Recommendations Sought from Those Affected by Policies to Moderate, Suppress Speech San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today a call for feedback and recommendations from organizations and individuals around the world to update the landmark 2018 Santa Clara Principles…
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The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing
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Sharing Our Common Culture in Uncommon Times
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Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws
Twitter greeted its users with a confusing notification this week. “The control you have over what information Twitter shares with its business partners has changed,” it said. The changes will “help Twitter continue operating as a free service,” it assured.…
Lengthening Patent Terms by 10 Years is Exactly the Wrong Response to COVID-19
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Thermal Imaging Cameras are Still Dangerous Dragnet Surveillance Cameras
As governments around the world continue to seek solutions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, companies are eager to sell their technology as a silver bullet to defeating the virus. The public already has seen privacy-invasive proposals for geolocation tracking…
Google-Fitbit Merger Would Cement Google’s Data Empire
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How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight COVID-19
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California Legislator Introduces Fiber Broadband for All Bill
Senator Lena Gonzalez has introduced legislation (SB 1130), which would allow the California state government to actively promote the transition of the state’s legacy communications infrastructure into a multi-gigabit fiber network that is competitive, affordable, and available to all residents…
Harden Your Zoom Settings to Protect Your Privacy and Avoid Trolls
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Automated Moderation Must be Temporary, Transparent and Easily Appealable
For most of us, social media has never been more crucial than it is right now: it’s keeping us informed and connected during an unprecedented moment in time. People have been using major platforms for all kinds of things, from…
Victory! Federal Circuit Enables Public to Hear Arguments In Important Patent Case
Just like us, federal judges are continuing to grapple with the challenges of COVID-19 and its impact on their ability to do their jobs. Less than two weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington,…
The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution
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EFF to Supreme Court: Losing Your Phone Shouldn’t Mean You Lose Your Fourth Amendment Rights
You probably know the feeling: you reach for your phone only to realize it’s not where you thought it was. Total panic quickly sets in. If you’re like me (us), you don’t stop in the moment to think about why…
Are Your Identification Photos in a Face Recognition Database?
Take EFF’s Quiz to Help Uncover ‘Who Has Your Face’ San Francisco – A majority of Americans are in face recognition databases in use by the U.S. government. Are you one of them? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched…
Speaking Freely: Sandra Ordoñez
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Vallejo Must Suspend Cell-Site Simulator Purchase
As Bay Area residents sheltered at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vallejo City Council assembled via teleconference last week to vote on the purchase of one of the most controversial pieces of surveillance equipment—a cell-site simulator. What’s worse…
EFF Joins Locast Defense Team to Fight for TV Viewers’ Right to Use Free, Legal Streaming Service
Giant Broadcasters Abuse Copyright Laws to Go After Nonprofit San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined the legal team defending Sports Fans Coalition NY, Inc. (SFCNY), the nonprofit organization that runs Locast, a free, local TV streaming service facing…
EFF Asks California AG to Close Loopholes, Respect “Do Not Track” With Regulations
Today, EFF once again joined a coalition of privacy advocates filing comments with the California Attorney General (AG) on the latest proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in June 2018 and took effect…
Members of Congress Once Again Urge ICANN to Save Dot Org
As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we…
Now More Than Ever, Prisoners Should Have Some Access to Social Media
COVID-19 has trapped many of us in our homes, isolating us from family and friends and limiting our movements. But there are few people who feel the isolating impacts of COVID-19 more acutely than those who are actually incarcerated in…
EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment
Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined…
EFF Joins Coalition Urging Judicial Transparency During the COVID-19 Emergency
EFF and a number of other organizations that advocate for government transparency have signed onto a letter written by the First Amendment Coalition asking the California state judiciary to ensure public access to court proceedings and records. Many clerk’s offices…
The Feds Can Stop Patent Trolls from Endangering COVID-19 Testing and Treatment
It’s unthinkable that bad actors could take advantage of patent law and keep the public from getting access to COVID-19 tests and treatment, but they can and will—it already happened this month. Fortunately, an often-overlooked section of U.S. patent law…
Verily’s COVID-19 Screening Website Leaves Privacy Questions Unanswered
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Speaking Freely: An Interview with Cristian León
Cristian León, based in Buenos Aires, works for Asuntos del Sur, a “think/do tank” that works to strengthen democracy and participation. Originally from Bolivia, Cristian works on open government and democracy across several countries in Latin America, including conducting digital…
The Right to Anonymity is Vital to Free Expression: Now and Always
“There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with. They may be concerned about threats to their lives or livelihoods, or they may risk political or economic retribution. They…
Social Distancing, The Digital Divide, and Fixing This Going Forward
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User Privacy Champion Ashkan Soltani Joins EFF Advisory Board
EFF is proud to announce that independent researcher and technologist Ashkan Soltani has joined our advisory board, where he will share his expertise in privacy and security. Ashkan is a long-time EFF friend and collaborator whose research has informed our…
The California Public Records Act Is an Essential Right, Even During a State of Emergency
As Californians shelter-at-home up and down the state, the journalists and citizen watchdogs who file California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests know that trade-offs must be made. We know that local agencies may be understaffed at this time and that…
EFF and COVID-19: Protecting Openness, Security, and Civil Liberties
EFF and its members work to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has made obvious how important the Internet and digital tools are to our lives and how…
EFF and COVID-19: Protecting Openness, Security, and Civil Liberties
EFF and its members work to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has made obvious how important the Internet and digital tools are to our lives and how…
EFF and COVID-19: Protecting Openness, Security, and Civil Liberties
EFF and its members work to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has made obvious how important the Internet and digital tools are to our lives and how…
The Time Is Now: The Supreme Court Must Allow Live Cameras
At a time when government officials are justifiably limiting in-person gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19, the public should have access to essential government activities. The Supreme Court is no exception, which is why it must finally allow cameras…
Governments Haven’t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19
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Governments Must Commit to Transparency During COVID-19 Crisis
As government officials at all levels move quickly to respond to COVID-19 and protect the public’s health, it is vital that they also safeguard the public’s ability to participate in and access information about those decisions, EFF and a coalition…
Face Surveillance Is Not the Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis
In the current moment, governments may be tempted to funnel scarce public health resources into the use of face recognition to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health crises, especially a global pandemic, may require extraordinary measures in favor of…
Right to Repair in Times of Pandemic
Entropy isn’t just a word, it’s the (second) law (of thermodynamics): the idea that things tend towards chaos and brokenness. That’s why the Right to Repair is so close to our heart: fixing things is nothing less than the embodiment…
What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis
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Google Says It Doesn’t ‘Sell’ Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It.
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Google Says It Doesn’t “Sell” Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It.
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Phishing in the Time of COVID-19: How to Recognize Malicious Coronavirus Phishing Scams
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Heads Up Internet: A Dangerous Zombie CFAA Expansion Bill is Back
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Are Your Identification Photos in a Face Recognition Database?
Take EFF’s Quiz to Help Uncover ‘Who Has Your Face’ San Francisco – A majority of Americans are in face recognition databases in use by the U.S. government. Are you one of them? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched…
Announcing Who Has Your Face
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Unchecked Smart Cities are Surveillance Cities. What We Need are Smart Enough Cities.
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Unchecked Smart Cities are Surveillance Cities. What We Need Are Smart Enough Cities.
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Enough is Enough—Let it Expire
On March 15, 2020, Section 215—a provision of FISA with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired. That provision, along with two other provisions of FISA, lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of…
Show Support for Digital Rights During Video Calls with EFF Virtual Backgrounds
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African WhatsApp Modders are the Masters of Worldwide Adversarial Interoperability
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Tattoo Recognition Score Card: How Institutions Handled Unethical Biometric Surveillance Dataset
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Why Is South Korea a Global Broadband Leader?
A universal fiber network that was completed years ago. Millions of 5G users. Some of the world’s fastest and cheapest broadband connections. South Korea has all of these, while other nations that have the same resources lag behind. How did…
The Foilies 2020
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Court Orders Hearing in Uniloc’s Patent Case Against Apple to be Conducted by Phone, Citing COVID-19 Risks
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, citing public health efforts to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 transmission, ordered that an April hearing in the Uniloc v. Apple patent case be conducted by phone rather than in person…
New ¿Where Is My Data? Report: Five Years of Holding ISPs Accountable in Colombia
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New York State Legislator Introduces a Very Bad “Net Neutrality” Bill
In 2018, California established the gold standard of what states should be doing on net neutrality by passing a model law for other states to copy. So, naturally, that makes the job of any legislator truly interested in protecting net…
The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate. Take…
Police May Not Need a Warrant to Rummage Through Your Trash, But Warrantless Collection of DNA Is Unconstitutional
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The Graham-Blumenthal Bill Is an Attack on Online Speech and Security
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FAQ about the Tech Projects Director Role
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Coalition Asks California’s Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband for All
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently joined several California-based ISPs, tech companies, non-profits, and local governments to commend Governor Newsom for adopting a “Broadband for All” vision. But simply saying “broadband” without a clear eye towards the future risks having government…
Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis
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Victory: Android 11 Rolls out Improved Certificate Warnings
Now that HTTPS encrypts over 80% of web connections, powerful actors are targeting root certificate stores to compromise our security and surveil us. In the past year alone, that’s included a “market research” company secretly owned by Facebook and the…
NGO Community Urges ICANN to Scrutinize the .ORG Sale
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Public’s Right to Access Court Proceedings Calls For Livestreaming Hearing in Notorious Patent Troll Case
EFF Urges Court to Ensure Transparency In Case With Excessive, Unjustified Sealing Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged a panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to take a stand for open…
Tech Lobbyists Are Pushing Bad Privacy Bills. Washington State Can, and Must, Do Better.
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Ninth Circuit: Private Social Media Platforms Are Not Bound by the First Amendment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held in Prager University v. Google that YouTube is not a government actor bound by First Amendment limits simply because it hosts a forum for public speech. Rather, as EFF…
.ORG Isn’t Broken, and We Don’t Need Private Equity to ‘Fix’ It
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The Graham-Blumenthal Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption
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Argentinian Companies Still Have a Long Way to Go in Defense of Their Users’ Privacy, Second “Who Defends Your Data” Report Shows
Argentinian civil rights group Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) has just launched its second edition of the ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?) report, rating nine companies’ commitments to transparency and user privacy. Argentinian companies are off…
Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
Judge Blocks Religious Group’s Quest to Unmask Online Critic San Francisco – A Reddit commenter has won their fight to stay anonymous after facing an improper copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines…
Copyright Filters Are On a Collision Course With EU Data Privacy Rules
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Hundreds of New Yorkers Demand a Ban on NYPD Face Surveillance
Over two hundred New York City residents—including workers, parents, students, business owners, and technologists—have signed a petition calling to end government use of face surveillance in New York City. This morning, EFF and a coalition of over a dozen civil…
Schools Are Spying on Students – But Students Can Fight Back
EFF Launches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide for Students San Francisco – Schools across the country are increasingly using technology to spy on students at home, at school, and on social media. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a new Surveillance…
Help Us Save the Internet: EFF Seeks a Tech Projects Director
There’s a very rare opportunity available right now for an engineering director to join EFF’s leadership team, and we’re asking our community to help us find the perfect candidate. We’re doing an open hire for our Technology Projects Director role.…
Schools Are Pushing the Boundaries of Surveillance Technologies
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Reform or Expire
Earlier today, the House Committee on the Judiciary was scheduled to mark up the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020, a bill meant to reform and reauthorize Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, as well as some other provisions…
How Ring Could Really Protect Its Users: Encrypt Footage End-To-End
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Empty Promises Won’t Save the .ORG Takeover
The Internet Society’s (ISOC) November announcement that it intended to sell the Public Interest Registry (PIR, the organization that oversees the .ORG domain name registry) to a private equity firm sent shockwaves through the global NGO sector. The announcement came…
EFF Files Comments Criticizing Proposed CCPA Regulations
Today, EFF joined a coalition of privacy advocates in filing comments with the California Attorney General regarding its ongoing rulemaking process for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in 2018, and took effect on January 1,…
Apple, Tell Us More About Your App Store Takedowns
EFF and 10 human rights organizations called out Apple for enabling China’s censorship and surveillance regime through overly broad content restrictions on the App Store in China, and for its decision to move iCloud backups and encryption keys to within…
Court Report Provides New Details About How Federal Law Enforcement in Seattle Obtain Private Information Without Warrants
Federal law enforcement in Seattle sought an average of one court order a day to disclose people’s sensitive information such as calling history in the first half of 2019, according to a report released this year. The report, the first…
EFF Calls For Disclosure of Secret Financing Details Behind $1.1 Billion .ORG Sale, Asks FTC To Scrutinize Deal
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EFF Seeks Disclosure of Secret Financing Details Behind $1.1 Billion .ORG Sale, Asks FTC To Scrutinize Deal
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Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses
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EFF to Ninth Circuit: Border Searches of Electronic Devices Require a Warrant
Although the Ninth Circuit issued a strong opinion last year in favor of digital privacy rights at the border, EFF filed an amicus brief [PDF] in a new case urging the court to go a step further. The Ninth Circuit…
California’s Broadband Fund Ignores Fiber and Favors Slow DSL
The California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), a program launched in 2008 to connect all Californians to high-speed Internet, was an early success. It helped build middle mile open access fiber to hard-to-serve communities and delivered high-speed access to areas that…
Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy—But Ignores Larger Concerns
Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has announced extra layers of security and control for users after a wave of backlash from civil liberties and cyber security organizations like EFF and Mozilla. Organizations raised major concerns over Ring’s lack of effort…
Virginia Anti-SLAPP Bill is Good for Free Speech But Can Still Be Made Stronger
The Virginia legislature is on the verge of a big step forward for free expression. In the coming days, legislators will have the opportunity to pass a bill that would push back against harassing lawsuits called SLAPPs, or Strategic Lawsuits…
In Foreshadowing Cryptocurrency Regulations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Prioritizes Law Enforcement Concerns
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin foreshadowed the Trump administration’s plans for greater surveillance of cryptocurrency users during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. He noted that cryptocurrency was a “crucial area” for the Treasury Department to examine,…
California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers
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Reevaluating the DMCA 22 Years Later: Let’s Think of the Users
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EFF Fights to Protect Anonymity of Glassdoor Commenter
Speakers’ Opinions About Their Former Workplace Are Protected by First Amendment San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking a state court to protect the identity of an anonymous Glassdoor commenter who is being targeted by their former…
Uruguay Steps Too Quickly into the Right to be Forgotten Quagmire
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EFF, Internet Society, and Professors To Discuss Controversial Sale of the .ORG Registry
Senior Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz on Panel at American University Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and advocates for public interest organizations will participate tomorrow in an open discussion about a controversial plan by the nonprofit Internet Society to sell…
Appeals Court Win for Open Source Advocate Speaking Out on Licensing Restrictions
Bruce Perens Faced a Lawsuit Over a Blog Post – EFF Helped Him Fight Back San Francisco – An Open Source advocate and blogger criticizing a company, Open Source Security Inc. (OSS), has successfully defended a defamation lawsuit after an…
Europeans Deserve to Have Their Governments Test—Not Trust—Filters
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How Twitter’s Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
Twitter has publicly disclosed a security “incident” that points to long-standing problems with how the service handles phone numbers. Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were uploading large numbers of phone…
How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter
The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users’ phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to protect themselves. Earlier this week, Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down…
EFF Lawsuit Ends Censorship Against PETA on Public University’s Facebook Page
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