Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestine
Our “How to Fix the Internet” Podcast is an Anthem Awards Finalist— Help Make It a Winner!
EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist in the Anthem Awards Community Voice competition, and we need YOUR help to put it over the top! The Anthem Awards honors the purpose and mission-driven work of people, companies and organizations around the world. By amplifying the...
How to Secure Your Kid's Android Device
After finding risky software on an Android (Google’s mobile operating system) device marketed for kids, we wanted to put together some tips to help better secure your kid's Android device (and even your own). Despite the dangers that exist, there are many things that can be...
Tor University Challenge: First Semester Report Card
In August of 2023 EFF announced the Tor University Challenge, a campaign to get more universities around the world to operate Tor relays. The primary goal of this campaign is to strengthen the Tor network by creating more high bandwidth and reliable Tor nodes. We hope...
Victory! Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional
A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to access information online, and the company’s First Amendment rights to select and curate users’ content. Montana passed a law in May that...
Latest Draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty Is A Big Step Backward
A new draft of the controversial United Nations Cybercrime Treaty has only heightened concerns that the treaty will criminalize expression and dissent, create extensive surveillance powers, and facilitate cross-border repression. The proposed treaty, originally aimed at combating cybercrime, has morphed into an...
U.S. Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? And Who Do They Share that Information With?
U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has sent a much-needed letter to car manufacturers asking them to clarify a surprisingly hard question to answer: what data cars collect? Who has the ability to access that data? Private companies can often be a black box of secrecy that obscure basic...
The Intelligence Committees’ Proposals for a 702 Reauthorization Bill are Beyond Bad
The Government Shouldn’t Prosecute People With Unreliable “Black Box” Technology
On Tuesday, EFF urged the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in that state, to affirm that a witness who has no knowledge of the proprietary algorithm used in black box technology is not qualified to testify to its reliability. We filed this amicus brief in Commonwealth...
