Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Facebook increases its tracking reach, users have little choice in matter
Facebook expanded its ever-growing advertising and tracking reach this week with new integration between the giant social network and Atlas, an advertising platform. The company now lets advertisers target you across all of your devices.
Dubious “internet safety software” distributed by hundreds of police agencies in U.S.
As official as it looks, ComputerCOP is actually just spyware, generally bought in bulk from a New York company that appears to do nothing but market this software to local government agencies. The way ComputerCOP works is neither safe nor secure.
U.S. court lets tech company off the hook for helping China detain, torture religious minorities
At what point does a company that intentionally builds tools that are specially designed for governmental human rights abuses become liable for the use of those tools for their intended (and known) purposes?
Where books are banned, the Internet can be a lifesaver
For individuals living in countries with high levels of censorship, the Internet has become a means for circumventing restrictions on book sales.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating free expression and the open flow of information
Banned Books Week is an annual event held in the last week of September, seeking to draw attention to books being banned or challenged in libraries and schools while promoting free and open access to knowledge.
Members of Freedom Online Coalition may be using FinFisher surveillance spyware
Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of the Freedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.
Bill introduced in U.S. Congress to allow people to own things, even if they contain software
On 19 September 2014, Representative Farenthold announced the introduction of the You Own Devices Act (YODA). If a computer program enables a device to operate, YODA would let you transfer ownership of a copy of that computer program along with the device.
UNHRC: Joint statement on privacy in the digital age
This week’s discussion of the report on surveillance by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council is a critical moment in the global understanding of the human rights challenges raised by unlawful and arbitrary surveillance.