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Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an independent, self-hosted community for sexual minorities ...

EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic ...

The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over what the government could and could not use ...

The brief argues that geofence warrants--which compel companies to provide information on every electronic device in a given area during a given time period--are the digital version of the exploratory rummaging that the drafters of the Fourth ...

Who should be directly liable for online infringement - the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under . ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before ...

In a big win for protesters' rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester's devices and digital data and a nonprofit's social media data.The ...

Being required to present your ID to access content online is becoming a growing reality for many. We're explaining the dangers of age verification laws, and the latest in the fight for privacy and free speech online, with our EFFector newsletter.

Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There are free options, and even ones built into your .. ...

We recently introduced a policy governing large language model (LLM) assisted contributions to EFF's open-source projects. At EFF, we strive to produce high quality software tools, rather than simply generating more lines of code in less time. We now ...