In the Internet age, copyright decisions can have enormous consequences for all kinds of activities, because almost everything we do on the Internet involves making copies. And when courts make a mistake, they may create all sorts of unexpected legal… Read More ›
Archive for May 2020
New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets — but Not for Police
As the coronavirus pandemic devastates the economy and tax revenues drop massively across the U.S., cities have begun to prepare for the hard times ahead by proposing slashed budgets and reduced public services at a time when so many of… Read More ›
The U.S. Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Some of Its Most Vulnerable Nations
As Covid-19 began spreading across the African continent in late March, the U.S. State Department took to Twitter to boast about American health assistance there. A March 25 tweet from the department highlighted more than $100 million in U.S. medical… Read More ›
Trump Hails "Good Bloodlines" of Henry Ford, Whose Anti-Semitism Inspired Hitler
Donald Trump’s campaign to change the subject from the coronavirus pandemic took a bizarre turn on Thursday, as the president paused during a speech at a Ford Motor Company plant in Michigan to praise the “good bloodlines” of the family… Read More ›
EFF to UN Expert on Racial Discrimination: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities
EFF submitted a letter to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to testify to the negative impacts of mass surveillance on vulnerable communities at the U.S. border. The Special Rapporteur… Read More ›
The CIA's Murderous Practices, Disinformation Campaigns, and Interference in Other Countries Still Shape the World Order and U.S. Politics
In the weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the most powerful former leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency did everything they could to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. President Obama’s former acting CIA chief Michael Morrell published a… Read More ›
International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19
Time and again, governments have used crises to expand their power, and often their intrusion into citizens’ lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen this pattern play out on a huge scale. From deploying drones or ankle monitors to enforce quarantine… Read More ›
New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company
Patent trolls don’t care much about innovation. Their lawsuits and threats are attempts at rent-seeking; they’re demanding money from people who make, use, or sell technology just for doing what they were already doing—for crossing the proverbial “bridge” that the… Read More ›
No to California Bill on Verified Credentials of COVID-19 Test Results
EFF opposes a California bill, A.B. 2004, that would authorize the issuers of COVID-19 test results to do so with digital verifiable credentials. This bill would take us a step towards national digital identification, create information security risks, exacerbate social… Read More ›
Surveillance Capitalism Meets the Coronavirus Shock Doctrine
LIVE: Thursday, May 28 at 4 p.m. ET Governments and tech giants around the world are using the Covid-19 crisis to advance a vision of a future in which “our every move, our every word, our every relationship is trackable,… Read More ›