EFF at DragonCon
Join EFF at Dragon Con! We're excited to be back with a bunch of talks on the Electronic Frontiers Forum track @ Dragon Con.Join the CauseInterested in supporting the fight for privacy and free expression online? Become an EFF member today to support the lawyers,...
Victory! Pen-Link's Police Tools Are Not Secret
Victory! Ninth Circuit Limits Intrusive DMCA Subpoenas
From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet
If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring...
New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230
In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users’ speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further efforts to stifle online speech.The new documents, disclosed in...
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
Long Live Short-Lived Certificates!
Out Of The Box - Bangkok (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Engineering Alexis Hancock will be speaking.From the Organizers: The landscape of web public key infrastructure (PKI) is changing and updating to become faster, nimbler, and more resilient.Why...
🫥 Spotify Face Scans Are Just the Beginning | EFFector 37.10
Catching up on your backlog of digital rights news has never been easier! EFF has a one-stop-shop to keep you up to date on the latest in the fight against censorship and surveillance—our EFFector newsletter.This time we're covering an act of government intimidation in Florida when the state ...
Torture Victim’s Landmark Hacking Lawsuit Against Spyware Maker Can Proceed, Judge Rules
PORTLAND, OR – Saudi human rights activist Loujain Alhathloul’s groundbreaking lawsuit concerning spying software that enabled her imprisonment and torture can advance, a federal judge ruled in an opinion unsealed Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut of the District of Oregon ruled that Alhathloul’s lawsuit...
Podcast Episode: Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the world and exterminate humanity. That’s a pretty wide spectrum, and leaves a lot of people...
