< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> As British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah enters his fifth year in a maximum security prison outside Cairo, unjustly charged for supporting online free…
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School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine…
You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Being out in the world advocating for privacy often means having to face a chorus of naysayers and nihilists. When we spend time fighting the expansion of…
EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in Immigration Decisions
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF, Just Futures Law, and 140 other groups have sent a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must stop using artificial…
U.S. Federal Employees: Plant Your Flag for Digital Freedoms Today!
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Like clockwork, September is here—and so is the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) pledge period! The CFC is the world’s largest and most successful annual charity campaign for…
EFF Calls For Release of Alexey Soldatov, “Father of the Russian Internet”
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF was deeply disturbed to learn that Alexey Soldatov, known as the “father of the Russian Internet,” was sentenced in July to two years in prison by…
Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> A misguided bill that would have required many people to show ID to get online has died without getting a floor vote in the California legislature, where…
EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Constitution prohibits dragnet device searches, especially when those searches are designed to uncover political speech, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Court…
Americans Are Uncomfortable with Automated Decision-Making
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Imagine a company you recently applied to work at used an artificial intelligence program to analyze your application to help expedite the review process. Does that creep you out? Well, you’re…
The French Detention: Why We’re Watching the Telegram Situation Closely
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF is closely monitoring the situation in France in which Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was charged with having committed criminal offenses, most of them seemingly related to…