The latest update of Privacy Badger opts users out of ad tracking through Google’s “Privacy Sandbox.” Despite being billed as a privacy feature, Privacy Sandbox protects Google’s bottom line at the expense of your privacy. Privacy Sandbox might be less invasive than third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for your privacy.
The U.S. patent system is broken , particularly when it comes to software patents. At EFF, we’ve been fighting hard for changes that make the system more sensible. Last month, we got a big victory when we defeated a set of rules that would have mangled one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s most effective systems for kicking out bad patents. In 2012, recognizing the entrenched problem of a patent office that spewed out tens of thousands of...
We haven’t seen the end of invasive geofence warrants just yet, despite Google’s big announcement late last year that it was fundamentally changing how it collects location data. Today, EFF is filing an amicus brief in the Minnesota Supreme Court in State v. Contreras-Sanchez , involving a warrant that directed Google to turn over an entire month of location data in response to a geofence warrant. Our brief argues that warrant violates the Fourth Amendment and Minnesota’s state constitution. Geofence...
Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
ترتبط العدالة الإنتاجية والوصول الآمن للإجهاض، كالعديد من الجوانب الأخرى لإدارة رعايتنا الصحية، مرتبطة بشكل أساسي بحياتنا الرقمية. مع قرار دوبز ڤي جاكسون بإلغاء الحماية التي وفرها روي ڤي وايد للأشخاص الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية المتعلقة بالإجهاض، والتي كانت من المعلومات الحميدة قبلا، أصبحت اليوم دليلًا جنائيًا محتملًا. هذا التهديد الموسع للحقوق الرقمية خطير بشكل خاص على الأشخاص السود، السكان الأصليون/ات وذوي البشرة الملونة، وذوي الدخل المنخفض، والمهاجرين/ات، وأفراد مجتمع الميم – عين وغيرهم من المجتمعات المهمشة تقليديًا، ومقدمي الرعاية الصحية الذين يخدمون هذه المجتمعات.في هذه الصفحة، قمنا بتجميع أدلة خصوصية البيانات لأي شخص من المحتمل أن يتأثر: أولئك الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية والعيادات والمهنيين/ات الصحيين/ات المتعلقة بالإجهاض، وكذلك أولئك المشاركين/ات في حركات مناصرة الوصول إلى الإجهاض الآمن. ترتبط هذه الصفحة أيضًا بمساعي وتوصيات منظمة الجبهة الالكترونية إلى الهيئات التشريعية والشركات من أجل حماية أفضل للحقوق الرقمية للأشخاص الذين يحتاجون ويقدمون الرعاية الصحية الإنجابية.شاهد هذا الفيديو القصير حول الأمن الرقمي لحركة الوصول الآمن للإجهاض:
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 look at on the web.
This is part one of an ongoing series. Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context. Since October 7, social media platforms have been challenged for the unjustified takedowns of pro-Palestinian content—sometimes at the request of the Israeli government—and a simultaneous failure to...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media will receive the 2024 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. The EFF Awards recognize specific and substantial technical, social, economic,...
At a virtual briefing today, experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media outlined the human rights risks posed by the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty. They explained that the draft convention, instead of addressing core cybercrimes,...
BOSTON—A citizen journalists’ group represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal lawsuit today against a Massachusetts community-access television company for falsely convincing YouTube to take down video clips of city government meetings. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
We don’t know a lot more about when government jawboning social media companies—that is, attempting to pressure them to censor users’ speech— violates the First Amendment; but we do know that lawsuits based on such actions will be hard to win. In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme...
The latest update of Privacy Badger opts users out of ad tracking through Google’s “Privacy Sandbox.” Despite being billed as a privacy feature, Privacy Sandbox protects Google’s bottom line at the expense of your privacy. Privacy Sandbox might be less invasive than third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s good...
SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, July 24, at 11:00 am Eastern Time (8:00 am Pacific Time, 5:00 pm CET), experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media will brief reporters about the imminent adoption of a global surveillance treaty...
We haven’t seen the end of invasive geofence warrants just yet, despite Google’s big announcement late last year that it was fundamentally changing how it collects location data. Today, EFF is filing an amicus brief in the Minnesota Supreme Court in State v.Contreras-Sanchez, involving a warrant...
With the final negotiating session to approve the UN Cybercrime Treaty just days away, EFF and 21 international civil society organizations today urgently called on delegates from EU states and the European Commission to push back on the draft convention's many flaws, which include an excessively broad scope that...
The internet provides people space to build communities, shed light on injustices, and acquire vital knowledge that might not otherwise be available. And for LGBTQ+ individuals, digital spaces enable people that are not yet out to engage with their gender and sexual orientation.
