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...

Les négociations pour un projet de traité de l'ONU sur la cybercriminalité ont commencé en 2017 mais ont commencé à prendre forme en 2022 - et les enjeux sont importants. Le projet de traité a le potentiel de réécrire les lois pénales du monde entier, en ajoutant éventuellement plus...

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,...

Nous, les organisations de défense des droits humains soussignées, condamnons fermement la persécution impitoyable, le harcèlement et l'arrestation de technologues et de défenseurs des droits numériques par les autorités iraniennes dans le cadre de la répression meurtrière des manifestations à l'échelle nationale, et exigeons leur libération immédiate et inconditionnelle.Dans une...

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...