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Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where she exposed how governments weaponized propaganda ...

War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered. When governments invoke "misinformation" during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech they do not control. Since the escalation of conflict ...

We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans' communications with foreign persons overseas is up for renewal. As always, Congress can reauthorize it with or without ...

Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029--only 33 months from now. That's earlier than previous deadlines, and they proposed the new post-quantum migration deadline because of two new papers that ...

The Ninth Circuit should follow Van Buren's lead and interpret the CFAA narrowly, as Congress intended.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

On March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory approval necessary for U.S. sale (and thus effectively a ban on sale of new devices), to include all new routers produced in foreign ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court's ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties ...

Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'--technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking protestors, and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving . ...

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past ...