< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Facial recognition is a threat to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. EFF supports strict restrictions on face recognition use by private companies, and total…
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EFF Submits Comments on FRT to Commission on Civil Rights
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Because our faces are often exposed and, unlike passwords or pin numbers, cannot be remade, governments and businesses, often working in partnership, are increasingly using our faces to track our whereabouts,…
What Does EFF Mean to You?
We could go on for days talking about all the work EFF does to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. In fact, we DO go on for days talking about it —…
Bad Amendments to Section 702 Have Failed (For Now)—What Happens Next?
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted against considering a largely bad bill that would have unacceptably expanded the tentacles of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
Virtual Reality and the ‘Virtual Wall’
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> When EFF set out to map surveillance technology along the U.S.-Mexico border, we weren’t exactly sure how to do it. We started with public records—procurement documents, environmental…
The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the First Amendment Protects
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This week,…
Speaking Freely: Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> This interview has been edited for length and clarity.* Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is the executive director of FORUM-Asia. She has worked for many years in human rights…
Podcast Episode: Antitrust/Pro-Internet
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In…
“Infrastructures of Control”: Q&A with the Geographers Behind University of Arizona’s Border Surveillance Photo Exhibition
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Guided by EFF’s map of Customs & Border Protection surveillance towers, University of Arizona geographers Colter Thomas and Dugan Meyer have been methodologically traversing the U.S.-Mexico border and photographing the infrastructure…
Federal Court Dimisses X’s Anti-Speech Lawsuit Against Watchdog
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Melda Gurakar. Researchers, journalists, and everyone else has a First Amendment right to criticize social media platforms and their…