Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (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.
Appeals Court upholds restriction on Twitter’s First Amendment right to publish national security transparency report
The court’s decision in Twitter v. Garland is seen as a disappointing, dangerous opinion that may well empower even broader uses of government power to censor speech by unwilling participants in government investigations.
The state of online free expression worldwide in 2022
“From internet shutdowns, crackdowns on expression and closed-door partnerships to attempts to restrict anonymity and end to end encryption, in many places, digital rights are under threat.”