Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral advertising that has made the internet into a giant surveillance tool would be banned, so people could share more...

This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Melda Gurakar.Researchers, journalists, and everyone else has a First Amendment right to criticize social media platforms and their content moderation practices without fear of being targeted by retaliatory lawsuits, a federal court recently ruled.The decision by a federal court in California to...

En una sentencia histórica para las libertades fundamentales en Colombia, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos concluyó que durante más de dos décadas el gobierno estatal acosó, vigiló y persiguió a miembros de un grupo de abogados que defiende a defensores de los derechos humanos, activistas y comunidades indígenas, poniendo...

Ola Bini, desarrollador informático absuelto el año pasado de cargos de ciberdelincuencia en un veredicto unánime en Ecuador, volvió a los tribunales la semana pasada en Quito cuando la Fiscalía, utilizando las mismas pruebas que ayudaron a exculparle, pidieron a un tribunal de apelación que anulara la decisión alegando...

On February 8, François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada would ban devices used in keyless car theft. The only device mentioned by name was the Flipper Zero—the multitool device that can be used to test, explore, and debug different wireless...

La EFF acoge con satisfacción la última y esperada opinión de asesoramiento normativo del Consejo de Supervisión de Meta, en el que se pide a la empresa que ponga fin a su prohibición general del uso del término "shaheed" en árabe para referirse a las personas incluidas en la...

Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though...