Category: Business

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver opening remarks at the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (“Americas Partnership”) ministerial plenary meeting on July 17, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. ET at the Department of State. The plenary meeting will include foreign ministers from the 12 Americas Partnership countries – the United States, Barbados, Canada, Chile, […]

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology.   Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed suit against the Detroit Police Department after officers […]

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s top physician into a censor. This claim is particularly alarming given the far more complex and nuanced picture that studies have drawn about how […]

Minister Dung, it is a pleasure to welcome you to Washington for this first Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Economic Dialogue between the United States and Vietnam. I’m also glad to be able to repay your hospitality for hosting me in Hanoi earlier this year. I’m joined today by Ambassador Marc Knapper, as well as leadership from […]

The United States has now, for the first time in the more than 100-year history of the Espionage Act, obtained an Espionage Act conviction for basic journalistic acts. Here, Assange’s Criminal Information is for obtaining newsworthy information from a source, communicating it to the public, and expressing an openness to receiving more highly newsworthy information. […]

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites that they visit.  This threat is not hypothetical. This morning, 404 […]

The end of June concluded LGBTQ+ Pride month, yet the risks LGBTQ+ people face persist every month of the year. This year, LGBTQ+ Pride took place at a time of anti-LGBTQ+ violence, harassment and vandalism and back in May, US officials had warned that LGBTQ+ events around the world might be targeted during Pride Month. […]

The United States congratulates the Republic of Korea (ROK) on assuming the chair of the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) after receiving unanimous support from all MSP partners. The ROK will hold the chair of the MSP for one year starting on July 1. The ROK has demonstrated tremendous leadership on critical minerals supply chain issues […]

Instead of relaxing for the summer, EFF is in first gear defending your rights online! Catch up on what we’re doing with the latest issue of our EFFector newsletter. This time we’re sharing updates regarding California law enforcement illegally sharing drivers’ location data out-of-state, the heavy burden Congress has to meet to justify a TikTok […]

Legal intern Danya Hajjaji was the lead author of this post. The Sixth Circuit must carefully apply a new “state action” test from the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that public officials who use social media to speak for the government do not have free rein to infringe critics’ First Amendment rights, EFF and the […]