Category: Business

“Only a fraction of investment by companies is now driven by traditional concerns such as low labour costs,” said senior UNCTAD official, Anastasia Nesvetailova. “Instead, value is moving into strategic sectors, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, clean energy, advanced computing, where the barriers to entry are high and rising.” Access issues The agency identified increasing export controls, […]

Following the devastation of the past three years, productive capacity in Gaza has been severely damaged, markets disrupted and the cost of basic goods has risen sharply. Their experiences reflect different parts of the same challenge: sustaining livelihoods that still exist, helping businesses restart and creating new opportunities where livelihoods have disappeared. Running a business […]

EFF strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the websites and social media accounts of a dozen organizations have been blocked by court order, while over 60 members and activists have been detained, their […]

EFF was thrilled to join organizers, advocates, and activists in the East Bay for the second annual Oakland Tech Week last week. We are grateful to our friends at MediaJustice and Upturn for inviting us co-present this all-day event, “Building Beyond Big Tech: Organizing Oakland’s Future”, on Sept. 30.  The event, hosted by the Kapor […]

In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information.  This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven purges of state voter rolls. We all deserve to live in a […]

WASHINGTON — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd have launched a new evergreen investment vehicle designed to mobilize institutional capital for emerging markets at scale. Supported by a $300 million anchor investment from Japanese financial group Tokio Marine Group—comprising $200 million from […]

This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recent COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF. Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? […]

Today is DAF Day! This event highlights the millions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) people have set up to make charitable donations and change the world. If you have a DAF, consider supporting EFF today. Decisions about your privacy, encryption, artificial intelligence, online speech, and digital security will determine whether technology empowers people or concentrates power in […]

LONDON — BT Group has stepped in to acquire the consumer and wholesale divisions of TalkTalk out of administration in a rescue deal valued at approximately £400 million, preventing the potential collapse of one of the United Kingdom’s major broadband providers. The transaction, overseen by administrators at Alvarez & Marsal, secures the continuous broadband services […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced an agreement to acquire World Labs, an artificial intelligence startup founded by AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The acquisition marks AMD’s largest transaction since its $50 billion purchase of Xilinx in 2022, underscoring the chipmaker’s aggressive […]