Podcast Episode: What Police Get When They Get Your Phone
EFF’s New Series of How to Fix the Internet Podcast Tackles Toughest Issues in Tech
San Francisco—Troubled when Twitter takes down posts of people or organizations you follow? Concerned about protecting yourself and your community from surveillance? Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has got you, with the launch today of the first season of the How to Fix the Internet podcast, featuring conversations that can...
EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Podcast Offers Optimistic Solutions to Tech Dystopias
Federal Agencies Need to Be Staffed to Advance Broadband and Tech Competition
After Facebook Leaks, Here Is What Should Come Next
Every year or so, a new Facebook scandal emerges. These blowups follow a fairly standard pattern, at least in the U.S. First, new information is revealed that the company misled users about an element of the platform—data sharing and data privacy, extremist content, ad revenue, responses...
EFF to Supreme Court: Warrantless 24-Hour Video Surveillance Outside Homes Violates Fourth Amendment
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court today to review and reverse a lower court decision in United States v. Tuggle finding that police didn’t need a warrant to secretly record all activity in front of someone’s home 24 hours a day, for a...
Apple Has Listened And Will Retract Some Harmful Phone-Scanning
Remembering Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2021
EFF invites everyone to participate this Saturday, Nov. 13, in this year's (virtual) Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon—an annual event celebrating the life and continuing legacy of activist, programmer, and entrepreneur Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet...
The Public Should Know Who Profits From Patent Troll Lawsuits
Lawmakers Choose the Wrong Path, Again, With New Anti-Algorithm Bill
Facebook needs to be reined in. Lawmakers and everyday users are mad, having heard former Facebook employee Frances Haugen explain how Facebook valued growth and engagement over everything else, even health and safety. But Congress’s latest effort—to regulate algorithms that recommend content on social media platforms—misses the mark.We need...
