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Study of Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps Confirms Advocates’ Concerns of Privacy Harms

Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing the technical capabilities of 16 electronic monitoring (EM) smartphone apps used as “alternatives” to criminal and civil detention. The study, billed as the “first systematic analysis of the electronic monitoring apps ecosystem,” confirmed...

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Cifrado y Derechos Reproductivos (Encryption and Reproductive Rights)

The Alliance for Encryption in Latin America and the Caribbean, together with Cultivating Gender, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Instituto de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia do Recife, IP.rec and the Women Alive and Free movement, will hold a workshop discussing how encryption promotes reproductive rights. This is a Spanish-language event. The...

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EFF’s DEF CON 30 Puzzle—SOLVED

Each year at DEF CON, EFF unveils a limited edition EFF member t-shirt with an integrated puzzle for our supporters. And this year we had help from some special friends. Take a guided tour through each piece of the challenge with our intrepid puzzlemasters from the Muppet Liberation Front. Extreme...

It’s Time For A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law To Protect Online Speakers

Our country’s fair and independent courts exist to resolve serious disputes. Unfortunately, some parties abuse the civil litigation process to silence others’ speech, rather than resolve legitimate claims. These types of censorious lawsuits have been dubbed Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs, and they have been on the rise...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual Awards to Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Digital Defense Fund, and Kyle Wiens

SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that blogger, software developer, activist, and political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, abortion rights technology organization Digital Defense Fund, and iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens will receive the 2022 EFF Awards for their vital work in helping to ensure that...

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EFF Awards 2022

For thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has opened nominations to the public to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in technology. EFF’s annual Pioneer Award Ceremony celebrated the longtime stalwarts working on behalf of technology users...

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