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...
Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way
EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches
Americans Are Uncomfortable with Automated Decision-Making
Imagine a company you recently applied to work at used an artificial intelligence program to analyze your application to help expedite the review process. Does that creep you out? Well, you’re not alone.Consumer Reports recently released a national survey finding that Americans are uncomfortable with use of artificial intelligence...
