Category: Business

The number of petitions being filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has collapsed. That’s not reason for celebration. The PTAB is an important line of defense against low-quality software patents being used in lawsuits against people and companies. The drop didn’t happen because suddenly patents have become higher quality. It’s simply because […]

Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Sturdivant, a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. Our brief details the vast, interconnected network of ALPRs that constantly track drivers around the country and […]

For the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly weakening the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a key human rights law that allows foreign nationals to sue persons or entities in civil court for harms resulting from violations of international law. The court’s recent ruling in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe I dealt […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Shares of Nvidia fell over 5% in early trading on Monday, November 9, 2026, after Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang admitted to having an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a businesswoman under surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies over suspected ties to Chinese espionage. The revelations prompted Nvidia’s board of directors to […]

FRANKFURT — The Lufthansa Group has announced its financial results for the third quarter, setting an all-time record for the highest quarterly revenue in corporate history. Buoyed by robust passenger yields, surging premium travel demand, and exceptional performances from cargo and maintenance divisions, group revenue climbed 9% year-on-year to reach €12.2 billion, up from €11.2 […]

What does the digital future look like? Who gets to imagine it, shape it, and make it real? Building a freer, more inclusive digital age requires not only challenging systems of surveillance and control, but also making space for creativity, community, and radical imagination.  That’s why earlier this year with the queer arts collective, we […]

Google is rightfully facing blowback for forcing K-12 schools to enable AI if they wanted to keep using Google search. The company quickly backtracked and decoupled and turned off the services by default, but made it clear search will continue to be just another AI chatbot. This mandate forces an ultimatum on educators: accept generative […]

SAN FRANCISCO / BEIJING — Artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion in China has encountered an unprecedented supply roadblock, with reports indicating that Nvidia is unable to fulfill roughly 99% of a massive $70 billion order for specialized AI graphics processors. Major Chinese technology titans—including Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, and ByteDance—had placed cumulative orders for approximately 6 […]

“The safety of young people in the digital environment cannot be assessed without also considering the safety of young people in offline environments. For millions of young people around the world, the digital environment is their safe place, their haven from an unsafe physical environment, community, or family situation. The digital environment may be the […]

On November 3, our colleagues at the Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) received notifications from X that the Delhi Police had issued takedown requests targeting 42 URLs. Among the accounts and posts targeted were those belonging to SFLC.in, the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), and X account @geoblockedindia, as well as posts documenting legal notices […]