It’s the weekend. You decide you want to do something fun with your family—maybe go to a local festival or park. So, you start searching on your favorite social media app to see what other people are doing. Soon after, you get ads on other platforms about the activities you...
The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention, scheduled for a critical concluding session from 29 July to August 9th, poses a significant threat to global human rights unless major changes are made. Despite two and a half years of intense discussions and seven negotiation sessions, states remain deeply divided...
The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the communities colleges...
As the current leadership of the EU Council enters its final weeks, it is debating a dangerous proposal that could lead to scanning the private files of billions of people. EFF strongly opposes this proposal, put forward by the Belgian Presidency at the EU Council, which is part...
The Canadian House of Commons is currently considering Bill C-26, which would make sweeping amendments to the country’s Telecommunications Act that would expand its Minister of Industry’s power over telecommunication service providers. It’s designed to accomplish a laudable and challenging goal: ensure that government and industry partners efficiently and...
No single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire internet. That's why EFF celebrates the news that Australia's eSafety Commissioner is dropping its legal effort to have content on X taken down across the globe. This development comes just days after EFF and FIRE were granted official...
You accelerated multiple times on your way to Yosemite for the weekend. You braked when driving to a doctor appointment. If your car has internet capabilities, GPS tracking or OnStar, your car knows your driving history.And now we know: your car insurance carrier might know it, too.In a recent New...
Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has enabled and advanced this enormously, letting us access and manipulate information and images in ways that would’ve been unimaginable just a few decades...
Secrecy in patent litigation is an enduring problem, and EFF has repeatedly intervened in lawsuits involving patent claims to uphold the public’s right to access court records. And in this case, the secrecy issues are heightened by the parties and the court believing that they can jointly agree to keep...
With this decision, Alaska joins California, Hawaii, and Vermont in finding that warrantless aerial surveillance violates their state’s constitutional prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure. Other courts should follow suit.
Curious about the latest digital rights news? Well, you're in luck! In our latest newsletter we cover topics ranging from: lawmakers planning to sunset the most important law to free expression online, Section 230; our brief regarding data sharing of electronic ankle monitoring devices; and the simple proposition...
If you listen to any podcast long enough, you will almost certainly hear an advertisement for a Virtual Private Network (VPN). These advertisements usually assert that a VPN is the only tool you need to stop cyber criminals, malware, government surveillance, and online tracking. But these advertisements vastly oversell the...
كجزء من استشارة مجلس الرقابة بشأن تعديل المنشورات على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي التي تتضمن إشارة إلى عبارة "من النهر إلى البحر، فلسطين ستكون حرة"، قدمت مؤسسة الجبهة الإلكترونية مؤخرًا تعليقات تسلط الضوء على ضرورة اتخاذ قرارات التعديل على أساس فردي لأن العبارة لها استخدام تاريخي مهم لا ينطوي على كراهية أو انتهاك لمعايير مجتمع ميتا.""من النهر إلى البحر، فلسطين ستكون حرة" عبارة أو شعار سياسي تاريخي يشير جغرافيًا إلى المنطقة الواقعة بين نهر الأردن والبحر الأبيض المتوسط، وهي المنطقة التي تشمل إسرائيل والضفة الغربية وغزة. واليوم، لا يزال معنى الشعار بالنسبة للعديد من الناس هو الحرية والتحرير والتضامن ضد تفتيت الفلسطينيين/ات على الأرض التي تمارس الدولة الإسرائيلية سيادتها عليها حاليًا - من غزة إلى الضفة الغربية وداخل الدولة الإسرائيلية.ولكن بالنسبة للآخرين/ الأخريات، فإن العبارة مثيرة للجدل وتشكل دعمًا للتطرف والإرهاب. حماس - وهي جماعة مصنفة كمنظمة إرهابية من قبل حكومات مثل الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الأوروبي - تبنت العبارة في ميثاقها لعام 2017، مما أدى إلى الادعاء بأن العبارة هي مجرد دعوة لإبادة إسرائيل. ومنذ الهجوم المميت الذي شنته حماس على إسرائيل في 7 أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول 2023، زعم المعارضون/ات أن العبارة هي شكل من أشكال التعبير البغيض الذي يستهدف اليهود في الغرب.لكن المحاكم الدولية اعترفت بأنه على الرغم من استقطاب حماس لها، لا يزال الكثيرون/ات يستخدمون العبارة كنداء حاشد صريح للتحرير والحرية في معناها على المستوى المادي والرمزي. إن الرقابة على مثل هذه العبارة بسبب "المعنى الخفي" المتصور للتحريض على الكراهية والتطرف يشكل انتهاكًا لحرية التعبير في مثل هذه المواقف.تتحمل ميتا مسؤولية دعم حرية التعبير للأشخاص الذين/ اللواتي يستخدمون العبارة بمعناها المحمي، خاصة عندما يتعرض هؤلاء المتحدثون/ات للاضطهاد والتهميش.اقرأ/ي مقالنا الكامل هنا.
In an age of resurgent anti-monopoly activism, small online communities, either standing on their own, or joined in loose “federations,” are the best chance we have to escape Big Tech’s relentless surveillance and clumsy, unaccountable control.
A new statement about strengthening internet governance processes emerged from the NETMundial +10 meeting in Brazil last month, strongly reaffirming the value of and need for a multistakeholder approach involving full and balanced participation of all parties affected by the internet—from users, governments, and private companies to civil society, technologists,...
