Category: Business

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the order is allegedly limited to only apply to British users. That doesn’t make it any better. The demand uses a power […]

Lagos, 1 October 2025 — Tensions between Africa’s largest refinery and Nigeria’s oil and gas unions have intensified after the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) called for a nationwide strike in response to mass layoffs at the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote refinery. The dispute erupted when the refinery dismissed more than […]

London, 30 September 2025 — UK energy major BP (NYSE:BP) has approved a $5 billion investment in its Tiber-Guadalupe project in the US Gulf of Mexico, marking a significant expansion of its deepwater portfolio. The project, fully owned by BP, will establish a new floating production platform — the company’s seventh in the Gulf — […]

There is a lot of bad on the internet and it seems to only be getting worse. But one of the things the internet did well, and is worth preserving, is nontraditional paths for creativity, journalism, and criticism. As governments and major corporations throw up more barriers to expression—and more and more gatekeepers try to […]

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on Taliban leaders to immediately and fully restore Internet and telecommunications services. “As of yesterday, 1700 hours, we were informed that the telecommunications and fibreoptic connectivity in Afghanistan is going to be suspended until further notice,” said the top UN official in the country, Indrika Ratwatte, […]

Whether due to generative AI hallucinations or human sloppiness, the internet is increasingly rife with bogus news content—and you can count EFF among the victims.  WinBuzzer published a story June 26 with the headline, “Microsoft Is Getting Sued over Using Nearly 200,000 Pirated Books for AI Training,” containing this passage:  That quotation from EFF’s Corynne […]

This post is an adapted version of the article originally published at Silla Vacía  Heads of state and governments of the Americas will gather this December at the Tenth Summit of the Americas in the Dominican Republic to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the region’s nations. As part of the Summit of the Americas’ Process, […]

As the first copyright cases concerning AI reach appeals courts, EFF wants to protect important, beneficial uses of this technology—including AI for legal research. That’s why we weighed in on the long-running case of Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. This case raises at least two important issues: the use of (possibly) copyrighted material to train […]

London — Facing severe supply-chain disruption after a late-August cyberattack, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has secured a government-backed £1.5 billion loan guarantee to shore up its cash reserves and support its sprawling supplier network. The decision aims to mitigate risks to approximately 34,000 direct employees and 120,000 workers across component and logistics firms affected by […]