Privacy

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered.  When governments invoke...

Moving Goalposts: Football, Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Surveillance

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of...

Dangerous data

Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early

Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now....

Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime

As long as people have had more than one purchasing option, they’ve been comparing those options and looking for...

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it...

Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem

On March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory...

Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law

Another court has ruled that copyright can’t be used to keep our laws behind a paywall. The U.S. Court of Appeals for...

👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7

Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent...

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

This is the third installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You...

EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next?

The EU’s so-called Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has...