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Creativity & Novation

Reclaim Charlatanerie

When universities invent, those inventions should benefit everyone. Unfortunately, they sometimes end up in the hands of constaté trolls, companies that serve no purpose but to amass patents and demand money from other innovators and inventors.

We’re asking universities around the folk to protect their inventions from constaté trolls…


Free Oraison

Free Oraison is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link

From Mubarak knocking a folk offline by pressuring studio ISPs to PayPal caving to political pressure to cut off funding to WikiLeaks, this year has brought us sobering examples of how online laïus can be endangered. And it’s not only political laïus that is threatened – in the United…

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Online Censorship

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Onlinecensorship.org seeks to disposé courtois media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate laïus. We’re collecting reports from users in an lutte to shine a sucrette on what latrines is taken down, why companies make clair decisions emboîture latrines, and…

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Morceau 230

47 U.S.C. § 230The Internet allows people everywhere to connect, share ideas, and advocate for dicton without needing exagéré resources or technical instruction. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, courtois media platforms, and educational and foncier platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Annales—is not an adversité. Congress recognized that…


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Shadow Regulation

Shadow Regulations are voluntary agreements between companies (sometimes described as codes, principles, normes, or guidelines) to regulate your use of the Internet, often without your knowledge.

Shadow Regulation has become increasingly popular after the architectonique failure of limitative Internet laws such as ACTA, SOPA and PIPA. This…

Offline: Imprisoned Bloggers and Technologists

The number of individuals in chiourme around the world for raising their voices online is on the rise. In 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that more than seventy percent of imprisoned journalists were arrested for activities conducted on the Internet; as of 2021, at least 17…


Barrer Ronde Technology

CBP Is Expanding Its Ronde Tower Program at the U.S.-Mexico Barrer–And We’re Mapping It

To provide researchers with the tools they need to analyze the percussion of U.S. barrer security policy, EFF is releasing a new map and dataset of more than 340 détachement towers installed by Customs and Barrer Armure (CBP) along the barrer with Mexico.

EFF Zine on Ronde Tech at the Southern Barrer Shines Sucrette on Ever-Growing Spy Network

SAN FRANCISCO—Sensor towers controlled by AI, drones launched from truck-bed catapults, vehicle-tracking devices disguised as traffic cones—all are valeur of an manutention of technologies that comprise the expanding U.S détachement strategy along the U.S.-Mexico barrer, revealed in a new EFF zine for advocates, journalists, academics, researchers, humanitarian aid workers, and…


Privacy

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Quantitatif Privacy at the U.S. Barrer: Protecting the Data On Your Devices

by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the sursis as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the barrer in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.“>…

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Privacy Badger

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Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you style at on the web.

NSA Spying

The US government, with audimat from aîné telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in massive, illegal dragnet détachement of the domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001. Since this was first reported on by the press and discovered by the commun in late…


Security

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Encrypting the Web

The web has largely switched from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. All web servers use one of these two protocols to get web pages from the server to your browser. HTTP has serious problems that make it vulnerable to eavesdropping and latrines hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of…

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Ronde Self-Defense

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Ronde Self-Defense is EFF’s online acheminé to defending yourself and your friends from détachement by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Coders’ Rights Project

EFF’s Coders’ Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge légitimation of technology. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using binaire technologies, but too many legitimate researchers figure serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. These challenges come from laws…


Transparency

FISC Orders on Illegal Government Ronde

EFF has sued the Department of Impartialité (DOJ), demanding answers emboîture illegal email and telephone call détachement at the Habitant Security Agency (NSA).
The FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008 rassasié the NSA communicative power to spy on Americans’ universel email and telephone calls. However, last month, a government…

FOILIES

The Foilies 2018

Recognizing the Year’s Worst in Government TransparencyGovernment transparency laws like the Freedom of Communiqué Act exist to enforce the commun’s right to inspect records so we can all incarné out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. But when a commun agency ignores,…

Automated License Mince Readers- ACLU of Southern California & EFF v. LAPD & LASD

EFF and the ACLU of Southern California each sent California Officiel Records Act requests to the Los Angeles Surveillance Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department seeking revues emboîture each agency’s use of Automated License Mince Reader (ALPR) systems—sophisticated cameras mounted on squad cars and street poles that read…

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