The EFF-chaired Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) has had a big year! EFA is a loose network of local groups fighting for digital rights in the United States. With an ever-increasing roster of allies across the country, including significant growth on university campuses, EFA has also undergone a bit of a facelift. With the new branding…
Dear reader of our blog, surely by now you know the format: as we approach the end of the year, we look back on our work, count our wins, learn from our misses, and lay the groundwork strategies for a better future. It’s been an intense year in the fight for reproductive rights and its…
You ever hear the saying, “it takes a village”? I never really understood the saying until I started going to conferences, attending protests, and working on EFF’s membership team. You see, EFF’s mission thrives because we are powered by people like you. Just as we fight for your privacy and free expression through grassroots advocacy, we…
This year, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Surveillance-Self Defense (SSD) guide. How’d we celebrate? We kept at it—continuing to work on, refine, and update one of the longest running security and privacy guides on the internet. Technology changes quickly enough as it is, but so does the language we use to describe that…
This year, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Surveillance-Self Defense (SSD) guide. How’d we celebrate? We kept at it—continuing to work on, refine, and update one of the longest running security and privacy guides on the internet. Technology changes quickly enough as it is, but so does the language we use to describe that…
For a decade, the EU has served as the regulatory frontrunner for online services and new technology. Over the past two EU mandates (terms), the EU Commission brought down many regulations covering all sectors, but Big Tech has been the center of their focus. As the EU seeks to regulate the world’s largest tech companies,…
For a decade, the EU has served as the regulatory frontrunner for online services and new technology. Over the past two EU mandates (terms), the EU Commission brought down many regulations covering all sectors, but Big Tech has been the center of their focus. As the EU seeks to regulate the world’s largest tech companies,…
“EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.” It can be a tough job. A lot of our time is spent fighting bad things that are happening in the world or fixing things that have been broken for a long time. But this work is…
The rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build new things and do business–must be available to us online, as well. This core belief drives EFF’s work to fight the misuse of the patent system. Despite significant progress we’ve made over the last decade, patents, and in particular vague…
EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance is one of the most useful resources for those who want to understand the use of police surveillance by local law enforcement agencies across the United States. This year, as the police surveillance industry has shifted, expanded, and doubled down on its efforts to win new cop customers, our team has…