Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early
Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now. That’s earlier than previous deadlines, and they proposed the new post-quantum migration deadline because of two new papers that comprise a big jump in the state of the technology. It’s ahead of schedule...
Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime
The Ninth Circuit should follow Van Buren’s lead and interpret the CFAA narrowly, as Congress intended.
EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem
Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties who claim copyright in them. The court...
👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7
Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking protestors, and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving into this troubling pattern and sharing all the latest in the fight for...
Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom
When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments...
Privacy Index Workshop
lumka (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York will be speaking.From the Organizers: The discussion will feature Ruby Chen, Ana Luisa Cubas (Sound Surveillance Archive Researcher), Jillian C. York (Director for International Freedom...
EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next?
The EU’s so-called Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately. The most controversial idea, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, was given up by EU member states. And now, another win for privacy: the EU Parliament has...
Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York
Join EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn at three events in NYC to talk digital rights and her new book: Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.
