The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 29 voted 8 to 3 to approve on first reading a policy that would formally authorize the San Francisco Police Department to deploy deadly force via remote-controlled robots. The majority fell down… Read More ›
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Coalition of Human Rights, LGBTQ+ Organizations Tell Congress to Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act
Yesterday, nearly 100 organizations have asked Congress not to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would “force providers to use invasive filtering and monitoring tools; jeopardize private, secure communications; incentivize increased data collection on children and adults; and… Read More ›
Red Alert: The SFPD want the power to kill with robots
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote soon on a policy that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to use deadly force by arming its many robots. This is a spectacularly dangerous idea and EFF’s stance is clear:… Read More ›
Demand Your Right to Repair in New York State
New York’s legislature passed a landmark right-to-repair bill this year. Now it’s up to Governor Hochul to make it law. Back in June, we asked New Yorkers to contact your Assemblymembers about the Digital Fair Repair Act, a landmark repair… Read More ›
Stop the Persecution: Iranian Authorities Must Immediately Release Technologists and Digital Rights Defenders
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ ruthless persecution, harassment, and arrest of technologists and digital rights defenders, and demand their immediate and unconditional release. In an attempt to crush the popular uprising and further restrict… Read More ›
Snowflake Makes It Easy For Anyone to Fight Censorship
Tor, the onion router, remains one of the most effective censorship circumvention technologies. Millions of people use the Tor network every day to access the internet without fear of surveillance and censorship. Most people get on the Tor network by… Read More ›
Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
Jump straight to the Online Privacy for Nonprofits Guide to Better Practices Today, the vast majority of websites and emails that you encounter contain some form of tracking. Third-party cookies let advertisers follow you around the web; tracking pixels in emails… Read More ›
EFF and Partners Call on Indonesia to Repeal Invasive Content Moderation
EFF joined SAFEnet and a dozen digital rights organizations in urging the Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information to repeal its invasive content moderation rules, known as the Ministerial Regulation Number 5 (MR5) and its amendment, Ministerial Regulation Number 10… Read More ›
British Citizen Alaa Abd El Fattah Demands An End to Mistreatment in Egyptian Prison
Egyptian blogger, coder, and free speech activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is on day 45 of a hunger strike in protest of his mistreatment in an Egyptian prison. Alaa was sentenced, without due process, late last year, after spending two… Read More ›
SafeGraph’s Disingenuous Claims About Location Data Mask a Dangerous Industry
On Tuesday, Motherboard reported that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards. In response, SafeGraph agreed to… Read More ›