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With the holiday season upon us, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest digital rights news. Lucky for you, EFF’s EFFector newsletter has you covered with the latest happenings, from a breakdown of our latest Privacy Badger update, an investigation into Android TV set-top boxes infected with malware, and a report on […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Supreme Court today to review and reverse a dangerous ruling allowing the Justice Department to censor X’s ability to publish information about government requests for the platform’s private user data, a decision that undermines at least a hundred years of First Amendment case law on when the […]

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will debate a bill this week that would dramatically limit the public’s right to challenge bad granted patents. The PREVAIL Act, S. 2220 would bar most people from petitioning the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to revoke patents that never should have been granted in the first […]

There’s been lots of news and updates recently in the realm of digital rights, from EFF’s recent investigation (and quiz!) into the student monitoring tool GoGuardian, to a recent victory in California regarding law enforcement’s sharing of ALPR data outside of the state. It can feel overwhelming to stay up to date, but we’ve got […]

“This first World Sustainable Transport Day reminds us that the road to a better future depends on cleaner and greener transportation systems,” Antonio Guterres explained, spotlighting the relationship between transportation and global sustainability. Fuelling climate chaos “Transportation represents the world’s circulatory system, delivering people and goods across countries and around the world, creating jobs, and supporting […]

EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case that has serious implications for people’s First Amendment rights to engage in cross-border journalism and advocacy. In 2019, the local San Diego affiliate for NBC News broke a shocking story: components of the federal government were conducting […]

With Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) set to expire at the end of the year, Congress is considering whether to reauthorize the law and if so, whether to make any necessary amendments to the invasive surveillance authority.  While Section 702 was first sold as a tool necessary to stop foreign terrorists, […]

The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from enforcing modern security requirements […]

EFF has signed on to the following letter alongside 33 other organizations in support of a submission to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), first published here by English PEN. To learn more about Alaa’s case, visit Offline. 23 November 2023 Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, […]

Despite an Ecuadorian court’s unanimous acquittal of security expert Ola Bini in January this year due to complete lack of evidence, Ecuador’s attorney general’s office has moved to appeal the decision, perpetuating several years of unjust attacks on Bini’s rights.  In the context of the Internet Governance Forum 2023 (IGF) held in Japan, the Observation […]