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We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have become tools to ...

"The right to privacy is being threatened by the indiscriminate collection, maintenance, and dissemination of personal information and the lack of effective laws and legal remedies," some astute California lawmakers once wrote. "The increasing use of ...

School is almost out for summer! You know what that means? Plenty of time to catch up on the latest digital rights news! Don't worry, though--EFF has you covered with our EFFector newsletter.This edition of EFFector explains why efforts to privatize ...

There's a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because they love something so deeply that they want to see it ...

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing titled "Defending Against Drones: Setting Safeguards for Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Authorities." While the government has a legitimate interest in monitoring and mitigating drone ...

After multiple delays of the REAL ID Act of 2005 and its updated counterpart, the REAL ID Modernization Act, in the United States, the May 7th deadline of REAL ID enforcement has finally arrived. Does this move our security forward in the skies? The ...

Lawmakers and regulators around the world have been prolific with passing legislation restricting freedom of expression and privacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and fueling offline intolerance. Online platforms are also complicit in this pervasive ...

This week, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee moved forward with a proposal that would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to strip any U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status by unilaterally determining the organization is a "Terrorist ...

Within the next decade, generative AI could join computers and electricity as one of the most transformational technologies in history, with all of the promise and peril that implies. Governments' responses to GenAI--including new legal precedents- . ...

John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn't want them to .. ...