Google is fighting back against a Brazilian court order to turn over data on all users who searched for specific terms, including the name of a well-known elected official and a busy downtown thoroughfare. (Brief in Portuguese / English*) While we applaud Google for challenging this digital dragnet...
Democracy means allowing everyday people to have their voices heard on public matters involving their communities. One of the goals of civic technology is to allow a more diverse group of people to have input on government affairs through the use of technology and the internet. Beth Noveck, author of...
Últimamente, en el Laboratorio de Amenazas de la EFF, nos hemos centrado mucho en el ecosistema de malware de Android y en proporcionar herramientas para su análisis. Hemos observado que han aparecido muchas muestras de malware para Android de la familia tor-hydra, que se hacen pasar por aplicaciones...
The First Amendment guarantees the right to speak your own involvement about court proceedings. Yet the Stored Communications Act currently allows the government to prevent electronic communications companies from notifying their users when they receive law enforcement orders for customer data. These gag orders can silence the companies for any...
Today, EFF joins a diverse coalition of civil society and tech companies to call on Congress to pass strong anti-monopoly rules for the Internet. We do this because it has long been EFF’s belief that users have the right to make their own choices—and the current state of Big Tech...
California has shown itself to be a national privacy leader. But there is still work to do. That’s why EFF is proud to sponsor twobills in this year’s legislature—both with the co-sponsorship of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse—that would strengthen privacy protections in the state. These bills are focused...
We’ve got an amazing opportunity for a litigator to join EFF’s legal team. If you have experience and interest in patent policy or litigation and want to represent the public interest in patent and copyright policy, we want to hear from you. EFF has always stood up for the...
Las principales empresas de Internet y telefonía móvil de Colombia siguieron manteniendo un alto nivel de transparencia sobre sus prácticas de privacidad, y continuaron implementando las mejores prácticas para proteger los datos de los clientes, la libre expresión y la seguridad en 2021. Sin embargo, se enfrentaron a los desafíos...
Want the latest news on your digital rights? Well, you're in luck! Version 34, issue 2 of our EFFector newsletter is out now. Catch up on the latest EFF news by reading our newsletter or listening to the new audio version below. This issue covers stories from our opposition of...
Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” may not be hardwired for security. Window Snyder, computer security expert and author, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they delve into the scary...
When a pipeline bursts, journalists might want to investigate whether the pipeline complied with federal regulations. When a toy is recalled, parents want to know whether its maker followed child safety rules. When a fire breaks out, homeowners and communities want to know whether the building complied with fire safety...
Ser capaz de determinar con precisión tu ubicación en cualquier lugar del planeta es un truco tecnológico útil. Pero cuando el rastreo no lo haces tú, sino que te lo hacen a ti -sin tu conocimiento o consentimiento- es una violación de tu privacidad. Por eso en la EFF llevamos...
La EFF está demandando al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional pidiendo transparencia en su programa de vigilancia de las redes sociales dirigido a los solicitantes de visado.
Primero llegaron los dispositivos de rastreo como Tiles y AirTags, comercializados como ingeniosos artilugios con Bluetooth del tamaño de un botón que pueden encontrar tu mochila perdida. Luego, después de que malos actores empezaran a utilizar los dispositivos para acechar o seguir a la gente, llegaron las aplicaciones de escaneo...
EFF client Erik Johnson, a Miami University computer engineering undergraduate, reached a settlement in the lawsuit we brought on his behalf against exam surveillance software maker Proctorio, in a victory for fair use of copyrighted material and people’s right to fight back against bad faith Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)...
