EFF to Ninth Circuit: Activists’ Personal Information Unconstitutionally Collected by DHS Must Be Expunged
UPDATE: On May 30, 2024, the Ninth Circuit denied the plaintiffs' petition for rehearing en banc.EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case that has serious implications for people’s First Amendment rights to engage in cross-border journalism and advocacy.In...
Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.14
There's been lots of news and updates recently in the realm of digital rights, from EFF's recent investigation (and quiz!) into the student monitoring tool GoGuardian, to a recent victory in California regarding law enforcement's sharing of ALPR data outside of the state. It can feel overwhelming to...
Congress Shouldn't Limit The Public's Right To Fight Bad Patents
The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will debate a bill this week that would dramatically limit the public’s right to challenge bad granted patents. The PREVAIL Act, S. 2220 would bar most people from petitioning the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to revoke patents that never...
EFF to Supreme Court: Reverse Dangerous Prior Restraint Ruling Upholding FBI Gag on X’s Surveillance Transparency Report
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Supreme Court today to review and reverse a dangerous ruling allowing the Justice Department to censor X’s ability to publish information about government requests for the platform’s private user data, a decision that undermines at least a hundred years of...
EFF to Copyright Office: Copyright Is Indeed a Hammer, But Don’t Be Too Hasty to Nail Generative AI
Generative AI has sparked a great deal of hype, fear, and speculation. Courts are just beginning to analyze how traditional copyright laws apply to the creation and use of these technologies. Into this breach has stepped the United States Copyright Office with a call for comments on the interplay between...
VICTORY! California Department of Justice Declares Out-of-State Sharing of License Plate Data Unlawful
You Wanna Break Up With Your Bank? The CFPB Wants to Help You Do It.
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a new “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule that will force your bank to make it easy for you to extract your financial data so that you can use it to comparison shop for a better offer, and switch to another bank with...
Young People May Be The Biggest Target for Online Censorship and Surveillance—and the Strongest Weapon Against Them
Over the last year, state and federal legislatures have tried to pass—and in some cases succeeded in passing—legislation that bars young people from digital spaces, censors what they are allowed to see and share online, and monitors and controls when and how they can do it. EFF and many other...
How GoGuardian Invades Student Privacy
Passkeys and Privacy
This is part 2 of our series on passkeys. See part 1 here.In our previous article we described what a passkey is: a few hundred bytes of data stored in your password manager, security key, or elsewhere, which allows you to log in to a specific website without a...
