Category: Business

JOSLIN, Ill. — More than 2,500 workers in western Illinois are navigating total job loss following the abrupt August closure of Tyson Foods’ beef processing plant in Joslin. The sudden operational shutdown, which displaced a workforce largely made up of immigrant and refugee families, has transitioned from an emergency shutdown into a broader regional economic […]

When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and security. This didn’t just happen organically. Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took […]

In an extremely disappointing ruling, a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose, our case challenging the city of San Jose’s warrantless searches of its vast stores of automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California represent SIREN and CAIR California, two non-profits that serve San Jose residents, in […]

LONDON — J Sainsbury plc, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, and private equity-backed rival Wm Morrison Supermarkets held preliminary merger discussions earlier this year, according to financial disclosures. The exploratory talks, which took place between November 2025 and February 2026, focused on a prospective combination that would have created a retail giant commanding nearly a […]

TOKYO — SoftBank Group Corp. founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son is targeting up to $100 billion in new capital from sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors across the Gulf region to finance the Japanese conglomerate’s next phase of artificial intelligence investments. The capital-raising initiative aims to establish a dedicated investment vehicle focused on […]

“Only a fraction of investment by companies is now driven by traditional concerns such as low labour costs,” said senior UNCTAD official, Anastasia Nesvetailova. “Instead, value is moving into strategic sectors, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, clean energy, advanced computing, where the barriers to entry are high and rising.” Access issues The agency identified increasing export controls, […]

Following the devastation of the past three years, productive capacity in Gaza has been severely damaged, markets disrupted and the cost of basic goods has risen sharply. Their experiences reflect different parts of the same challenge: sustaining livelihoods that still exist, helping businesses restart and creating new opportunities where livelihoods have disappeared. Running a business […]

EFF strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the websites and social media accounts of a dozen organizations have been blocked by court order, while over 60 members and activists have been detained, their […]

EFF was thrilled to join organizers, advocates, and activists in the East Bay for the second annual Oakland Tech Week last week. We are grateful to our friends at MediaJustice and Upturn for inviting us co-present this all-day event, “Building Beyond Big Tech: Organizing Oakland’s Future”, on Sept. 30.  The event, hosted by the Kapor […]

In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information.  This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven purges of state voter rolls. We all deserve to live in a […]