In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed...

Instead of relaxing for the summer, EFF is in first gear defending your rights online! Catch up on what we're doing with the latest issue of our EFFector newsletter. This time we're sharing updates regarding California law enforcement illegally sharing drivers' location data out-of-state, the heavy burden Congress has...

UPDATE: On August 21, 2024, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion following the remand from the U.S. Supreme Court. In its opinion, the Sixth Circuit in turn remanded the case back to the district court to allow Lindke to conduct additional factual development (discovery) in light of the Supreme...

Despite a long history of courts ruling that government efforts to regulate speech online harm all internet users and interfere with their First Amendment rights, state and federal lawmakers continue to pass laws that do just that. Three separate rulings issued in the past week show that...