Nominations are now open for the 2022 EFF Awards! The nomination window will be open until August 2nd at 2:00 PM Pacific time. You could nominate the next winner today!For thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented awards to key leaders in the fight for freedom...
EFF is proud to present EFF Tech Trivia @ DEF CON 30! Live on Friday, August 12, 17:00 to 19:00 Pacific, featuring Cooper the Cybertiger as Quizmaster and Kurt Opsahl as MC.EFF's team of technology experts have crafted challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial aspects of digital security,...
In a letter to the Indian Government, EFF and partner digital rights organizations from around the world called on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to withdraw the so-called traceability requirement under its Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (2021 IT Rules). The Rules compel private end-to-end...
Los dispositivos Ring de Amazon no son sólo cámaras de seguridad personal. También son cámaras policiales, lo quieras o no. La empresa admite ahora que hay casos de "emergencia" en los que la policía puede acceder sin orden judicial a los dispositivos personales Ring sin el permiso del propietario.
In the past couple of decades, EFF has argued that when it comes to suspicionless and warrantless searches at the border, electronic devices like cell phones are not the same as a piece of luggage. Although certain searches at the border are permitted without a warrant, the search of a...
Big Tech companies have the resources and the platform to make a real difference in the world. At this event, we will encourage them to act with Ethics. Join us as we learn from Hiroshima's example and work towards a more peaceful future.
A recent District Court decision in In re DMCA 512(h) Subpoena to Twitter, Inc. is a great win for free speech. The Court firmly rejected the argument that copyright law creates a shortcut around the First Amendment’s protections for anonymous critics. In the case, a company tried to...
El Congreso debe aprobar la Enmienda Jacobs-Davidson a la Ley de Autorización de la Defensa Nacional (NDAA), el proyecto de ley de financiación anual de la seguridad nacional y el ejército. Esta enmienda obligaría al Departamento de Defensa a revelar, tanto al Congreso como al público, toda la información...
Los corredores de datos recopilan información de localización de nuestras aplicaciones telefónicas y luego venden el acceso al mejor postor, incluido el gobierno. Esta es una forma en la que los alguaciles y los cazarrecompensas de los estados antiabortistas pueden tratar de identificar y castigar a las personas que buscan...
Cuando la gente teme que la policía esté a punto de infringir la ley, saca sus teléfonos y pulsa "grabar". Hacerlo fomenta la responsabilidad policial y el debate público sobre cuestiones importantes. Por lo tanto, es una gran noticia que otro tribunal federal de apelación haya dictaminado que la...
Case history:The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), using a controversial subpoena provision introduced by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), demanded that Verizon Internet Services reveal the identity of a Verizon subscriber who allegedly used KaZaA peer-to-peer software to share music online. Verizon refused to divulge the subscriber's...
La Primera Enmienda nos concede a todos el derecho a decir lo que pensamos. El gobierno no puede cerrar nuestros derechos a expresarnos, protestar y publicar. En la EFF llevamos más de 30 años asegurándonos de que los derechos de la Primera Enmienda sean sólidos en el mundo online.Pero la...
We’re celebrating 32 years of fighting for technology users around the world. EFF has always seen both the beauty and destructive potential of the internet, and we’ve always put our marker down on the side of justice, freedom, and innovation.
Una gran coalición de organizaciones comunitarias y de derechos civiles ha enviado una carta en la que se insta a la Junta de Supervisores de San Francisco a que se oponga o modifique significativamente una propuesta del Departamento de Policía de San Francisco (SFPD) que aumentaría drásticamente sus poderes...
EFF joined SAFEnet and a dozen digital rights organizations in urging the Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information to repeal its invasive content moderation rules, known as the Ministerial Regulation Number 5 (MR5) and its amendment, Ministerial Regulation Number 10 (MR10). EFF has already sounded the alarmabout...
