Category: Business

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 […]

LONDON — Sycamore Partners is nearing an agreement to sell UK pharmacy chain Boots to the Canadian branch of the Weston family in a deal valued at approximately $9 billion (£7 billion), including debt. The transaction, which could be finalized in the coming weeks, would mark a major return to the UK retail landscape for […]

NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday. On October 1, 2026, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New […]

Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), H.R. 10364, a bill that would give copyright owners a new legal tool to block Americans’ access to foreign websites accused of copyright infringement.  The basic […]

There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a […]

In a new blow to Ola Bini’s legal guarantees, Ecuadorean authorities retained the free software developer and security expert yesterday in Quito and ordered his immediate deportation from the country. He is barred from returning to Ecuador for 10 years.  According to information released by his lawyer, Bini was intercepted by a car with four […]

Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems by default without even thinking about potential alternatives. It’s time to rethink that relationship.  Last year, we created Opt Out October […]