What Policymakers Need to Know About the First Amendment and Section 230
The Supreme Court just heard two cases – Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google – that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online. Last week, EFF hosted a panel …
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Civil Society Organizations Urge Ghana’s Parliament to Reject Repressive Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
With Ghana’s ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021’ set to undergo its second reading in the Ghanaian Parliament, EFF and other civil society partners are calling on the …
Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 35.3
New month, new digital rights updates! Version 35, issue 3 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening …
ADC’s New Argentina Report Flags How ISPs Can Do More for Users’ Data Privacy
Argentinian telecommunications providers have made strides in their commitments to protecting users’ data privacy, but the gains are uneven—they are doing a better job at informing about data processing and …
The Foilies 2023
Recognizing the worst in government transparency. The Foilies are co-written by EFF and MuckRock News and published in alternative newspapers around the country through a partnership with the Association of …
Appeals Court Upholds Restriction on Twitter’s First Amendment Right to Publish National Security Transparency Report
A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week marks a new low in judicial deference to classification and national security, even against the nearly inviolable First …
Flipper Zero Devices Being Seized by Brazil’s Telecom Agency
You may have heard of the Flipper Zero. It’s marketed as a “Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks”—a programmable portable device packed with hardware that facilitates wireless penetration testing and hacking …
Section 702’s Unconstitutional Domestic Spying Program Must End
A few months ahead of its expiration this fall, the Biden administration has announced its intention to seek renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—an invasive …
Podcast Episode: Making the Invisible Visible
What would the internet look like if it weren’t the greatest technology of mass surveillance in the history of mankind? Trevor Paglen wonders about this, and he makes art from …
EFF and Student Press Law Center Urge Supreme Court to Require Government to Show Subjective Intent in Threat Cases
EFF Intern Reema Moussa authored this post. In our highly digitized society, online speech like posts, messages, and emails, can be taken out of context, repackaged in ways that distort …