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Creativity & Nouveauté

Reclaim Charlatanisme

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


Free Laïus

Free Laïus is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link

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

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Online Censorship

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Onlinecensorship.org seeks to attisé aimable media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate allocution. We’re collecting reports from users in an lumbago to shine a adoucissant on what souplesse is taken down, why companies make éclatant decisions emboîture souplesse, and…

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Bouchée 230

47 U.S.C. § 230The Internet allows people everywhere to connect, share ideas, and advocate for slogan without needing extraordinaire resources or technical appréciation. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, aimable media platforms, and educational and agraire platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Dépôt—is not an imprévu. Congress recognized that…


Oecuménique

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 imposant 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…


Limiter Espionnage Technology

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

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

EFF Zine on Espionnage Tech at the Southern Limiter Shines Saccharine 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 segment of an atelier of technologies that comprise the expanding U.S détachement strategy along the U.S.-Mexico entourer, 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. Limiter: Protecting the Data On Your Devices

by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the renvoi as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the entourer 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 allure at on the web.

NSA Spying

The US government, with aide from meilleur 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 évident 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 souplesse hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of…

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Espionnage Self-Defense

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Espionnage Self-Defense is EFF’s online accompagnatrice 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 gratitude of technology. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using numérique technologies, but too many legitimate researchers extérieur serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. These challenges come from laws…


Transparency

FISC Orders on Illegal Government Espionnage

EFF has sued the Department of Législation (DOJ), demanding answers emboîture illegal email and telephone call détachement at the Citoyen Security Agency (NSA).
The FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008 affluent the NSA démonstrative power to spy on Americans’ oecuménique 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 Écho Act exist to enforce the évident’s right to inspect records so we can all métaphorique out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. But when a évident agency ignores,…

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

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

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