Favorite Sorry, EFF doesn’t hand out candy like the Easter Bunny, but we are here to keep you updated on the latest digital rights news with our EFFector newsletter! This edition of EFFector explains how you can help us push back against the TAKE IT DOWN Act, an internet censorship law; why we oppose site-blocking…
Join us at the OFA Symposium 2025: Advancing open technology impact in uncertain times
Favorite Be part of a global conversation on the future of openness at the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium 2025, taking place November 18–19 at the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through expert panels, case studies, and collaborative discussions, the Symposium will consider the transformative potential of openness in uncertain times. The Open…
New Release: Tor Browser 14.5
Favorite Tor Browser 14.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and distribution directory. This release marks the introduction of Connection Assist to Android, empowering mobile users who are subjected to strict censorship to unblock Tor at the press of a button. In addition, the Belarusian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Portugal) languages are now…
EFF Urges Court to Avoid Fair Use Shortcuts in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms
Favorite EFF has filed an amicus brief in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the many ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI developers. Most of the AI copyright cases raise an important new issue: whether the copying necessary to train a generative AI model is a non-infringing fair use. Kadrey, however, attempts to side-step fair use. The…
Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance
Favorite Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map—it’s a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare. In today’s world, your most private movements are harvested, aggregated, and sold…
New Release: Tails 6.14.2
Favorite This release is an emergency release to fix security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and the implementation of the Perl programming language. Changes and updates Update Linux to 6.1.133, which fixes multiple security vulnerabilities that may lead to a privilege escalation or information leaks. Update perl to 5.36.0-7+deb12u2, which fixes a heap-based buffer overflow…
Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor
Favorite At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates are hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but…
Cybersecurity Community Must Not Remain Silent On Executive Order Attacking Former CISA Director
Favorite Cybersecurity professionals and the infosec community have essential roles to play in protecting our democracy, securing our elections, and building, testing, and safeguarding government infrastructure. It is critically important for us to speak up to ensure that essential work continues and that those engaged in these good faith efforts are not maligned by an…
Certbot 4.0: Long Live Short-Lived Certs!
Favorite When Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority, started issuing 90 day TLS certificates for websites, it was considered a bold move that helped push the ecosystem towards shorter certificate life times. Beforehand, certificate authorities normally issued certificate lifetimes lasting a year or more. With 4.0, Certbot is now supporting Let’s Encrypt’s new capability for…
Congress Takes Another Step Toward Enabling Broad Internet Censorship
Favorite The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146) , a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of certain kinds of troubling online content. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it creates is…