EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over what the government could and could not use Anthropic’s technology to do. Anthropic had made it...
Encrypted Resistance: Youth Revolt in Memes, Art & Metadata
SXSW (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will be speaking.From the Organizers: As authoritarian regimes globally expand digital control through AI-powered surveillance, censorship algorithms, and language policing, free expression faces coordinated attacks. These systems now share...
BSides Prague: Eva Galperin Keynote
Using data to investigate the global surveillance industry
Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton will be speaking.From the Organizers: Around the world, shadowy firms are siphoning location data from apps, telecom networks, and rogue brokers to track people with...
EFF Spring Speakeasy: NYC
Join EFF staff and local online rights supporters for a Speakeasy meet up on Wednesday, March 25 in NYC!Raise a glass and discover EFF's latest work defending digital freedoms online. This event is a free, casual gathering to give you a chance to mingle with local EFF supporters and meet...
EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional Geofence Searches
EFF to Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal
Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under the server test, whomever...
National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’
SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on a national book tour. In Privacy’s...
Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs,...
