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The Electronic Frontier Alliance is growing and this year we've been honored to welcome Open Austin into the EFA. Open Austin began in 2009 as a meetup that successfully advocated for a city-run open data portal, and relaunched as a 501(c)3 in 2018 . ...

For over 35 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. This year, we're proud to present awards to Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and .. ...

The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner - it's already here. Rapidly ...

When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone--from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you've been since you first started using the phone--in other words, data that is in ...

The records disclosed in the settlement show that in late 2023, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office paid $180,000 for a two-year subscription to the Tangles "Web Intelligence Platform," which is a Cobwebs Technologies product that allows the ...

The Ninth Circuit upheld an important limitation on Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas that other federal courts have recognized for more than two decades. The DMCA, a misguided anti-piracy law passed in the late nineties, created a ...

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming . ...

In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users' speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further ...

The White House's recently-unveiled "AI Action Plan" wages war on so-called "woke AI"--including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration's views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also . ...

Catching up on your backlog of digital rights news has never been easier! EFF has a one-stop-shop to keep you up to date on the latest in the fight against censorship and surveillance--our EFFector newsletter.This time we're covering an act of ...