The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants more than 300,000 patents each year. Some of those patent grants represent genuine new inventions, but many of them don’t. On average, patent examiners have about 18 hours to spend on each application. That’s not enough time to get it right....
EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow will appear on a panel at this year's Internet Governance Forum: "Taming big tech: Protection freedom of expression through the unbundling of services, open markets, competition and user empowerment."
EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow appears on the panel "Data & surveillance, AI, Giants-as-States, Civil Society & Democracy: Can the Monster be Tamed?" at CRA's Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times summit in Brussels.
EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow presents a talk called "A sustainable and interoperable internet" at the NGI Policy Summit, Redistribute the Internet.
In this guest post by the Coalition Against Stalkerware marking its second anniversary, the international alliance takes a look back on its achievements while seeing a lot of challenges ahead.Two years ago, in November 2019, the Coalition Against Stalkerware was founded by 10 organizations. Today, there are more than...
On Thursday December 9th at 2 PM Pacific, join How to Fix the Internet co-hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they catch up with cybersecurity expert Tarah Wheeler. They will continue the conversation that started on the podcast exploring how we can incentivize computer security and fix...
Please join RT4MN for a panel discussion on Drones and Aerial Surveillance. We will be exploring the history of areal surveillance, the proliferation of drones used by local law enforcement, and the increasing militarization of the sky.
A UN human rights committee examining the status of civil and political rights in Germany took aim at the country’s Network Enforcement Act, or NetzDG, criticizing the hate speech law in a recent report for enlisting social media companies to carry out government censorship, with no judicial oversight of content...
Indonesia’s Constitutional Court dealt another blow to the free expression and online privacy rights of the country’s 191 million internet users, ruling that the government can lawfully block internet access during periods of social unrest. The October decision is the latest chapter in Indonesia’s crackdown on tech platforms,...
James Vasile believes that all tech should be customizable by the people who use it--because as soon as things are proprietary, you lose control over the world around you. Hear more in the latest episode of EFF's podcast, "How to Fix the Internet."
Update: On December 15, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved important key changes to the EU Commission’s Digital Markets Act Proposal, including a prohibition on dark patterns and ambitious rules to help ensure interoperability of messaging and social media network services. The Parliament also added more options for users to...
When Google introduced Manifest V3 in 2019, web extension developers were alarmed at the amount of functionality that would be taken away for features they provide users. Especially features like blocking trackers and providing secure connections. This new iteration of Google Chrome’s web extensions interface still has flaws that might...
The ACLU of Northern California has concluded a year-long Freedom of Information campaign by uncovering massive spying on Black Lives Matter protests from the air. The California Highway Patrol directed aerial surveillance, mostly done by helicopters, over protests in Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, Placerville, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, and...
Want the latest news on your digital rights? Then you’ve come to the right place! Version 33, issue 7 of EFFector, our monthly-ish newsletter, is out now! Catch up on the latest EFF news, from how Apple is listening and retracting some of its phone-scanning features to how Congress can...
