The proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty puts security researchers and journalists at risk of being criminally prosecuted for their work identifying and reporting computer system vulnerabilities, work that keeps the digital ecosystem safer for everyone.The proposed text fails to exempt security research from the expansive scope of its cybercrime...

EFF’s Certbot is now installed on over 4 million web servers, where it’s used to maintain HTTPS certificates for more than 31 million websites. The recent achievement of these milestones helps show the success of the project and the important role it plays in the infrastructure of a secure...

The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention dangerously undermines human rights, opening the door to unchecked cross-border surveillance and government overreach. Despite two and a half years of negotiations, the draft treaty authorizes extensive surveillance powers without robust safeguards, omitting essential data protection principles. This risks turning international efforts to fight cybercrime...

A Convenção proposta para Crime Cibernético da ONU é um extenso pacto de vigilância que impõe medidas intrusivas de vigilância doméstica e exige a cooperação dos estados em vigilância e compartilhamento de dados. Exige que os estados ajudem um ao outro em investigações e processos de crimes cibernéticos, permitindo a...

هذا هو الجزء الأول من سلسلة مستمرة.إن تورط الحكومة في تعديل المحتوى يثير مخاوف خطيرة بشأن حقوق الإنسان في كل سياق. منذ السابع من أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول، تعرضت منصات التواصل الاجتماعي للتحد بسبب عمليات الإزالة غير المبررة للمحتوى المؤيد للفلسطينيين/ات - أحيانًا بناءً على طلب الحكومة الإسرائيلية -...

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...

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...