to the Las Vegas hacker summer camp conferences—BSidesLV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON 31—to rally behind computer security researchers and tinkerers. This entire week of events is a meaningful opportunity to reconnect with the infosec and hacker community, who...
WEI? I’m a frayed knotTwo pieces of string walk into a bar.The first piece of string asks for a drink.The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.”The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender...
EFF filed a brief this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arguing that app stores should not be liable for user speech just because they recommend that speech or process payments for those users. Those stores should be protected by Section 230, a...
Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to a very common reality for people in San Francisco with other places in the U.S. also testing the new technology. With innovations often come unintended consequences—one of which is the massive collection of data required for...
According to Firefox data, 78% of pages loaded use HTTPS. That’s tremendously improved from 27% in 2013 when Let’s Encrypt was founded. There’s still a lot of work to be done to get to 100%. We hope you’ll join EFF and Let’s Encrypt in celebrating the successes of ten years...
