EFF and ARTICLE 19 Submission to the European Commission on the DSA Trusted Flagger Guidelines
EFF and ARTICLE 19 have submitted joint comments to the European Commission on draft guidelines for the Digital Services Act’s trusted flagger mechanism. Having long advocated for a DSA that protects freedom of expression while preserving intermediary liability protections and the prohibition on general monitoring, we welcome the...
California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features
🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13
The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see and say online. Supporters claim the KIDS Act is needed to...
European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off its Interoperability Requirements
One of the best bulwarks against monopoly is interoperability—that is making a new product or service work with an existing product or service. Interoperability allows users, and not the manufacturers of their devices or largest player in a market, to decide what application best serves them. Unsurprisingly, companies like Apple...
Don’t Repeat NY’s 3D Printing Blunder
EFF at Black Girl Nerds Meetup at San Diego Comic-Con
Black Girl Nerds (not EFF) will host this event. Find EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass and EFF Social Media and Video Manager Kenyatta Thomas at the event! You can also find all EFF panels and events at San Diego Comic-Con here.From the Organizers: Black Girl...
Sony Nerfs Videogame Ownership
Building Our Future Together
Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay—Accountability Must Keep Pace
This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here.When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleted nonviolent Arabic-language...
