Category: Technology

Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors' Care SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state program that is using AI to evaluate requests for medical care. “Tasking […]

Soils on display inside the Museum of Edible Earth's temporary exhibition at Somerset House in London. David Parry/PA Media Assignments, CC BY-SA Editor’s note: The UK’s Food Standards Authority and Health Security Agency both advise against eating clay, soil or earth. Links to their guidance are included in this article. When I ask people if […]

After years of tech industry experiments, smartglasses with embedded cameras and microphones have finally gone mainstream. And, disturbingly, sometimes it’s not just their owners who are watching what these devices record. In this week’s EFFector newsletter, we’re taking a closer look at the privacy implications of Meta Ray-Bans, and sharing all the latest in the fight for privacy […]

This is the first installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. A new generation of protesters, raised on social media and often fluent in the tools of digital dissent, has taken to the streets in recent months and years. In Bangladesh, Iran, Togo, France, Uganda, Nepal, […]

Ozer, With Decades of Experience in Technology and Civil Liberties Law, Will Succeed Cindy Cohn as Organization’s Leader SAN FRANCISCO – Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1.  Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech. She currently serves as […]

On November 14 1985, a letter announcing the discovery of a superstable species of carbon appeared in the science journal Nature. Even the letter’s title, C₆₀: Buckminsterfullerene, caused a stir among the journal’s scholarly readers. Molecules are usually named with sterile precision. This one was named after the American architect and futurist Richard Buckminster Fuller […]

winnond/Shutterstock Many people use drugs including paracetamol on a regular basis to treat headaches. But only part of each drug is taken into the bloodstream, while the rest is released into the wastewater through our urine when we go to the toilet. Paracetamol is an ingredient in the tablet. Most of the paracetamol is absorbed […]

Warning this article contains spoilers about the new Amazon Prime series Young Sherlock. I’ve read the whole Sherlock Holmes canon multiple times over. I love how Holmes uses analytical reasoning to unravel problems that look mysterious, but ultimately prove to have simple explanations. So I was excited when I saw Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock appear […]

The science fiction film Project Hail Mary brilliantly uses authentic science to underscore the human drama and narrative tension of the story. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, the story revolves around an effort to save the Earth – threatened by an alien organism that is consuming the Sun. By combining real science, compelling […]