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EFF Launches Digital Rights Bytes to Answer Tech Questions that Bug Us All
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-digital-rights-bytes-answer-tech-questions-bug-us-all
Published: October 31, 2024 15:55
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched “Digital Rights Bytes,” a new website with short videos offering quick, easily digestible answers to the technology questions that trouble us all.Â
“It’s increasingly clear there is no way to…
EFF and IFPTE Local 20 Attain Labor Contract
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-ifpte-local-20-attain-labor-contract
Published: October 16, 2024 15:17
SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they jointly announced today. EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE. Â
The EFF…
EFF to Supreme Court: Strike Down Texas’ Unconstitutional Age Verification Law
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-strike-down-texas-unconstitutional-age-verification-law
Published: September 23, 2024 18:30
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and TechFreedom urged the Supreme Court today to strike down HB 1181, a Texas law that unconstitutionally restricts adults’ access to sexual content online by…
Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/electronic-frontier-foundation-present-annual-eff-awards-carolina-botero-connecting
Published: July 25, 2024 14:20
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media will receive the 2024 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and…
Journalists Sue Massachusetts TV Corporation Over Bogus YouTube Takedown Demands
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/journalists-sue-massachusetts-tv-corporation-over-bogus-youtube-takedown-demands
Published: July 25, 2024 00:17
BOSTON—A citizen journalists’ group represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal lawsuit today against a Massachusetts community-access television company for falsely convincing YouTube to take down video clips of city government…
Media Briefing: EFF, Partners Warn UN Member States Are Poised to Approve Dangerous International Surveillance Treaty
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/media-briefing-eff-partners-warn-un-member-states-are-poised-approve-dangerous
Published: July 22, 2024 05:11
SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, July 24, at 11:00 am Eastern Time (8:00 am Pacific Time, 5:00 pm CET), experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media…
Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/government-has-extremely-heavy-burden-justify-tiktok-ban-eff-tells-appeals-court
Published: June 27, 2024 14:17
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal ban on TikTok must be put under the finest judicial microscope to determine its constitutionality, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and others argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday to the U.S. Court of…
EFF Welcomes Tarah Wheeler to Its Board of Directors
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-welcomes-tarah-wheeler-its-board-directors
Published: June 25, 2024 21:42
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Tarah Wheeler — a social scientist studying international conflict, an author, and a poker player who is CEO of the cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics…
Matthew Guariglia, EFF Senior Policy Analyst, Named to Library of Congress Fellowship
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/matthew-guariglia-eff-senior-policy-analyst-named-library-congress-fellowship
Published: June 13, 2024 21:52
WASHINGTON, DC—Matthew Guariglia, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has been named a National Governing Institutions Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Â
This multi-month residential fellowship…
EFF Zine on Surveillance Tech at the Southern Border Shines Light on Ever-Growing Spy Network
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-zine-surveillance-tech-southern-border-shines-light-ever-growing-spy-network
Published: May 6, 2024 15:13
SAN FRANCISCO—Sensor towers controlled by AI, drones launched from truck-bed catapults, vehicle-tracking devices disguised as traffic cones—all are part of an arsenal of technologies that comprise the expanding U.S surveillance strategy along the…