🤫 Meta's Secret Spying Scheme | EFFector 37.7
Keeping up on the latest digital rights news has never been easier. With a new look, EFF's EFFector newsletter covers the latest details on our work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online.EFFector 37.7 covers some of the very sneaky tactics that Meta has been using...
Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key...
EFFecting Change: EFF Turns 35!
We're wishing EFF a happy birthday on July 10! Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. They've seen it all and in this special edition of our...
Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe
Today's Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free Speech and Undermines Privacy
Georgia Court Rules for Transparency over Private Police Foundation
A Georgia court has decided that private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) must comply with public records requests under the Georgia Open Records Act for some of its functions on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department. This is a major win for transparency in the state. The ...
Two Courts Rule On Generative AI and Fair Use — One Gets It Right
Things are speeding up in generative AI legal cases, with two judicial opinions just out on an issue that will shape the future of generative AI: whether training gen-AI models on copyrighted works is fair use. One gets it spot on; the other, not so much, but fortunately in...
Ahead of Budapest Pride, EFF and 46 Organizations Call on European Commission to Defend Fundamental Rights in Hungary
This week, EFF joined EDRi and nearly 50 civil society organizations urging the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President Henna Virkunnen, and Commissioners Michael McGrath and Hadja Lahbib to take immediate action and defend human rights in Hungary.The European Commission has a responsibility to protect...
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare
California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred...
