An internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone. Though the effects of stigmatization and criminalization run deep, the sex worker community exemplifies how technology can help people reduce harm, share support, and offer experienced analysis to protect each other. But a 2018...

EFF and international allies Access Now, Article 19, Epicenter, and Global Partners Digital are in Vienna this week and next for the fifth round of negotiations on the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, along with the over 100 representatives of Member States hashing out a new draft text.While we have not...

Every few years, an unsourced report circulates that “the FBI says plugging into public charging kiosks is dangerous.” Here’s why you should ignore the freakout and install software updates regularly. Your phone is designed to communicate safely with lots of things – chargers , web sites, Bluetooth...

As many will remember, in August of 2022 the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed what it called “Tornado Cash” along with a list of Ethereum digital wallet addresses, on its “Specially Designated Nationals” (SDN) sanctions list. The goal was to prohibit anyone within the United States...

Figuring out the correct boundaries of software copyright protection is a difficult task. As several judges have put it, “applying copyright law to computer programs is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces do not quite fit.” Last week, the U.S. Court...

拟议《联合国网络犯罪公约》的谈判始于 2017 年，但于 2022 年才开始成型，其中涉及诸多利害关系。该公约草案也许会重写全球刑法，可能增加 30 多项犯罪行为，并为国内和国际刑事调查赋予更广泛的警方职权。考虑到现有的网络犯罪法律已被联合国大会指出“在某些情况下被滥用以打击人权捍卫者”，并“以违反国际法的方式危及他们的安全”，这些界定范围的放宽可能会加大对数十亿人的潜在影响，特别是在压制言论自由、加大政府监视力度和扩展国家调查技术手段等方面。