Author Archives
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An Urgent Year for Interoperability: 2022 in Review
Walled gardens can be great: we all like it when Stuff Just Works because a single company oversees all its elements. Walled gardens can be terrible: when all of our data, our social relations and our educational, romantic, professional… Read More ›
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Users Worldwide Said "Stop Scanning Us": 2022 in Review
The online conversations that bring us closer together can help build a world that’s more free, fair, and creative. But talking to each other only works when the people talking have their human rights respected, including their right to speak… Read More ›
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The State of Online Free Expression Worldwide: 2022 in Review
It’s been a tumultuous year for free expression globally. From internet shutdowns, crackdowns on expression and closed-door partnerships to attempts to restrict anonymity and end to end encryption, in many places, digital rights are under threat. And while the European… Read More ›
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Police Drones and Robots: 2022 in Review
The rising tide of policing by robots and drones may seem relentless or even inevitable. But activism, legislative advocacy, and public outrage can do a lot to protect our safety and freedom from these technologies. This year began with a… Read More ›
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The Battle For Online Speech Moved To U.S. Courts: 2022 in Review
EFF and our supporters have fought off numerous wrongheaded attempts by Congress to regulate online speech, including several that we wrote about last December. The bevy of bad internet regulation proposals coming out of Congress hasn’t stopped. In 2022, the… Read More ›
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Privacy Shouldn't Clock Out When You Clock In: 2022 in Review
EFF continued to expand our work on technology issues in the workplace in 2022. We first renewed our attention to worker privacy when the specter of “bossware”—tracking software on work devices—reared its ugly head at the start of the pandemic…. Read More ›
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The Adoption of the EU's Digital Services Act: A Landmark Year for Platform Regulation: 2022 in Review
2022 marked an important year for digital rights across the European Union as the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November seeking to foster a safer and more competitive digital space. The DSA overhauls the EU’s… Read More ›
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Hacking Governments and Government Hacking in Latin America: 2022 in Review
In 2022, cyber-attacks on government databases and systems broke into headlines in several Latin American countries. These attacks have exposed government systems’ vulnerabilities—including sometimes basic ones, like failing to keep software updated with critical patches—and shown how attacks can affect… Read More ›
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Raising A Glass with EFF Members: 2022 in Review
Over the past few years, just like the rest of the world, EFF has had to adapt to change and face new challenges. We’ve even had to relearn how we did things before most of the world shut down for… Read More ›
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EFF’s Threat Lab Sharpens Its Knives: 2022 in Review
EFF’s Threat Lab is dedicated to deep-dive investigations that examine technology-enforced power imbalances in society. In 2022 we’ve sharpened our knives and honed our skills in an effort to bring down the stalkerware industry, taken aim at invasive surveillance by… Read More ›
