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PORTLAND, OR - Saudi human rights activist Loujain Alhathloul's groundbreaking lawsuit concerning spying software that enabled her imprisonment and torture can advance, a federal judge ruled in an opinion unsealed Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Karin J ...

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the world and exterminate humanity. That's a pretty ...

In a promising sign that public pressure works, several crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs, also known as "fake clinics") have quietly scrubbed misleading language about privacy protections from their websites.

Age verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before allowing them to access broad categories of "harmful" ...

When a technology can have a conversation with you, it's natural to anthropomorphize that technology--to see it as a person. It's tempting to see a chatbot as a thinking, speaking robot, but this gives the technology too much credit. This can also .. ...

It's summer security week. EFF is a longtime supporter of the researchers, hackers, and creators who make the web more secure and resistant to human rights abuses. Help us protect them for the good of the internet.

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent ...

It's time for EFF's annual journey to Las Vegas for the summer security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON. Our lawyers, activists, and technologists are always excited to support this community of security researchers and tinkerers- . ...

Companies large and small are doubling down on digital rights, and we're excited to see more and more of them join EFF. We're first and always an organization who fights for users, so you might be asking: Why does EFF work with corporate donors, and ...

Of the many principles EFF fights for in consumer data privacy legislation, one of the most basic is a right to access the data companies have about you. It's only fair. So many companies collect information about us without our knowledge or consent. ...