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,...
Border Surveillance Technology with Berkeley Center for New Media
Berkeley Center for New Media (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass will be speaking. From the Organizers: In pursuing its agenda of security theater, the U.S. government has turned the border into the main stage for...
