Category: Business

EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article. Americans’ First Amendment right to equal access to official government statements is violated by the Trump administration’s use of Truth Social’s preferential treatment scheme, which blocks people who won’t pay Trump’s company up to $100,000 a month early access to government news, EFF told a […]

The roadmap for recovery, and the potential for some $155 million in external investment, were among the outcomes of a three-day dialogue held this week in Khartoum, organized by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Sudan’s Ministry of Finance.  More than 300 participants from 20 countries – representing the Government, financial institutions, the national and […]

Key points G20 countries, responsible for around 80 per cent of global emissions, must lead the transition Climate finance should reach $1.3 trillion a year by 2035, with at least $300 billion mobilized annually for developing countries New initiatives announced around power grids and critical minerals, alongside a renewed push on early warning systems The […]

The attacks have involved ballistic and cruise missiles, drones and guided aerial bombs. Between 1 and 24 September, the Mission recorded at least 200 civilians killed and 1,234 injured – figures expected to rise as verification continues. Vegetable warehouse hit In the latest strike on Thursday, Russian forces hit a vegetable sorting facility on a […]

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’ve collected about you. The more […]

ISTANBUL / NEW YORK — Turkish Airlines has finalized a historic deal with Boeing for up to 150 737 MAX narrow-body aircraft, marking the Turkish flag carrier’s largest single-aisle order from the U.S. planemaker to date. The agreement—signed in New York in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Airlines Chairman Prof. Murat […]

EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. This is an important case—Levine v. FAA—challenging the ability of the government to punish […]

The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users.  The EU Kids Act aims to protect children from risks associated […]

Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide the mathematical guarantees that the companies who operate these messaging platforms cannot access the contents of messages. But there’s no […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order is an opportunity for a needed, thoughtful conversation about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Everyday Californians are feeling real anxiety about the risks of artificial intelligence, and as an organization that works to ensure technology empowers people, EFF welcomes this order as a way for the state of […]