As the world stays home to slow the spread of COVID-19, communities are rapidly transitioning to digital meeting spaces. This highlights a trend EFF has tracked for years: discussions in virtual spaces shape and reflect societal freedoms, and censorship online replicates repression offline. As most of us spend increasing amounts...

"Las vidas negras importan en las calles. Las vidas negras importan en Internet". Hace un año, la directora ejecutiva de la EFF, Cindy Cohn, compartió estas palabras en la declaración de la EFF sobre los asesinatos policiales de Breonna Taylor y George Floyd. Cindy habló en nombre de todos...

La Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), European Digital Rights (EDRi) y otras 40 organizaciones de la sociedad civil han instado a la Asamblea del Parlamento y al Comité de Ministros del Consejo de Europa a que les concedan más tiempo para proporcionar el análisis y la información que...

Amazon Ring has announced that it will change the way police can request footage from millions of doorbell cameras in communities across the country. Rather than the current system, in which police can send automatic bulk email requests to individual Ring users in an area of interest up to...

Dating is risky. Aside from the typical worries of possible rejection or lack of romantic chemistry, LGBTQIA people often have added safety considerations to keep in mind. Sometimes staying in the proverbial closet is a matter of personal security. Even if someone is open with their community about being LGBTQ+,...

Nuestros amigos de Access Now vuelven a organizar la conferencia RightsCon , en línea, durante la próxima semana, del 7 al 11 de junio. Este evento ofrece una oportunidad para que expertos en derechos humanos, tecnólogos, representantes del gobierno y activistas discutan sobre los desafíos urgentes en materia...

The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the federal computer crime law that’s been misused to prosecute beneficial and important online activity. The decision is a victory...