Globally, an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance is impacting individuals and communities both online and off. The digital rights community has observed an uptick in censorship of LGBTQ+ websites as well as troubling attempts by several countries to pass explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ bills restricting freedom of expression and privacy—bills that also fuel...

EFF and more than 24 civil society organizations have written to tech companies including Apple, Google, Meta, Twitter, and Spotify urging them to oppose the Hong Kong government’s application for an injunction to ban broadcasting and distribution of the 2019 protest song, “Glory to Hong Kong.” The injunction,...

A year ago this Saturday, the Supreme Court's Dobbs abortion ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. This decision deprived millions of people of a fundamental right. As we wrote then, it also underscored the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. In the past year, EFF staff have...

One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then either block or flag...

En una lucha entre las grandes empresas tecnológicas y los gigantes proveedores de internet, puede ser muy tentador no preocuparse por quién gana y quién pierde. Sin embargo, en el caso de las propuestas de "reparto justo" de los ISP, la victoria de estos últimos supondría socavar uno de los...

Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which will require the company to pay $5.8 million over its inability to keep private footage and audio collected from users’ homes. This action stems from a collection of privacy violations that occurred...

Esta es la quinta parte de una serie de cinco partes. La primera parte, la introducción, está aquí. La segunda parte, sobre la disolución de empresas de tecnología publicitaria, está aquí. La tercera parte, sobre la prohibición de los anuncios de vigilancia, está aquí. La cuarta parte,...