We Called on the Oversight Board to Stop Censoring “From the River to the Sea” — And They Listened
Earlier this year, the Oversight Board announced a review of three cases involving different pieces of content on Facebook that contained the phrase “From the River to the Sea.” EFF submitted to the consultation urging Meta to make individualized moderation decisions on this content rather than a blanket...
Stopping the Harms of Automated Decision Making | EFFector 36.12
Curious about the latest digital rights news? Well, you're in luck! In our latest newsletter we cover topics including the Department of Homeland Security's use of AI in the immigration system, the arrest of Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov, and a victory in California where we helped kill...
Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah
School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety
Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software...
You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions
U.S. Federal Employees: Plant Your Flag for Digital Freedoms Today!
Like clockwork, September is here—and so is the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pledge period! The CFC is the world’s largest and most successful annual charity campaign for U.S. federal employees and retirees. You can now make a pledge to support EFF’s lawyers, technologists, and activists in the fight for privacy...
EFF Calls For Release of Alexey Soldatov, "Father of the Russian Internet"
EFF was deeply disturbed to learn that Alexey Soldatov, known as the “father of the Russian Internet,” was sentenced in July to two years in prison by a Moscow court for alleged “misuse” of IP addresses. In 1990, Soldatov led the Relcom computer network that made the first Soviet...
