21 organizations, including EFF, have urged UK PM Keir Starmer: Use every means to secure Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s release
Electronic Frontier Foundation
245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
21 organizations, including EFF, have urged UK PM Keir Starmer: Use every means to secure Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s release https://www.eff.org/deepli...
You can’t scan private messages before they’re encrypted without destroying end-to-end encryption. The EU’s new “encryption roadmap” gets that wrong.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
You can’t scan private messages before they’re encrypted without destroying end-to-end encryption. The EU’s new “encryption roadmap” gets...
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts would revive invalid software patents and cripple our best tools for fighting patent trolls.
Don’t Let Congress Bring Back the Worst Patents
Two dangerous patent bills—PERA and PREVAIL—are back in Congress. These bills would revive harmful patents and make it harder for the public to...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts would revive invalid software patents and cripple our best tools for fighting patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/d...
Congress is trying to bring back the worst patents in tech.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts Would Make Bad Patents Easier to Get—and Harder to Fight
Two dangerous bills have been reintroduced in Congress that would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
Congress is trying to bring back the worst patents in tech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/pera-and-prevail-acts-would-make-bad-patents-easi...
“We have to act now because governments are enthusiastic about digital ID, but if we don’t pin down these basic principles now, it’s going to be a problem later,” EFF’s @zoracon.bsky.social told @statescoop.bsky.social.
StateScoop
Privacy advocates are worried about mobile driver’s licenses | StateScoop
Dozens of privacy advocates, along with top digital rights groups, have signed onto a campaign to remove the surveillance capabilities native to mo...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
“We have to act now because governments are enthusiastic about digital ID, but if we don’t pin down these basic principles now, it’s going to...
Best wishes to the amazing @marcmaron.bsky.social as he prepares to retire his epic #WTFpod. He and @producermcd.bsky.social joined EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” in 2022 to discuss saving podcasts (including their own!) from patent trolls. Give it a listen!
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Podcast Episode: Saving Podcasts from a Patent Troll
Imagine getting a letter in the mail—and then another, and then another—telling you that if you don’t pay $25,000 to a company you’ve never...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
Best wishes to the amazing @marcmaron.bsky.social as he prepares to retire his epic #WTFpod. He and @producermcd.bsky.social joined EFF’s “How ...
Join Mondo 2000 at Gray Area SF on Sat, June 7 for The Gulf of Deliria — a wild night of cyberculture, counterculture, music, and mayhem.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids present: Come to the Gulf of Deliria
Mondo 2000 (not EFF) will host this event. EFF's Cindy Cohn will be speaking.From the Organizers: Join us for “Welcome to the Gulf of Deliri...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
Join Mondo 2000 at Gray Area SF on Sat, June 7 for The Gulf of Deliria — a wild night of cyberculture, counterculture, music, and mayhem. https:/...
Electronic monitoring isn't a humane alternative—it's digital incarceration. If you're fighting EM conditions for your clients, this blog breaks down the constitutional, statutory, and strategic angles worth knowing.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring
In criminal prosecutions, electronic monitoring (EM) is pitched as a “humane alternative" to incarceration – but it is not. The latest generati...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
Electronic monitoring isn't a humane alternative—it's digital incarceration. If you're fighting EM conditions for your clients, this blog breaks ...
The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption. https...
Penalizing a would-be foreign student or visitor for not being active on social media or keeping their online presence shielded from the general public is an outrageous overreach by the administration, EFF’s Sophia Cope told @bloomberg.com.
Bloomberg.com
Rubio Ramps Up Pressure on Harvard With Expanded Visa Scrutiny
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
Penalizing a would-be foreign student or visitor for not being active on social media or keeping their online presence shielded from the general pu...