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It’s Power Up Your Donation Week! Right now, your contribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation will go twice as far to protect digital privacy, security, and free speech rights for everyone. Will you donate today to get a free 2X match?Power Up!Give to EFF and get a free...
When a company makes a promise, the public should be able to rely on it. Today, nearly every person in the U.S. is a customer of either Amazon or Google—and many of us are customers of both technology giants. Both of these companies havemadepublic...
Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive...
EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a second amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an argument EFF has been making in the ...
There’s quite a few rights you give up by purchasing a digital copy of your favorite game, movie, or album! On Digital Rights Bytes we outline the differences between owning physical and digital media, and why we need to break down that barrier.
Recently I traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak at the PDX People’s Digital Safety Fair, meet up with five groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, and attend BSides PDX 2024. Portland’s first ever Digital Safety Fair was a success and five of our six EFA organizations in the area...
Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social justice in South Africa and throughout the world, focusing on affordable Internet access. She was the executive director of Association for Progressive...
EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass will lead a virtual tour of surveillance technology at the U.S.-Mexico border in this online guest lecture with Sheffield Hallam University.Zoom link: https://shu.zoom.us/j/6443530218?omn=98652850850
Update 11/21/2024: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 in favor of PREVAIL, and several senators expressed concerns about the bill. Thanks to EFF supporters who spoke out! We will continue to oppose this misguided bill. Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent...
As always, EFF is excited to be back in Washington, D.C. for the final ShmooCon! Stop by the EFF booth to chat with some of our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all. You can even pick up a special gift as a...
EFF is excited to attend CypherCon for the first time! We'll be at the conference with an info booth, so be sure to stop by and chat with some of our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all. You can even pick up...
As always, EFF is excited to be back in Mesa, AZ for CactusCon! If you're attending CactusCon 13, be sure to stop by the EFF booth to chat with some of our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all. You can even pick...
As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that ever-tightening relationship will impact much needed transparency and accountability for private AI and for-profit automated decision making systems.
