Las principales empresas de Internet y telefonía móvil de Colombia siguieron manteniendo un alto nivel de transparencia sobre sus prácticas de privacidad, y continuaron implementando las mejores prácticas para proteger los datos de los clientes, la libre expresión y la seguridad en 2021. Sin embargo, se enfrentaron a los desafíos...
Want the latest news on your digital rights? Well, you're in luck! Version 34, issue 2 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening to the new audio version below. This issue covers stories from our opposition of...
EFF's Cindy Cohn will speak at ACI’s 12th Global Encryption, Cloud & Cyber Export Controls Forum. She will be joined by Roszel C. Thomsen II, partner at Thomsen and Burke LLP. They will discuss Human Rights Due Diligence and Surveillance and Risk Mitigation Considerations: Five Eyes, Entity List Additions, State...
Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” may not be hardwired for security. Window Snyder, computer security expert and author, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they delve into the scary...
When a pipeline bursts, journalists might want to investigate whether the pipeline complied with federal regulations. When a toy is recalled, parents want to know whether its maker followed child safety rules. When a fire breaks out, homeowners and communities want to know whether the building complied with fire safety...
Ser capaz de determinar con precisión tu ubicación en cualquier lugar del planeta es un truco tecnológico útil. Pero cuando el rastreo no lo haces tú, sino que te lo hacen a ti -sin tu conocimiento o consentimiento- es una violación de tu privacidad. Por eso en la EFF llevamos...
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,...
