Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
USA: To address online harms, we must consider privacy first
In this report, EFF explores a new approach to tackling online harms leaving behind strategies based on ill-conceived bills and censorship-driven solutions.
Platforms must stop unjustified takedowns of Palestinian posts
“Unjustified takedowns during crises like the war in Gaza deprive people of their right to freedom of expression and can exacerbate humanitarian suffering” – EFF
Adtech surveillance and government surveillance are often the same surveillance
Police can use these surveillance tools to see the devices of people who attended a protest, follow them home, and target them for more surveillance, harassment, and retribution.
UK’s Online Safety Bill undermines privacy, security and freedom of Internet users
The UK’s recently-passed Online Safety Bill (OSB) promises to make the UK “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down Internet for British users.
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty looks more like a global surveillance pact
“Broadly scoped, ambiguous, and nonspecific international cooperation measures with few conditions and safeguards are simply a recipe for disaster that can put basic privacy and free expression rights at risk” – EFF
UN Cybercrime Convention negotiations enter final phase with troubling surveillance powers still on the table
The final text will result in the rewriting of criminal and surveillance laws around the world, affecting millions of people. That’s why EFF and their international allies have been fighting to ensure the draft convention includes robust human rights protections.
Saving the news from Big Tech
“Something must be done about the way that tech abuses the press—but that something shouldn’t depend on tech’s eternal dominance. It shouldn’t make the press beholden to a scandal-haunted tech sector that desperately needs the scrutiny of investigative journalists” – EFF
United States: Government hasn’t justified a TikTok ban
Before taking such a drastic step to restrict TikTok, the government must come forward with specific evidence showing, at the very least, a real problem and a narrowly tailored solution.