Earlier this week, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Demand Progress sent a letter to the Senate expressing our concerns about H.R. 3962, The Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2021 or SECURE Notarization Act. This bill would require states to recognize...
In a new round of talks this week to formulate a UN Cybercrime Treaty, EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation provisions and safeguards to ensure that states respect human rights when responding to legal assistance requests.EFF is among a group of...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will soon rule on Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones, which are capable of flying while its operator (pilot) is far away. While these types of drones might offer benefits to society—think of deliveries, infrastructure inspection, and precision agriculture—they also pose serious threats to...
The scourge of stalkerware—malicious apps used by perpetrators of domestic violence to secretly spy on their victims—is not going unchallenged or unaddressed.Antivirus makers are increasingly adding stalkerware to the list of apps their products detect on devices; victim support groups help people figure out whether their devices are...
Un número cada vez mayor de estados ha prohibido a los jóvenes transgénero obtener atención médica para la afirmación de género. Con lo cual, tanto estos jóvenes como sus familias, deben viajar fuera del estado para obtener la atención médica necesaria. Los estados que visitan son santuarios de atención...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a half century of precedent supporting the constitutional right to abortion access, numerous states have moved towards making abortion illegal and restricting additional reproductive health services. In South Carolina, Republican state Senators Richard Cash, Rex F. Rice and Daniel B. Verdin III introduced ...
Online proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are biased and ineffective. This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”—was correctly deemed unconstitutional by a...
Originada en las calles de Chicago, la música drill es una producción creativa de los jóvenes negros del centro de la ciudad. Se define por las experiencias y perspectivas de la vida real, y aunque los raperos de drill suelen documentar en sus letras y vídeos musicales los conflictos relacionados...
Even in the face of strong public protest over a set of proposed revisions to criminal laws that infringe Indonesians’ free expression rights, the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights last month sent to the Parliament a new draft of the Criminal Code (CC) that threatens to further...
More than seven years after Congress mandated it and EFF sued to pry them loose, the government released seven heavily-redacted but previously classified rulings from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that shed new light on how the secret court interprets key provisions of the laws that authorize mass surveillance....
Right now, Americans live in a country where the companies that control our access to the internet face little-to-no oversight. In most states, these companies can throttle your service—or that of, say, a fire department fighting the largest wildfire in state history. They can block a service they don’t...
Los mensajes privados, los archivos y las fotos de los usuarios de Internet son examinados cada vez más por las empresas tecnológicas, que cotejan los datos con las bases de datos gubernamentales. Aunque no se trata de una práctica nueva, se está diciendo al público que este escaneo masivo debe...
Hoy en día, la gran mayoría de los sitios web y correos electrónicos que usted encuentra contienen alguna forma de seguimiento. Las cookies de terceros permiten a los anunciantes seguirle por la web; los píxeles de seguimiento de los correos electrónicos confirman si los ha abierto; los enlaces de seguimiento...
A recently introduced patent bill would authorize patents on abstract ideas just for including computer jargon, and would even legalize the patenting of human genes. EFF wants you to take action against this bill.
