Speaking Freely: Mohamed El Gohary
Speaking Freely: Mohamed El Gohary
Mohamed El Gohary is an open-knowledge enthusiast. After majoring in Biomedical Engineering in October 2010, he switched careers to work as a Social Media manager for Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper until October 2011, when he joined Global Voices contracts managing Lingua until the end of 2021. He now works for IFEX as the MENA Network Engagement Specialist.
ConPro '24
ConPro '24 (not EFF) will host this event. EFF's Bill Budington will be speaking.8th Workshop on Technology and Consumer ProtectionFrom the Organizers:Advances in technology come with countless benefits for society, but these advances sometimes introduce new risks as well. Various characteristics of...
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party...
Victory! FCC Closes Loopholes and Restores Net Neutrality
The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the mass-surveillance authority Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Paul Abbate, sent an email imploring agents to “use” Section...
No Country Should be Making Speech Rules for the World
Free Speech Around the World | EFFector 36.6
Let's gather around the campfire and tell tales of the latest happenings in the fight for privacy and free expression online. Take care in roasting your marshmallows while we share ways to protect your data from political campaigns seeking to target you; seek nominees for our annual EFF...
What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports?
Axon—the makers of widely-used police body cameras and tasers (and that also keeps trying to arm drones)—has a new product: AI that will write police reports for officers. Draft One is a generative large language model machine learning system that reportedly takes audio from body-worn cameras...
Immigration Law Teachers & Scholars Workshop
The University of Minnesota School of Law (not EFF) will host this event. EFF's Hannah Zhao will be speaking.Immigration Law Teachers & Scholars WorkshopFrom the Organizers:The Binger Center for New Americans at the University of Minnesota Law School is pleased to host...
