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Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | November 27, 2023

Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.15

With the holiday season upon us, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest digital rights news. Lucky for you, EFF's EFFector newsletter has you covered with the latest happenings, from a breakdown of our latest Privacy Badger update, an investigation into Android TV set-top boxes ...

Deeplinks Blog by Allison Morris | November 27, 2023

How We Fundraise

Hello from the fundraising team at EFF!If you are reading this, you are probably already a donor to EFF (thank you!) or are considering supporting us and want to do your due diligence. We’d like to share some information with you about how EFF raises money for digital rights and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | November 24, 2023

Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Letter to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

EFF has signed on to the following letter alongside 33 other organizations in support of a submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), first published here by English PEN. To learn more about Alaa's case, visit Offline.

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | November 21, 2023

The Eyes on the Board Act Is Yet Another Misguided Attempt to Limit Social Media for Teens

This heavy-handed plan to cut federal funding to any school that doesn’t block all social media platforms may have good intentions—like ensuring kids are able to focus on school work when they’re behind a desk—but the ramifications of such a bill would be bleak, and it’s not clear that it...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey, Jason Kelley | November 20, 2023

Protecting Kids on Social Media Act: Amended and Still Problematic

Senators who believe that children and teens must be shielded from social media have updated the problematic Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, though it remains an unconstitutional bill that replaces parents’ choices about what their children can do online with a government-mandated prohibition. As we wrote in...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | November 18, 2023

On His 42nd Birthday, Alaa Abd El Fattah’s Family Files UN Petition for His Release

Today is the birthday of Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent Egyptian-British coder, blogger, activist, and one of the most high-profile political prisoners in the entire Arab world. This will be the tenth birthday that he will spend in prison. But we are newly optimistic for his release: This...

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Monetized precarity: How platforms put trans people at risk for profit

EFF's Paige Collings joins a distinguished group of panelists to discuss how social media platforms put trans people at risk for profit. To set a reminder for this Spaces event, click here.

Press Release | November 16, 2023

EFF to Supreme Court: Fifth Amendment Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Cell Phone Passcodes to the Police

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling undermining Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and find that constitutional safeguards prevent police from forcing people to provide or use passcodes for their cell phones so officers can access the tremendous amount of private...

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | November 16, 2023

To Best Serve Students, Schools Shouldn’t Try to Block Generative AI, or Use Faulty AI Detection Tools

Generative AI gained widespread attention earlier this year, but one group has had to reckon with it more quickly than most: educators. Teachers and school administrators have struggled with two big questions: should the use of generative AI be banned? And should a school implement new tools to detect when...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | November 16, 2023

Speaking Freely: Agustina Del Campo

Agustina Del Campo is the Director at the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a law degree from Universidad Catolica Argentina and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College...

Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock | November 14, 2023

Low Budget Should Not Mean High Risk: Kids' Tablet Came Preloaded with Sketchyware

[Update: 10/02/2024]: Google has taken the tablet distributor Dragon Touch, off of their list of Play Protect certified phones and tablets. We are glad to see this development and encourage continued diligence in updating this list to keep consumers safe and make informed decisions with Android...

Press Release | November 14, 2023

EFF Urges FTC to Address American Resellers of Malware on Android TV Set-Top Boxes

SAN FRANCISCO—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must act to halt sales by Amazon, AliExpress, and other resellers of Android television set-top boxes and mobile devices manufactured by AllWinner and RockChip that have been pre-infected with malware before ever reaching consumers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged Tuesday in ...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Cindy Cohn, Mario Trujillo, Thorin Klosowski | November 14, 2023

To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First

In this report, we outline how many of the internet's ills have one thing in common: they're based on the business model of widespread corporate surveillance online. Dismantling this system would not only be a huge step forward to our digital privacy, it would raise the floor for serious discussions...

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Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly concerned about the harms they believe the internet and new technology are causing. The list is long, implicating child safety, journalism, access to healthcare data, digital justice, competition, artificial intelligence, and government surveillance, just to name a few. The stories behind them are...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | November 13, 2023

Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn’t be Tied to Funding the Government

Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding...

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Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Letter to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

The Eyes on the Board Act Is Yet Another Misguided Attempt to Limit Social Media for Teens

Protecting Kids on Social Media Act: Amended and Still Problematic

On His 42nd Birthday, Alaa Abd El Fattah’s Family Files UN Petition for His Release

Monetized precarity: How platforms put trans people at risk for profit

EFF to Supreme Court: Fifth Amendment Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Cell Phone Passcodes to the Police

To Best Serve Students, Schools Shouldn’t Try to Block Generative AI, or Use Faulty AI Detection Tools

Speaking Freely: Agustina Del Campo

Low Budget Should Not Mean High Risk: Kids' Tablet Came Preloaded with Sketchyware

EFF Urges FTC to Address American Resellers of Malware on Android TV Set-Top Boxes

To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First

Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn’t be Tied to Funding the Government

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