Electronic Frontier Foundation As debate continues in the U.S. and Europe over how to regulate social media, a number of countries—such as India and Turkey—have imposed stringent rules that threaten free speech, while others, such …
Proposed New Internet Law in Mauritius Raises Serious Human Rights Concerns Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Over the last few months the HTTPS Everywhere project has been deciding what to do with the new landscape of HTTPS in major browsers. Encrypted web traffic has increased in the last …
HTTPS Everywhere Now Uses DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we …
553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation At noon on January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and he and his staff took over the business of running …
EFF’s Top Recommendations for the Biden Administration Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Should an obviously fake Facebook post—one made as political satire—end with a lawsuit and a bill to pay for a police response to the post? Of course not, and that’s why EFF …
Political Satire Is Protected Speech – Even If You Don’t Get the Joke Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation One of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has …
Electronic Frontier Foundation Facebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of small businesses. This is a laughable attempt from Facebook to distract you from its poor track record of anticompetitive behavior …
Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Every three years, the public has an opportunity to chip away at the harm inflicted by an offshoot of copyright law that doesn’t respect traditional safeguards such as fair use. This law, …
Protecting Your Rights to Understand and Innovate on the Tech in Your Life Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Last week, users of macOS noticed that attempting to open non-Apple applications while connected to the Internet resulted in long delays, if the applications opened at all. The interruptions were caused by …
macOS Leaks Application Usage, Forces Apple to Make Hard Decisions Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation Here at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we have a guiding motto: “I Fight For the Users.” (We even put it on t-shirts from time to time!) We didn’t pick that one by …
Electronic Frontier Foundation Some of the most important work we do at EFF is build technologies to protect users’ privacy and security, and give developers tools to make the entire Internet ecosystem more safe and …
Cryptographer and Entrepreneur Jon Callas Joins EFF as Technology Projects Director Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation For years, free speech and press freedoms have been under attack in Turkey. The country has the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer of journalists and has in recent years been cracking down …
Turkey’s New Internet Law Is the Worst Version of Germany’s NetzDG Yet Read More »