< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a new “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule that will force your bank to make it easy for you to extract…
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Young People May Be The Biggest Target for Online Censorship and Surveillance—and the Strongest Weapon Against Them
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Over the last year, state and federal legislatures have tried to pass—and in some cases succeeded in passing—legislation that bars young people from digital spaces, censors what they are allowed to…
How GoGuardian Invades Student Privacy
< 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-authored by legal intern Kate Prince. Jump to our detailed report about GoGuardian and student monitoring tools. GoGuardian is a student monitoring tool that watches…
Celebrating the Internet Freedom Movement at the EFF Awards
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> “It would be easy to see the world as all doom and gloom when you’re tackling these issues… But we do this work because we CAN fix…
What the !#@% is a Passkey?
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> This is part 1 of our series on passkeys. Part 2, on privacy, is here. A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The…
Passkeys and Privacy
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> This is part 2 of our series on passkeys. See part 1 here. In our previous article we described what a passkey is: a few hundred bytes of data stored in…
What’s the Goal and How Do We Get There? Crucial Issues in Brazil’s Take on Saving the News from Big Tech
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Amidst the global wave of countries looking at Big Tech revenues and how they relate to the growing news media crisis, many are asking whether and how…
Access to Law Should Be Fully Open: Tell Congress Not to Be Fooled by the Pro Codes Act
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> It’s Open Access Week in the United States, which means it’s a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of the Open Access movement—and reinforce the need to keep…
EFF at FIFAfrica 2023
< 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 excited to be in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for this year’s iteration of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), organized by CIPESA (Collaboration…
The U.S. Government’s Database of Immigrant DNA Has Hit Scary, Astronomical Proportions
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The FBI recently released its proposed budget for 2024, and its request for a massive increase in funding for its DNA database should concern us all. The…