< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s…
Category: Deeplinks
The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention is a Blank Check for Surveillance Abuses
< 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 the first post in a series highlighting the problems and flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out our detailed analysis on the criminalization…
The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention is a Blank Check for Unchecked Surveillance Abuses
< 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 the first post in a series highlighting the problems and flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out our detailed analysis on the criminalization…
If Not Amended, States Must Reject the Flawed Draft UN Cybercrime Convention Criminalizing Security Research and Certain Journalism Activities
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The latest and nearly final version of the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention—dated May 23, 2024 but released today June 14—leaves security researchers’ and investigative journalists’ rights perilously…
Hand me the flashlight. I’ll be right back…
< 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 time for the second installment of campfire tales from our friends, The Encryptids—the rarely-seen enigmas who’ve become folk legends. They’re helping us celebrate EFF’s summer membership…
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Abandoning a Phone Should Not Mean Abandoning Its Contents
< 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 written by EFF legal intern Danya Hajjaji. Law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant to search data contained in abandoned cell phones,…
Encode Justice NC – the Movement for a Safe, Equitable AI
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Electronic Frontier Alliance is proud to have such a diverse membership, and is especially proud to ally with Encode Justice. Encode Justice is a community that…
The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know.
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Dozens of policing agencies are currently using cell-site simulators (CSS) by Jacobs Technology and its Engineering Integration Group (EIG), according to newly-available documents on how that company provides CSS capabilities to…
Shhh. Did you hear that?
< 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 Day One of EFF’s summer membership drive for internet freedom! Gather round the virtual campfire because I’ve got special treats and a story for you: New…
EFF Covers Secrets in Your Data on NOVA
< 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 the weekend. You decide you want to do something fun with your family—maybe go to a local festival or park. So, you start searching on your…
EFF Covers Secrets in Your Data on NOVΛ
< 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 the weekend. You decide you want to do something fun with your family—maybe go to a local festival or park. So, you start searching on your…
The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Remains Too Flawed to Adopt
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention, scheduled for a critical concluding session from 29 July to August 9th, poses a significant threat to global human rights unless major…
Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s…
EU Council Presidency’s Last-Ditch Effort For Mass Scanning Must Be Rejected
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> As the current leadership of the EU Council enters its final weeks, it is debating a dangerous proposal that could lead to scanning the private files of…
Security, Surveillance, and Government Overreach – the United States Set the Path but Canada Shouldn’t Follow It
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Canadian House of Commons is currently considering Bill C-26, which would make sweeping amendments to the country’s Telecommunications Act that would expand its Minister of Industry’s power…
Win for Free Speech! Australia Drops Global Takedown Order Case
As we put it in a blog post last month, no single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire internet. That’s why EFF celebrates the news that Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is dropping its legal effort to have…
Car Makers Shouldn’t Be Selling Our Driving History to Data Brokers and Insurance Companies
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> You accelerated multiple times on your way to Yosemite for the weekend. You braked when driving to a doctor appointment. If your car has internet capabilities, GPS…
Podcast Episode: AI on the Artist’s Palette
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has…
EFF Appeals Order Denying Public Access to Patent Filings
< 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 bad enough when a patent holder enforcing their rights in court try to exclude the public from those fights. What’s even worse is when courts endorse…
The Alaska Supreme Court Takes Aerial Surveillance’s Threat to Privacy Seriously, Other Courts Should Too
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In March, the Alaska Supreme Court held in State v. McKelvey that the Alaska Constitution required law enforcement to obtain a warrant before photographing a private backyard…