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The government shouldn’t be meddling in the content moderation process. A 5th Circuit ruling that upheld Texas’ social media law went against bedrock 1st Amendment principles.
From Tech Trivia to DEF CON to the EFF Awards, EFF was so excited to be able to see our members online and in-person this year. Thank you for your support!
Cyber-attacks in 2022 reinforced to Latin American governments why using encryption and fixing security vulnerabilities matter. They also reinforced the serious consequences of government surveillance without solid safeguards, transparency, and oversight.
After extensive deliberation, the EU’s Digital Services Act rejected strict takedown deadlines that would have suppressed legal, valuable, and benign speech. EFF also helped to ensure that the final language steered clear of intrusive filter obligations.
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are soliciting nominations for The Foilies, our annual report that names and shames government agencies and officials who thwart the public's right to access information.
Thank you to all of the EFF members who joined forces with us and kept the fight for internet freedom strong during this challenging year. We could not do it without you.
Cyber-attacks in Latin America throughout 2022 exposed both systemic government vulnerabilities and arbitrary practices. Read our year in review on why security, privacy, and human rights protection should always go hand in hand
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Meta’s reversal of its decision to require a Facebook login for VR should be a lesson to its competitors: users will not tolerate being corralled into privacy-invading procedures.
EFF’s “Threat Lab”:
- Worked to bring down the stalkerware industry
- Took aim at invasive surveillance by police
- Raised red flags around the security and privacy of daycare apps
Developed new tools and techniques for reversing android malware
: “Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to patiently explain that using a password manager is still good... to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.”
The time to figure out the appropriate safeguards for the future of the metaverse and XR is now, before headsets collecting biometrics and other personal data go mainstream.
EFF’s Threat Lab is a crack team of technologists and researchers who issue FOIAs, guide policymakers, push back against big tech, and dissect hardware and software, all to help people who are exploited by technologically-enforced power imbalances.
"There's a consent aspect, there's a privacy aspect, and there's a security aspect that really needs to be considered a lot more thoughtfully before TSA moves forward with any of this," EFF’s
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Informed consent is vital: Users must know they’re signing up for a global identity system, especially one using biometrics, a uniquely sensitive form of authentication. “It’s really hard to revoke & reissue your iris,” EFF’s
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Nearly 200 records requests and months of meticulous research poring over thousands of documents led to our groundbreaking story unveiling Fog Data Science, the secretive data broker that sells our phone app location data to cops.
“Public outcry and the diligent organizing efforts of local groups changed what would have been a rubber stamping of the killer robot policy into a ban on deadly force by robots,” EFF’s
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Earlier this year, EFF broke the story about Fog Data Science, a sketchy data broker whose business model is helping police violate your Fourth Amendment rights.