Texas Wins $1.4 Billion Biometric Settlement Against Meta. It Would Have Happened Sooner With Consumer Enforcement
Our Last Chance to Stop KOSA | EFFector 36.10
EFF is chugging along, continuing to push for your rights online! We're sending out a last call for supporters to tell Congress to vote NO on the Kids Online Safety Act, exposing the flaws of the UN Cybercrime Treaty, and continuing to update Privacy Badger to protect...
Security Researchers and Journalists at Risk: Why You Should Hate the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
The proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty puts security researchers and journalists at risk of being criminally prosecuted for their work identifying and reporting computer system vulnerabilities, work that keeps the digital ecosystem safer for everyone.The proposed text fails to exempt security research from the expansive scope of its cybercrime...
Calls Mount—from Principal UN Human Rights Official, Business, and Tech Groups—To Address Dangerous Flaws in Draft UN Surveillance Treaty
As UN delegates sat down in New York this week to restart negotiations, calls are mounting from all corners—from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to Big Tech—to add critical human rights protections to, and fix other major flaws in, the proposed UN surveillance treaty, which as...
Certbot Is Now on 4 Million Servers, Maintaining Over 31 Million Websites
EFF’s Certbot is now installed on over 4 million web servers, where it’s used to maintain HTTPS certificates for more than 31 million websites. The recent achievement of these milestones helps show the success of the project and the important role it plays in the infrastructure of a secure...
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
Weak Human Rights Protections: Why You Should Hate the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention dangerously undermines human rights, opening the door to unchecked cross-border surveillance and government overreach. Despite two and a half years of negotiations, the draft treaty authorizes extensive surveillance powers without robust safeguards, omitting essential data protection principles. This risks turning international efforts to fight cybercrime...
Senators Expose Car Companies’ Terrible Data Privacy Practices
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week, Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the FTC to investigate several car companies caught selling and sharing customer information without clear consent. Alongside details previously gathered from reporting by The New York Times, the letter also...
Tech Trivia at DEF CON 32
Join us for EFF Tech Trivia at DEF CON 32 on Saturday, August 10 at 18:30! EFF's team of technology experts have crafted challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial aspects of digital security, online rights, and internet culture. Competing teams...
EFF’s Concerns About the UN Draft Cybercrime Convention
Update: This post has been updated to clarify the scope of the compelled assistance provisions and the broad nature of criminalization and electronic evidence gathering. The final version of the draft convention can still be used to expand the reach of repression under the pretext of combating cybercrime. By permitting...
