One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then either block or flag...

في العام 2017 لكنها بدأت تتشكل في عام 2022 - وهناك الكثير من الشد والجذب. لدى مشروع المعاهدة القدرة على إعادة صياغة القوانين الجنائية في جميع أنحاء العالم، وربما إضافة أكثر من 30 جريمة جنائية وسلطات شرطية موسعة جديدة للتحقيقات الجنائية المحلية والدولية على حد سواء.بالنظر إلى أن قوانين...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 29 voted 8 to 3 to approve on first reading a policy that would formally authorize the San Francisco Police Department to deploy deadly force via remote-controlled robots. The majority fell down the rabbit hole of security theater: doing anything to...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots. This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF’s stance is clear: police should not arm robots.TAKE ACTIONEMAIL...

New York's legislature passed a landmark right-to-repair bill this year. Now it's up to Governor Hochul to make it law.Back in June, we asked New Yorkers to contact your Assemblymembers about the Digital Fair Repair Act, a landmark repair bill in New York. The bill passed the state legislature,...

Aktualisierung, 9 November 2022: Wir sind erleichtert, dass Aryan Eqbal und andere Verteidiger*innen digitaler Grundrechte aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurden. Jadi Mirmirani ist nach wie vor zu Unrecht inhaftiert. Wir werden die Entwicklung weiterhin verfolgen.Wir, die unterzeichnenden Menschenrechtsorganisationen, verurteilen aufs Schärfste die rücksichtslose Verfolgung, Schikanierung und Verhaftung von Technologieexpert*innen und...

Tor, the onion router, remains one of the most effective censorship circumvention technologies. Millions of people use the Tor network every day to access the internet without fear of surveillance and censorship.Most people get on the Tor network by downloading the Tor Browser and connecting to a relay. But...