Europe’s Digital Services Act: on a Collision Course With Human Rights
By Cory Doctorow Last year, the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious and thoughtful project to rein in the power of Big…
By Cory Doctorow Last year, the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious and thoughtful project to rein in the power of Big…
By Tyler Durden Score one for freedom and privacy (for now) as Democratic lawmakers have scrapped their plans for a dragnet-style IRS surveillance across Americans’…
By Adam Schwartz Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. Our faces are unique identifiers, and…
By B.N. Frank American opposition to “Smart Cities” and all the risks associated with them has been continuous (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Nevertheless, proponents…
By Matthew Guariglia Technology rarely invents new societal problems. Instead, it digitizes them, supersizes them, and allows them to balloon and duplicate at the speed…
By Joe Mullin At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. It’s critical for our privacy and security online. That’s why we litigate in…
By Andrew Crocker The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide…
By Allison Fox The airline is implementing a “digital identity experience” at its hub in Atlanta, offering customers with TSA PreCheck and a Delta SkyMiles number the chance to pass…
By Tyler Durden Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to release a reworked version of a Biden administration proposal to surveil US bank accounts – after…
By Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick The UK government has promised that its new app, expected to launch in late 2022, will be a one-stop…
By Matt Agorist Lake County, FL — Wendell Doyle Goney, 51, a “Florida man,” is facing 30 years behind bars after he was charged this…
By Kenny Gutierrez, EFF Bridge Fellow The City Council of Concord, California, is tone deaf to community concerns regarding a proposed police Unmanned Aerial Surveillance…
By Chao Liu and Sophia Cope We do not lose our constitutional rights at the border. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however, believes…
By The Last American Vagabond Joining Ryan Cristián today is Ramiro Romani, co-creator of the Above Phone. This is a device (much more than just…