Government officials across the U.S. frequently promote the supposed, and often anecdotal, public safety benefits of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), but rarely do they examine how this very same technology poses risks to public safety that may outweigh the crimes they are attempting to address in the first...
Los legisladores de California están debatiendo un desacertado proyecto de ley que obligaría a los usuarios de Internet a mostrar su DNI para poder consultar contenidos sexualmente explícitos. La EFF ha enviado una carta a los legisladores californianos animándoles a oponerse al proyecto de ley 3080 de la...
En nuestra reciente comparación de Mastodon, Bluesky y Threads, detallamos algunas de las diferencias entre las redes sociales de microblogging, y una de las principales distinciones es el grado de control que tienes sobre lo que ves como usuario. Ya hemos explicado cómo poner en forma tu feed...
El éxodo de Twitter ha dado vida a una nueva forma de hacer redes sociales. En lugar de que un puñado de plataformas intente controlar tu vida en Internet, la gente está recuperando el control mediante la creación de enfoques más abiertos y empoderadores de las redes sociales. Puede que...
Did you know Disney’s Steamboat Willie entered the public domain this year? Since its 1928 debut, U.S. Congress has made multiple changes to copyright law, extending Disney’s ownership of this cultural icon for almost a century. A century.Creativity should spark more creativity.That’s not how intellectual property laws are...
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for everyone to understand and available for everyone to use in ways that augment us and advance our goals — not for corporations or...
El miembro de la Asamblea de California Phil Ting ha presentado la ley A.B. 1814, un proyecto de ley que supuestamente regularía el uso policial de la tecnología de reconocimiento facial. El problema es que haría muy poco para cambiar realmente el statu quo de cómo la policía...
This extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s top physician into a censor.
WASHINGTON, DC—Matthew Guariglia, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has been named a National Governing Institutions Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. This multi-month residential fellowship is designed to support scholars working on research that can impact policy making. Guariglia—who...
It’s time for the second installment of campfire tales from The Encryptids. Do you ever feel like tech companies still own the devices you’ve paid for? Monsieur Jackalope tells us why interoperability plays a key role in giving you freedom in tech.
This post was written by EFF legal intern Danya Hajjaji.Law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant to search data contained in abandoned cell phones, EFF and others explained in a friend-of-the-court brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.The case, United States v. Hunt, involves law enforcement’s...
The Electronic Frontier Alliance is proud to have such a diverse membership, and is especially proud to ally with Encode Justice chapters. Encode Justice is a community that includes over 1,000 high school and college students across over 40 U.S. states and 30 countries. Organized into chapters, these...
Dozens of policing agencies are currently using cell-site simulators (CSS) by Jacobs Technology and its Engineering Integration Group (EIG), according to newly-available documents on how that company provides CSS capabilities to local law enforcement. A proposal document from Jacobs Technology, provided to the Massachusetts State Police (MSP)...
