EFF Enters the Competition Fray: 2019 Year in Review
None of us signed up for an Internet composed of “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four”, but here we are, watching …
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Fancy New Terms, Same Old Backdoors: The Encryption Debate in 2019
Almost every week, we hear about another corporate data breach or government attack on privacy. For anyone who wants real privacy online, encryption is the essential component. Governments around the …
America Is Still in Desperate Need for a Fiber Broadband for Everyone Plan: Year in Review 2019
Earlier this year, EFF noted that the United States is facing a high-speed broadband access crisis. For the foreseeable future, it appears that a supermajority of Americans will not have …
Protests and Technology in Latin America: 2019 in Review
Growing dissatisfaction with political leadership. Social and economic constraints. Reprisals against austerity measures. Harassment against community and political leaders. All issues that in different combinations have led to massive protests …
Time to Save Alice: 2019 in Review
All too often, software patents stop more innovation than they promote. Patents are legal instruments that can be used to sue people and companies for creating, selling, or using software. …
Threat Lab: Year in Review 2019
EFF’s Threat Lab Team has only just launched and already has reached some fantastic milestones. This team was created to look deeply into how surveillance technologies are used to target …
Caught Between Worlds: Imprisoned Tech Users In 2019
Saeed Malekpour crossed the border from Iran to Turkey at night, terrified of capture. He was fleeing from the country that had held him prisoner for a decade, escaping with …
Smart Home Tech, Police, and Your Privacy: Year in Review 2019
If 2019 confirmed anything, it is that we should not trust the microphones and cameras that large corporations sell us to put inside and near our homes. Thanks to the …
Seizing Products for Design Patent Owners Isn’t CBP’s Job
Uh oh, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) have teamed up again to introduce legislation that would promote the interests of patent owners at the public’s expense. This …
Victory: Brookline Votes to Ban Face Surveillance
With the passage of Article 25 on December 11, the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, became the fifth municipality in the nation to ban its government agencies from using face surveillance. …