La EFF está demandando al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional pidiendo transparencia en su programa de vigilancia de las redes sociales dirigido a los solicitantes de visado.
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records about a multi-million dollar, secretive program that surveils immigrants and other foreign visitors’ speech on social media.DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the Visa...
Primero llegaron los dispositivos de rastreo como Tiles y AirTags, comercializados como ingeniosos artilugios con Bluetooth del tamaño de un botón que pueden encontrar tu mochila perdida. Luego, después de que malos actores empezaran a utilizar los dispositivos para acechar o seguir a la gente, llegaron las aplicaciones de escaneo...
EFF client Erik Johnson, a Miami University computer engineering undergraduate, reached a settlement in the lawsuit we brought on his behalf against exam surveillance software maker Proctorio, in a victory for fair use of copyrighted material and people’s right to fight back against bad faith Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)...
Join us in San Francisco on May 5th for our 6th annual exploration of the fascinating, obscure, and trivial minutiae of digital security, online rights, and Internet culture. It’s the ultimate technology quiz crafted by EFF experts and hosted by our very own Cybertiger ...
Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, researchsuggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill deserves credit for...
Las empresas de supervisión a distancia, como Proctorio, ProctorU y ExamSoft, recopilan todo tipo de datos privados sobre los estudiantes y los examinados, desde información biométrica hasta el estado de la ciudadanía y el vídeo y el audio del entorno del usuario. Durante la pandemia se ha producido un ...
When journalists want to know if and how local police or governments are using technology tools to surveil communities, one of the first people they call (or message on Signal) is Dave Maass, EFF Director of Investigations.Maass’ expertise in the use of police tech like automated license plate readers,...
Like many young people, Zach Latta went to a school that didn't teach any computer classes. But that didn’t stop him from learning everything he could about them and becoming a programmer at a young age. After moving to San Francisco, Zach founded Hack Club, a nonprofit network of high...
Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers that service them. This pervasive online behavioral surveillance...
Después de la derrota de SOPA/PIPA, los grandes contenidos se han centrado principalmente en acuerdos silenciosos y de trastienda para la legislación de derechos de autor, como la inconstitucional Ley CASE, que fue tan impopular que tuvo que ser deslizada en un proyecto de ley de aprobación obligatoria en pleno...
The horrific Russian military invasion of Ukraine has understandably led to a backlash against Russia. The temptation is to label anything Russian, from state media and students to cats, as bad and block it to signal outrage and ostracization. This type of thinking has infected the open...
Update: a new text of the Fake News Bill was released days after our post, which brings some clarity to a few of many critical ambiguities in this proposal. We welcome these attempts to provide greater clarity to the rule, but this proposal is still dangerously underspecified and the many...
Pity the poor content moderator. Big Tech platforms expect their mods to correctly apply a set of rules to users in more than a hundred countries, in over a thousand languages. These users are clustered into literally millions of online communities, each with its own norms and taboos. What a...
