< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Recognizing the worst in government transparency. The Foilies are co-written by EFF and MuckRock and published in alternative newspapers around the country through a partnership with the…
Category: Deeplinks
Four Reasons to Protect the Internet this International Women’s Day
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Today is International Women’s Day, a day celebrating the achievements of women globally but also a day marking a call to action for accelerating equality and improving the lives of women…
Four Infosec Tools for Resistance this International Women’s Day
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> While online violence is alarmingly common globally, women are often more likely to be the target of mass online attacks, nonconsensual leaks of sensitive information and content,…
Four Actions You Can Take To Protect Digital Rights this International Women’s Day
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> This International Women’s Day, defend free speech, fight surveillance, and support innovation by calling on our elected politicians and private companies to uphold our most fundamental rights—both online and offline. 1. Pass…
Four Voices You Should Hear this International Women’s Day
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Around the globe, freedom of expression varies wildly in definition, scope, and level of access. The impact of the digital age on perceptions and censorship of speech has been felt across…
The Atlas of Surveillance Removes Ring, Adds Third-Party Investigative Platforms
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Running the Atlas of Surveillance, our project to map and inventory police surveillance across the United States, means experiencing emotional extremes. Whenever we announce that we’ve added new data points to…
Victory! EFF Helps Resist Unlawful Warrant and Gag Order Issued to Independent News Outlet
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Over the past month, the independent news outlet Indybay has quietly fought off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department.…
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot?
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Can free and open source software projects like Caddy and Traefik eventually replace EFF’s Certbot? Although Certbot continues to be developed, we think tools like these help…
Privacy First and Competition
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> “Privacy First” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first? Whether you’re…
European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In a milestone judgment – Podchasov v. Russia – the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that weakening of encryption can lead to general and indiscriminate…
Voting No on Prop E Is Easy and Important for San Francisco
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> San Francisco’s ballot initiative Proposition E is a dangerous and deceptive measure that threatens our privacy, safety, and democratic ideals. It would give the police more power…
Privacy Isn’t Dead. Far From It. | EFFector 36.3
As we continue the journey of fighting for digital freedoms, it can be hard to keep up on the latest happenings. Thankfully, EFF has a guide to keep you in the loop! EFFector 36.3 is out now and covers the…
Celebrating 15 Years of Surveillance Self-Defense
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> On March 3rd, 2009, we launched Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD). At the time, we pitched it as, “an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government…
A Virtual Reality Tour of Surveillance Tech at the Border: A Conversation with Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> This interview is crossposted from The Markup, a nonprofit news organization that investigates technology and its impact on society. By: Monique O. Madan, Investigative Reporter at The Markup After reading my…
Ghana’s President Must Refuse to Sign the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> After three years of political discussions, MPs in Ghana’s Parliament voted to pass the country’s draconian Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill…
We Flew a Plane Over San Francisco to Fight Proposition E. Here’s Why.
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Proposition E, which San Franciscans will be asked to vote on in the March 5 election, is so dangerous that last weekend we chartered a plane to…
Sen. Wyden Exposes Data Brokers Selling Location Data to Anti-Abortion Groups That Target Abortion Seekers
< 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 Jack Beck, an EFF legal intern In a recent letter to the FTC and SEC, Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) details new information…
EFF to D.C. Circuit: The U.S. Government’s Forced Disclosure of Visa Applicants’ Social Media Identifiers Harms Free Speech and Privacy
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Special thanks to legal intern Alissa Johnson, who was the lead author of this post. EFF recently filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals…
Podcast Episode: Open Source Beats Authoritarianism
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concerns and preferences are…
EFF Statement on Nevada’s Attack on End-to-End Encryption
EFF learned last week that the state of Nevada is seeking an emergency order prohibiting Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger for all users in the state under the age of 18. The motion for a temporary…