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EFF to Court: Protect Our Health Data from DHS
The federal government is trying to use Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. So EFF and our friends at EPIC and the Protect Democracy Project have filed an amicus brief asking a judge to block this dangerous violation of federal data privacy laws.Last month, the AP...
Dating Apps Need to Learn How Consent Works
Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy over their profit. But dating apps are taking shortcuts in safeguarding the privacy and security of users in favour of developing...
When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance
EFF to Court: The DMCA Didn't Create a New Right of Attribution, You Shouldn't Either
Amid a wave of lawsuits targeting how AI companies use copyrighted works to train large language models that generate new works, a peculiar provision of copyright law is suddenly in the spotlight: Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 1202 restricts intentionally removing or changing copyright management...
California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use
A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a significant victory for innovation, freedom to code, and the open web.EFF opposed this bill from...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request...
Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism
About the Episode
We always hear about the death of journalism. But a few groups of people are fighting back and modeling a new path forward for journalism. We speak to Jason Koebler of 404 Media and David Roth of Defector about what they've learned and what challenges they're facing now.
Episode 2: From DIY to Publishing
About the Episode
In this episode, we speak with Preeti Chhibber, a writer who comes from a place that many of us do: being a fan. She has taken her interests and skills-often honed online-from nontraditional writing to more traditional publishing. As creatures of the internet, we also talk about how we can all be better consumers of online information.
We Support Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ARTICLE 19 strongly support the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the categorization regulations of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act.The Foundation – the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects – announced its legal challenge...
