22+ hour, 28+ min ago  (968+ words) While the very public fight continues between the Department of Defense and Anthropic over whether the government can punish a company for refusing to allow its technology to be used for mass surveillance, another branch of the U.S. government is quietly…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (534+ words) Copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity. Too often, it's used to extract payouts from others. May First is a nonprofit membership organization that provides web hosting and technical infrastructure to social justice groups around the world. The allegedly infringing…...

2+ day, 52+ min ago  (225+ words) Amazon has completely ignored our original and follow-up letters. Google, meanwhile, has repeatedly promised to respond to our questions. Yet more than a year and a half later, we have seen no meaningful action by either company. Neither approach is…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (261+ words) Beyond Egypt: Regional Trends In Qatar and Bahrain, a social media post can result in up to five years in jail. In 2018, prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was convicted of "spreading false rumours in time of war, "insulting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (480+ words) Cohn will be joined by Adam Savage, former co-host of the Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters," to talk about the issues raised in her book, EFF's work. and the emerging battle over AI surveillance. WHEN:Wednesday, May 13th, 20265:00 pm to 8:00 pm PacificSCHEDULE:…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (174+ words) After years of tech industry experiments, smartglasses with embedded cameras and microphones have finally gone mainstream. And, disturbingly, sometimes it's not just their owners who are watching what these devices record. In this week's EFFector newsletter, we're taking a closer…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (914+ words) Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors' CareSAN FRANCISCO " The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (591+ words) This is the first installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The tools at their disposal are vast, allowing them to coordinate quickly and turn local grievances into visible, transnational moments of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (180+ words) Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper." But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive"from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1144+ words) The Foilies were written by EFF's Beryl Lipton, Dave Maass and Aaron Mackey and MuckRock's" Dillon Bergin, Kelly Kauffman and Anna Massoglia." For the last six years, a class of journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, has kicked…...