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This is part one of an ongoing series.  Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context. Since October 7, social media platforms have been challenged for the unjustified takedowns of pro-Palestinian content—sometimes at the request of the Israeli government—and a simultaneous failure to remove hate speech towards Palestinians. More specifically, […]

On July 17,2024, Secretary Blinken announced at the America’s Partnership for Economic Prosperity Ministerial the U.S. Department of State and Mexico’s Secretariat of Economy would host the Americas Partnership Semiconductor Symposium:  Expanding the Supplier Ecosystem on September 5-6, 2024, in Mexico City.  The Symposium will focus on expanding and diversifying the semiconductor assembly, testing, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media will receive the 2024 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people.   The EFF Awards recognize specific and substantial technical, social, economic, or cultural contributions in diverse […]

At a virtual briefing today, experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media outlined the human rights risks posed by the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty. They explained that the draft convention, instead of addressing core cybercrimes, is an extensive surveillance treaty […]

“The bottom line is that we are still far off-track towards the goal of ridding the world of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030,” said Maximo Torero, Chief Economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in reference to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and specifically SDG 2: Zero Hunger. Mr. Torero noted […]

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) applauds the Government of Vietnam’s approval on July 3 of the “Decree on the Direct Power Purchase Agreement (DPPA),” a significant milestone towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This policy, championed by both domestic and international private sector companies and investors, establishes clear mechanisms for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, July 24, at 11:00 am Eastern Time (8:00 am Pacific Time, 5:00 pm CET), experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media will brief reporters about the imminent adoption of a global surveillance treaty that threatens human rights around […]

We don’t know a lot more about when government jawboning social media companies—that is, attempting to pressure them to censor users’ speech— violates the First Amendment; but we do know that lawsuits based on such actions will be hard to win. In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court did not answer the important First […]

The latest update of Privacy Badger opts users out of ad tracking through Google’s “Privacy Sandbox.”  Privacy Sandbox is Google’s way of letting advertisers keep targeting ads based on your online behavior, even after Chrome completes its long overdue phaseout of third-party cookies. Third-party cookies were once the most common form of online tracking technology, […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States of America and the European Commission. On July 18, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez and Deputy Director-General for Trade Leopoldo Rubinacci hosted the first high-level MSP Forum event. Ministers and high-level […]