< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Legal intern Muhammad Essa Fasih contributed to this post. In the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing backlash on Palestine, Meta has…
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Our “How to Fix the Internet” Podcast is an Anthem Awards Finalist— Help Make It a Winner!
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist in the Anthem Awards Community Voice competition, and we need YOUR help to put it over the…
How to Secure Your Kid’s Android Device
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> After finding risky software on an Android (Google’s mobile operating system) device marketed for kids, we wanted to put together some tips to help better secure your…
Tor University Challenge: First Semester Report Card
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In August of 2023 EFF announced the Tor University Challenge, a campaign to get more universities around the world to operate Tor relays. The primary goal of…
Victory! Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to…
U.S. Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? And Who Do They Share that Information With?
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has sent a much-needed letter to car manufacturers asking them to clarify a surprisingly hard question to answer: what data cars collect? Who has the…
Latest Draft of UN Cybercrime Treaty Is A Big Step Backward
< 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 draft of the controversial United Nations cybercrime treaty has only heightened concerns that the treaty will criminalize expression and dissent, create extensive surveillance powers, and…
The Intelligence Committees’ Proposals for a 702 Reauthorization Bill are Beyond Bad
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Both congressional intelligence committees have now released proposals for reauthorizing the government’s Section 702 spying powers, largely as-is, and in the face of repeated abuse. The House…
The Government Shouldn’t Prosecute People With Unreliable “Black Box” Technology
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> On Tuesday, EFF urged the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in that state, to affirm that a witness who has no knowledge of the proprietary…
Speaking Freely: Ron Deibert
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Ron Deibert is a Canadian professor of political science, a philosopher, an author, and the founder of the renowned Citizen Lab, situated in the Munk School of…