When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers i...
Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How They Interact
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which...
Science needs to be ready for the censorship and chilling of scholarly research. That means a global rejection of large intermediaries getting between researchers and the public. #OAWeek
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers i...
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...
Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going
Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disob...
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Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Summer 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of February 15. See below for instructions and a link to the applicatio...
This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Joint Statement on the UN Cybercrime Convention: EFF and Global Partners Urge Governments Not to Sign
EFF and a coalition of civil society organizations have urged UN Member States not to sign the UN Convention Against Cybercrime. For those that mov...
"If people know that ICE is on social media... looking for anybody who demonstrates any sort of allegiance to their [home] country, that's going to chill people's willingness to say anything publicly," EFF’s @npub1dc8w...ag3a told AFP.
France 24
Flush with cash, US immigration agency expands weaponry and surveillance
The agency overseeing Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown is spending tens of millions of dollars on guns, ammunition, body armor ...
In this political climate, license plate data too easily can be weaponized against vulnerable people like migrants, journalists, abortion-seekers, or those trying to secure gender-affirming care for their children, EFF’s Dave Maass told Lost Coast Outpost.
Lost Coast Outpost
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Appears to be Violating Its Own Policy and State Law on Automated License Plate Readers
The more device-makers cram more AI features into their devices, the more necessary it is for us to have clear and simple controls over how these features work on our devices.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How They Interact
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which...