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By Gigi Sohn, Chair, EFF Board of Directors  With the impending departure of longtime, renowned, and beloved Executive Director Cindy Cohn, EFF and leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates have developed a profile for her successor.  While Cindy is irreplaceable, we hope that everyone who knows and loves EFF will help us find our next […]

This post was written by EFF intern Nazli Ungan as an update to a 2020 Deeplinks post by Cindy Cohn. Everyone wants an election that is secure and reliable and that will ensure that the voters’ actual choices are reflected in the results. That’s as true as we head into the 2024 U.S. general elections […]

The post was written by Laura Vidal (PhD), independent researcher in learning and digital rights. This is part two of a series. Part one on surveillance and control around the July election is here. Over the past decade, the government in Venezuela has meticulously constructed a framework of surveillance and repression, which has been repeatedly […]

This post was written by EFF fellow Miranda McClellan. Teens between the ages of  13 and 17 are being tracked across the internet using identifiers known as Advertising IDs. When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data […]