40 stories tagged eff, newest first.
474 points by hn_acker | 245 comments
EFF blog post urging Canadians to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which expands surveillance powers and metadata retention and is now before the Senate.
773 points by hn_acker | 377 comments
EFF blog post reporting that a court agreed with EFF that Utah's VPN law requires a technically impossible measure.
491 points by paimapi | 340 comments
An EFF Deeplinks article arguing that DraftKings uses AI to intensify the harms of behavioral advertising by targeting gamblers.
74 points by hn_acker | 15 comments
EFF article arguing the D.C. Circuit should vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents.
579 points by bilsbie | 473 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that the proposed KIDS Act would require age verification checks for people to get online.
428 points by hn_acker | 152 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that California's proposed 3D printer surveillance requirements can still be stopped and urging action against them.
430 points by hn_acker | 99 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that federal court records should be freely accessible to the public.
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664 points by the-mitr | 224 comments
MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.
1599 points by Brajeshwar | 695 comments
EFF guest post by a person whose Google account data was handed to ICE despite Google's promise to notify users of government data requests.
451 points by salkahfi | 389 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing against proposed California legislation that would restrict or censor 3D printing.
1267 points by gregsadetsky | 1071 comments
EFF Deeplinks blog post announcing that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is leaving the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
459 points by detaro | 144 comments
EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FAA's temporary flight restriction on drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE operations.
475 points by pabs3 | 131 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that publishers blocking the Internet Archive to stop AI scraping won't work and will instead erase the web's historical record.
523 points by hn_acker | 94 comments
EFF Deeplinks post reporting that the Tenth Circuit ruled the Fourth Amendment does not permit broad searches of protesters' devices and digital data.
408 points by pseudolus | 122 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.
1428 points by JKCalhoun | 941 comments
EFF Deeplinks article reporting that ICE is using a Palantir tool that draws on Medicaid data for immigration enforcement.
343 points by iamnothere | 296 comments
EFF press release announcing its Age Verification Hub, a resource opposing age verification laws, plus a Reddit AMA and livestreamed panel.
506 points by iamnothere | 70 comments
EFF article by Joe Mullin arguing that proposed USPTO rule changes would make it much harder to challenge bad patents.
561 points by gslin | 320 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.
768 points by doener | 307 comments
Homepage of Privacy Badger, a free browser extension from the EFF that blocks trackers to stop companies from spying on users online.
323 points by xoa | 151 comments
EFF Deeplinks article criticizing Amazon Ring for adding features that give police access, including live-streamed footage, to users' cameras.
457 points by exiguus | 245 comments
EFF Deeplinks article reporting that data brokers are selling travelers' flight information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE.
354 points by doener | 146 comments
EFF Deeplinks post by Hayley Tsukayama and Cory Doctorow announcing that Washington State has enacted right-to-repair legislation.
905 points by hn_acker | 262 comments
EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.
1512 points by leotravis10 | 320 comments
EFF memorial post by Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry honoring Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA mass spying on internet traffic.
578 points by hn_acker | 358 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that age verification bills have expanded from porn sites to products like skin cream, threatening privacy and enabling surveillance.
520 points by hn_acker | 261 comments
EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.
498 points by computerliker | 152 comments
EFF Deeplinks post by Andrew Crocker on a federal appeals court ruling that geofence warrants are categorically unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
342 points by walterbell | 92 comments
EFF Deeplinks post by Katitza Rodriguez outlining the organization's concerns about the UN draft Cybercrime Convention.
383 points by tambourine_man | 149 comments
EFF article from December 2021 criticizing Google Chrome's Manifest V3 extension platform as deceitful and harmful to privacy and security extensions.
533 points by gslin | 206 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.
592 points by judiisis | 346 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin criticizing the UK Parliament's passage of the Online Safety Bill as a threat to privacy, security, and encryption.
1322 points by mantiq | 970 comments
EFF Deeplinks post from August 2023 arguing that internet service providers should not police or block online speech, even when it is awful.
321 points by freedomben | 123 comments
EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.
523 points by skilled | 177 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Cory Doctorow and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews arguing computers should obey their users, critiquing remote attestation schemes like Google's Web Environment Integrity.
555 points by pwmtr | 352 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing the U.K.'s Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption for users worldwide.
357 points by gslin | 42 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the EFF will give Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan an award for providing access to scientific knowledge.
1189 points by prhrb | 186 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin (June 2023) warning that proposed changes threaten the public's ability to challenge low-quality patents.
950 points by panarky | 266 comments
EFF article reporting a federal judge's ruling that border searches of cell phones require a warrant.
1159 points by glitcher | 423 comments
EFF Deeplinks post from April 2023 warning that the reintroduced EARN IT bill would push online services to scan users' messages and photos, threatening encryption.