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, that’s exactly what’s happening in a case called Entropic Communications, LLC v. Charter Communications, Inc. The parties...

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 of a U.S. State Department-commissioned report on the security risk of weaponized AI.Whether these messages come from...

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 media app, had created a “defective” product by including features like disappearing messages, the ability to connect with people through mutual...

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 Enhancement (SAFE) Act would make some much-needed and long fought-for reforms, but it also does not go nearly far enough...

لماذا لا تعتقد مؤسسة الجبهة الإلكترونية أن التغييرات الأخيرة تعمل على تحسين الرقابة التي يفرضها KOSA؟لم تغير النسخة الأخيرة من قانون سلامة الأطفال على الإنترنت (KOSA) وجهة نظرنا النقدية تجاه التشريع. وقد أدت هذه التغييرات إلى قيام بعض المنظمات بإسقاط معارضتها لمشروع القانون، لكننا ما زلنا نعتقد أنه مشروع...