EFF Responds to EU Commission on the Digital Services Act: Put Users Back in Control
The European Union is currently preparing for a significant overhaul of its core platform regulation, the e-Commerce Directive. Earlier this year the European Commission, the EU’s executive, pledged to reshape Europe’s digital future and to propose an entire package of new rules, the Digital Services Act (DSA)....
Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing
Special thanks to Yael Grauer for additional writing and research.In June 2020, Santa Cruz, California became the first city in the United States to ban municipal use of predictive policing, a method of deploying law enforcement resources according to data-driven analytics that supposedly are able to predict perpetrators, victims, or...
COVID-19 Tracking Technology Will Not Save Us
Technology may be part of the solution to stopping the spread of COVID-19, but apps alone will not save us. As more states develop COVID exposure notification apps, institutions and the people they serve should remain skeptical and remember the bigger picture. This is still experimental, unproven...
Pass the Payment Choice Act
EFF Pilots an Audio Version of EFFector
Today, we are launching an audio version of our monthly-ish newsletter EFFector to give you a new way to learn about the latest in online freedom, and offer greater accessibility to anyone who is visually impaired or would just like to listen!Listen Now!Surveillance Shouldn’t Be a Prerequisite for an...
Star Trek and CBS: An Enterprising Takedown
For years, studios and networks have depended on San Diego Comic-Con to get fans excited about their upcoming shows and movies. Though the format shifted to an online format this year, that didn’t stop the likes of Marvel, CBS, and Cartoon Network from showing up and streaming their events online....
Cryptographer and Entrepreneur Jon Callas Joins EFF as Technology Projects Director
Some of the most important work we do at EFF is build technologies to protect users’ privacy and security, and give developers tools to make the entire Internet ecosystem more safe and secure. Every day, EFF’s talented and dedicated computer scientists and engineers are creating and making improvements to...
It’s Past Time for Coinbase to Issue Transparency Reports
EFF has become increasingly concerned that payment processors are being asked to turn over information on their customers, without any mechanism for the public to know who is making those requests, or how often. That’s why we are calling on Coinbase—one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the country—to start...
How California’s Assembly Killed The Effort to Expand Broadband for All Californians
California is facing a broadband access crisis, as parents are relying more on the Internet every day trying to keep their jobs in the midst of the pandemic while remotely educating their kids. The people of California need help, and the state should move forward now to begin the work...
Eff Oppose Unless Amended Ab 570
EFF and the SB 1130 Coalition opposing AB 570 unless it was amended to only finance 21st century ready networks.
