What Low-Income People Will Lose with a Deadlocked FCC
DSA Agreement: No Filternet, But Human Rights Concerns Remain
Update: On 16 June, following the approval by the Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee, the EU Parliament’s Internal Market Committee overwhelmingly endorsed the deal on the EU’s Digital Services Act. EFF helped to ensure that the final language steered clear of intrusive filter obligations. The DSA is expected to...
Plaintiffs Press Appeals Court to Rule That FOSTA Violates the First Amendment
Two human rights organizations, a digital library, a sex worker activist, and a certified massage therapist on Monday appealed a ruling that denied their constitutional challenge to FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act), an overbroad and censorious internet law that harms sex workers.The plaintiffs,...
Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do.
Our Fight To Prevent Patent Suits From Being Shrouded in Secrecy
The public has a right to know what happens when companies litigate in publicly funded courts. Unfortunately, when it comes to patent cases, companies routinely ignore the public’s rights—for example, by filing entire documents under seal without making any attempt to justify that much secrecy. Even when courts have specific...
Victory! Maryland Legislature Says Police Must Now Be Trained To Recognize Stalkerware
Maryland's legislature has unanimously passed a bill that will require law enforcement agencies to learn, as part of their standard training, to recognize the common tactics of electronic surveillance and the laws around such activities. This victory will help provide survivors of domestic abuse, intimate partner violence, and other electronic...
Stop Forced Arbitration in Data Privacy Legislation
People who want their day in court should be able to have it. That's why EFF has long opposed forced arbitration agreements—agreements that require people to resolve conflicts without going to court—because they place unfair limits on one’s ability to exercise their fundamental rights. Too often,...
Scraping Public Websites (Still) Isn’t a Crime, Court of Appeals Declares
Reiterating its prior common-sense opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in hiQ v. LinkedIn that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act likely does not bar scraping data from a public website against the wishes of the website owner. Last year, after the Supreme Court decided its first...
Mobile MitM: Intercepting Your Android App Traffic On the Go
California May Require Low-Cost Broadband from Subsidized Networks
Through the pandemic, the state of California passed a number of bills that resulted in a once-in-a-generation, multi-billion dollar investment to solve the digital divide. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in response, initiated a proceeding to explore the rules, expectations, and standards necessary to turn available funds...
