This post was authored by the mysterious Raul Duke.The weather was unusually cool for a summer night. Just the right amount of bitterness in the air for attorneys from all walks of life to gather in San Francisco’s Mission District for EFF’s 16th annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night.Inside Public Works, attorneys...
Join EFF staff and local online rights supporters for a Speakeasy meet up on Friday, July 12 in NYC! EFF staff will be in town attending HOPE XV, please be sure to stop by the booth and say hi!Raise a glass and discover EFF's latest work...
Join EFF on a road trip through the information superhighway! As you choose the perfect playlist for the trip we'll share our findings about the latest generation of cell-site simulators; share security tips for protestors at college campuses; and rant about the surveillance abuses that could come from...
Police in Minnesota are buying and flying more drones than ever before, according to an annual report recently released by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Minnesotan law enforcement flew their drones without a warrant 4,326 times in 2023, racking up a state-wide expense of over $1...
Government officials across the U.S. frequently promote the supposed, and often anecdotal, public safety benefits of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), but rarely do they examine how this very same technology poses risks to public safety that may outweigh the crimes they are attempting to address in the first...
California lawmakers are debating an ill-advised bill that would require internet users to show their ID in order to look at sexually explicit content. EFF has sent a letter to California legislators encouraging them to oppose Assembly Bill 3080, which would have the result of censoring the internet...
Na nossa recente comparação entre o Mastodon, o Bluesky e o Threads, detalhamos algumas das diferenças entre as redes sociais de micro-blogue semelhantes, e uma das principais distinções é o controle que tem sobre o que vê como usuário. Já explicámos como pôr o fluxo de mensagens (“feed”)...
O atual êxodo do Twitter deu vida a uma nova forma de utilizar as redes sociais. Em vez de poucas plataformas que tentam controlar a sua vida em linha, as pessoas estão a recuperar o controle através da criação de abordagens mais abertas e democráticas das redes sociais. Algumas delas...
Did you know Disney’s Steamboat Willie entered the public domain this year? Since its 1928 debut, U.S. Congress has made multiple changes to copyright law, extending Disney’s ownership of this cultural icon for almost a century. A century.Creativity should spark more creativity.That’s not how intellectual property laws are...
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for everyone to understand and available for everyone to use in ways that augment us and advance our goals — not for corporations or...
California Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced A.B. 1814, a bill that would supposedly regulate police use of facial recognition technology. The problem is that it would do little to actually change the status quo of how police use this invasive and problematic technology. Police use of facial recognition...
This extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s top physician into a censor.
Este é o segundo artigo em uma série destacando os problemas e falhas na proposta Convenção da ONU sobre Cibercrime. Confira nossa análise detalhada sobre a criminalização de atividades de pesquisa de segurança sob a convenção proposta. Faltam apenas algumas semanas para o Comitê Ad Hoc das Nações Unidas...
Este é o primeiro artigo em uma série destacando os problemas e falhas na proposta Convenção da ONU sobre Cibercrime. Confira O Projeto da Convenção da ONU sobre Cibercrime é um carta-branca para Abusos de Vigilância. A versão mais recente e quase final da convenção da ONU sobre Crime...
WASHINGTON, DC—Matthew Guariglia, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has been named a National Governing Institutions Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. This multi-month residential fellowship is designed to support scholars working on research that can impact policy making. Guariglia—who...
