In their effort to prevent states from protecting a free and open Internet, a small handful of massive and extraordinarily profitably Internet service providers (ISPs) are telling state legislatures that network neutrality would hinder their ability to raise revenues to pay for upgrades and thus force them to charge consumers...

Kids are often the involuntary early adopters of controlling, abusive technology, whether that's spying school laptops, location tracking phones apps, or teenager-repelling buzzers that emit tones that adult ears can't hear. If you want to see your future, look at what we're doing to the kids.

Kids are often the involuntary early adopters of controlling, abusive technology, whether that's spying school laptops, location tracking phones apps, or teenager-repelling buzzers that emit tones that adult ears can't hear. If you want to see your future, look at what we're doing to the kids around you.

As we move from having computers in our pockets to computers on our skin to computers inside our body, whether we use computers becomes less voluntary, and who gets to control those computers gets more critical.

Earlier today in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, EFF convened a closed-door briefing for Senate staff about the realities of device encryption. While policymakers hear frequently from the FBI and the Department of Justice about the dangers of encryption and the so-called Going Dark problem, they very rarely...

Every Californian from Yreka to Chula Vista, from Pismo Beach to Truckee, deserves a say in what types of surveillance technology are deployed in their communities and the governing policies for their use. They deserve a public process in which officials who are accountable to voters make the ultimate call...

EFF supporter Benjamin McLean was kind enough to send along his "Mashup Maker" as a new entry to our Catalog of Missing Devices, a tour through some of the legitimate, useful and missing gadgets, tools and services that don't exist but should. They're technologies whose chance to exist was...

Encryption is back in the headlines again, with government officials insisting that they still need to compromise our security via a backdoor for law enforcement. Opponents of encryption imagine that there is a “middle ground” approach that allows for strong encryption but with “exceptional access” for law enforcement. Government officials...

Certain reports and publications from U.S. government agencies, such as those of the Congressional Research Service, have become important reference works due to their reputation for being relatively in-depth, up to date, and factual. The United States Trade Representative's (USTR) Special 301 Report [PDF], the latest annual edition...

In today's world, your ability to choose something as everyday as a typeface depends on the permission of the company that made your device and the software that runs on it. Choosing your typeface may seem like a novelty, but type design can have far-ranging implications for accessibility (some fonts...