< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Utah cannot stifle young people’s First Amendment rights to use social media to speak about politics, create art, discuss religion, or to hear from other users discussing…
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Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> If you run a site on the open web, chances are you’ve noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your…
The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Trump administration has been heavily invested in consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, or perhaps AI-queryable, super database. The compiling of all…
Judges Stand With Law Firms (and EFF) Against Trump’s Executive Orders
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> “Pernicious.” “Unprecedented… cringe-worthy.” “Egregious.” “Shocking.” These are just some of the words that federal judges used in recent weeks to describe President Trump’s politically motivated and vindictive…
Statement on California State Senate Advancing Dangerous Surveillance Bill
In the wake of the California State Senate’s passage of S.B. 690, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), TechEquity, Consumer Federation of California, Tech Oversight California, and ACLU California Action issued a joint statement warning that the bill would put the…
Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor’s Magic Number
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first,…
San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city’s controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous…
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians’ right to access tools,…
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts Would Make Bad Patents Easier to Get—and Harder to Fight
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Two dangerous bills have been reintroduced in Congress that would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent system more balanced. The Patent Eligibility Restoration…
The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In criminal prosecutions, electronic monitoring (EM) is pitched as a “humane alternative” to incarceration – but it is not. The latest generation of “e-carceration” tools are burdensome,…