EFF legal intern Jack Beck contributed to this post.A California trial court recently departed from wide-ranging precedent and held that Snap, Inc., the maker of Snapchat, the popular social media app, had created a “defective” product by including features like disappearing messages, the ability to connect with people through mutual...
In a case being heard Monday at the Supreme Court, 45 Washington lawmakers have argued that government communications with social media sites about possible election interference misinformation are illegal.Agencies can't even pass on information about websites state election officials have identified as disinformation, even if they don't request that any...
Avec l'adoption du KOSA, les informations auxquelles je pourrai accéder en tant que mineur seront limitées et censurées, sous prétexte de « me protéger », ce qui relève de la responsabilité de mes parents, PAS du gouvernement. J'ai tellement appris sur le monde et sur moi-même grâce aux médias sociaux,...
لماذا لا تعتقدمؤسسة الجبهة الإلكترونيةأن التغييرات الأخيرة تعمل على تحسين الرقابة التي يفرضها KOSA؟لم تغير النسخة الأخيرة من قانون سلامة الأطفال على الإنترنت (KOSA) وجهة نظرنا النقدية تجاه التشريع. وقد أدت هذه التغييرات إلى قيام بعض المنظمات بإسقاط معارضتها لمشروع القانون، لكننا ما زلنا نعتقد أنه مشروع...
In January, San Diego voted to reduce public oversight over police surveillance even before the ordinance enforcing that oversight has been fully implemented.
بدعم قوي من الحزبين، صوت مجلس النواب الأمريكي بأغلبية 352 صوتًا مقابل 65 لتمرير قانون HR 7521 هذا الأسبوع، وهو مشروع قانون من شأنه حظر تيكتوك TikTok على مستوى البلاد إذا لم يقم مالكه الصيني ببيع تطبيق الفيديو الشهير. لم يتضح بعد مستقبل مشروع قانون تيكتوك في...
Our concerns about the selling and misuse of location data for those seeking reproductive and gender healthcare are escalating amid a recent wave of cases and incidents demonstrating that the digital trail we leave is being used by anti-abortion activists.The good news is some states and tech companies...
Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies,...
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Alissa Johnson, who was the lead author of this post. Earlier this month, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that harmonized standards are a part of EU law, and thus must be accessible to EU citizens and residents free of charge.While it...
What do House Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barbara Lee have in common with House Republicans like Thomas Massie and Andy Biggs? Not a lot. But they do know an unconstitutional bill when they see one.These and others on both sides of the aisle were among the ...
Special thanks to EFF legal intern Jack Beck, who was the lead author of this post. Amid heavy criticism for its ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel, South by Southwest—the organizer of an annual conference and music festival in Austin—has been on the defensive. One tool in their arsenal: bogus...
Welcome to your U.S. presidential election year, when all kinds of bad actors will flood the internet with election-related disinformation and misinformation aimed at swaying or suppressing your vote in November. So… what’re you going to do about it? As EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in 2020,...
لقد عادت خطة الكونجرس التي لا أساس لها لحظر تيكتوك TikTok تحت ستار حماية بياناتنا، هذه المرة في شكل مشروع قانون جديد - "قانون حماية الأمريكيين/ات من التطبيقات الأجنبية الخاضعة للرقابة" H.R. 7521 - والذي اكتسب زخما خطيرًا في الكونغرس. تم تقديم هذا التشريع من الحزبين إلى مجلس النواب...
The U.S. Senate is moving forward with two bills that would enrich patent trolls, patent system insiders, and a few large companies that rely on flimsy patents, at the expense of everyone else. One bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would bring back some of the worst software...
