< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation…
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U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency’s “Remote Video…
EFF to Third Circuit: TikTok Has Section 230 Immunity for Video Recommendations
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF legal intern Nick Delehanty was the principal author of this post. EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit…
A Flourishing Internet Depends on Competition
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of “kill…
California Attorney General Issues New Guidance on Military Equipment to Law Enforcement
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> California law enforcement should take note: the state’s Attorney General has issued a new bulletin advising them on how to comply with AB 481—a state law that…
Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don’t Use Gen AI to Write Reports
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which handles all prosecutions in the Seattle area, has instructed police in no uncertain terms: do not use AI to write…
Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook to wage war on your privacy, according to Jake Snow of the ACLU of Northern California. We…
Courts Agree That No One Should Have a Monopoly Over the Law. Congress Shouldn’t Change That
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Some people just don’t know how to take a hint. For more than a decade, giant standards-development organizations (SDOs) have been fighting in courts around the country,…
EFF and IFPTE Local 20 Attain Labor Contract
First-Ever, Three-Year Pact Protects Workers’ Pay, Benefits, Working Conditions, and More < div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they…
Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In its recent report, Civil Rights Implications of Face Recognition Technology (FRT), the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified serious problems with the federal government’s use of…