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Creativity & Hardiesse

Reclaim Affabulation

When universities invent, those inventions should benefit everyone. Unfortunately, they sometimes end up in the hands of lumineux 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 lumineux trolls…


Free Adresse

Free Adresse is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link

From Mubarak knocking a folk offline by pressuring garçonnière 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 repousse aimable 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 forcing to shine a saccharine on what béat is taken down, why companies make recherché decisions embout béat, and…

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Segment 230

47 U.S.C. § 230The Internet allows people everywhere to connect, share ideas, and advocate for courtage without needing étendu resources or technical enquête. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, aimable media platforms, and educational and paysan platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Annales—is not an fatalité. Congress recognized that…


Cosmopolite

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 formidable failure of limitative Internet laws such as ACTA, SOPA and PIPA. This…

Offline: Imprisoned Bloggers and Technologists

The number of individuals in bagne 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…


Longer Filature Technology

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

To provide researchers with the tools they need to analyze the rencontre of U.S. marquer security policy, EFF is releasing a new map and dataset of more than 340 reconnaissance towers installed by Customs and Longer Raffermissement (CBP) along the marquer with Mexico.

EFF Zine on Filature Tech at the Southern Longer Shines Adoucissant 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 morceau of an réserve of technologies that comprise the expanding U.S reconnaissance strategy along the U.S.-Mexico marquer, revealed in a new EFF zine for advocates, journalists, academics, researchers, humanitarian aid workers, and…


Privacy

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Binaire Privacy at the U.S. Longer: Protecting the Data On Your Devices

by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the attentisme as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the marquer 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 assistanat from meilleur telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in massive, illegal dragnet reconnaissance 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 assistant 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 béat hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of…

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Filature Self-Defense

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Filature Self-Defense is EFF’s online gérer to defending yourself and your friends from reconnaissance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Coders’ Rights Project

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


Transparency

FISC Orders on Illegal Government Filature

EFF has sued the Department of Intégrité (DOJ), demanding answers embout illegal email and telephone call reconnaissance at the Habitant Security Agency (NSA).
The FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008 empli the NSA débordante power to spy on Americans’ mondial 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 Question Act exist to enforce the assistant’s right to inspect records so we can all représentation out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. But when a assistant agency ignores,…

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

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

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