The Atlanta Police Department has been snooping on social media to closely monitor the meetings, protests, canvassing–even book clubs and pizza parties–of the political movement to stop “Cop City,” a police training center that would destroy part of an urban forest. Activists already believed they were likely under surveillance by...
This analysis is based on the latest draft of the U.N. Cybercrime Treaty (Rev 3) or before, and highlights its potential risks to free expression and misuse.The draft UN Cybercrime Convention was supposed to help tackle serious online threats like ransomware attacks, which cost billions of dollars in damages every...
The Texas settlement is welcome, but it also highlights the need to give consumers their own private right of action to enforce consumer data privacy laws.
The proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty puts security researchers and journalists at risk of being criminally prosecuted for their work identifying and reporting computer system vulnerabilities, work that keeps the digital ecosystem safer for everyone.The proposed text fails to exempt security research from the expansive scope of its cybercrime...
As UN delegates sat down in New York this week to restart negotiations, calls are mounting from all corners—from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to Big Tech—to add critical human rights protections to, and fix other major flaws in, the proposed UN surveillance treaty, which as...
EFF’s Certbot is now installed on over 4 million web servers, where it’s used to maintain HTTPS certificates for more than 31 million websites. The recent achievement of these milestones helps show the success of the project and the important role it plays in the infrastructure of a secure...
The Senate just passed a bill that will let the federal and state governments investigate and sue websites that they claim cause kids mental distress. Don't let politicians and bureaucrats decide what people should read and view online.
The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention dangerously undermines human rights, opening the door to unchecked cross-border surveillance and government overreach. Despite two and a half years of negotiations, the draft treaty authorizes extensive surveillance powers without robust safeguards, omitting essential data protection principles. This risks turning international efforts to fight cybercrime...
En una carta enviada la semana pasada a la Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC), los senadores Ron Wyden y Edward Markey instaron a la FTC a investigar a varias empresas automovilísticas sorprendidas vendiendo y compartiendo información de sus clientes sin un consentimiento claro. Además de los datos...
La propuesta de Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Ciberdelincuencia es un amplio pacto de vigilancia que impone medidas intrusivas de vigilancia nacional y obliga a los Estados a cooperar en la vigilancia y el intercambio de datos. Exige a los Estados que se ayuden mutuamente en las investigaciones...
Los tratados internacionales de la ONU no están normalmente en el radar de los usuarios. A menudo son debatidos a lo largo de muchos años por diplomáticos y funcionarios de Viena o Nueva York, y su importancia suele pasarse por alto o perderse en la avalancha de información y noticias...
هذا هو الجزء الأول من سلسلة مستمرة.إن تورط الحكومة في تعديل المحتوى يثير مخاوف خطيرة بشأن حقوق الإنسان في كل سياق. منذ السابع من أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول، تعرضت منصات التواصل الاجتماعي للتحد بسبب عمليات الإزالة غير المبررة للمحتوى المؤيد للفلسطينيين/ات - أحيانًا بناءً على طلب الحكومة الإسرائيلية -...
At a virtual briefing today, experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media outlined the human rights risks posed by the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty. They explained that the draft convention, instead of addressing core cybercrimes,...
No sabemos mucho más acerca de cuándo las presiones del gobierno a las empresas de medios sociales -es decir, intentar presionarlas para que censuren la expresión de los usuarios- violan la Primera Enmienda; pero sí sabemos que las demandas basadas en tales acciones serán difíciles de ganar. En...
