Triumphs, Trials, and Tangles From California's 2024 Legislative Session
California’s 2024 legislative session has officially adjourned, and it’s time to reflect on the wins and losses that have shaped Californians’ digital rights landscape this year.EFF monitored nearly 100 bills in the state this session alone, addressing a broad range of issues related to privacy, free speech, and innovation. These...
No Matter What the Bank Says, It's YOUR Money, YOUR Data, and YOUR Choice
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and switch to that bank, with just a couple of clicks. We love this kind of thing: the coolest...
Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff
A federal court recently ordered Google to make it easier for Android users to switch to rival app stores, banned Google from using its vast cash reserves to block competitors, and hit Google with a bundle of thou-shalt-nots and assorted prohibitions.Each of these measures is well crafted, narrowly tailored, and...
Cop Companies Want All Your Data and Other Takeaways from This Year’s IACP Conference
Artificial intelligence dominated the technology talk on panels, among sponsors, and across the trade floor at this year’s annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).IACP, held Oct. 19 - 22 in Boston, brings together thousands of police employees with the businesses who want to sell them...
EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah”
This year, a far-reaching, complex new piece of legislation comes into effect in EU: the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which represents some of the most ambitious tech policy in European history. We don’t love everything in the DMA, but some of its provisions are great, because they center the...
The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance
Disability Rights Are Technology Rights
The UK Must Act: Alaa Abd El-Fattah Still Imprisoned 25 Days After Release Date
In Appreciation of David Burnham
We at EFF have long recognized the threats posed by the unchecked technological prowess of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Since our founding in 1990, we have been in the forefront of efforts to impose meaningful legal controls and accountability on the secretive activities of those entities, including the National...
How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.
EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation to demand that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) furnish the public with an estimate of exactly how many...
