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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Facebook announced it is, for now, shutting down its face recognition program, which created face prints of users and automatically recognized them in uploaded photos. The decision to end the program comes at a […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
The Electronic Frontier Alliance is made up of more than seventy groups of concerned community members, often including workers in the tech industry who see issues of the industry from the inside. One of the […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has interfered with a staggering array of speech and innovation, from security research to accessibility for those with disabilities to remix and even repair. By […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
It goes by many names, but no matter how you cut it, the new “Inclusive Access” model for college course materials is a bad deal for students.
Educators are moving increasingly towards digital textbooks, […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. T […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Last year, the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), an ambitious and thoughtful project to rein in the power of Big Tech and give European internet users more control over their digital lives. It was an […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
The future is online. Actually, the present is online, and the future more so. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the constant refrain about the “new normal” prove that not only is internet access vital to 21st cen […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Wholesale Networks Will Build Future-Proof Communications NetworksSan Francisco—Public investments in open access fiber networks, instead of more subsidies for broadband carriers, will bring high-speed internet o […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. Our faces are unique identifiers, and most of us expose them everywhere we go. And unlike our […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
It is with heavy hearts that we mourn and celebrate our friend and colleague Elliot Harmon, who passed away peacefully on Saturday morning following a lengthy battle with melanoma. We will deeply miss Elliot’s c […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
EFF Legislative Intern Suzi Ragheb wrote this blog post
Antitrust has not had its moment since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil. But this past year, policymakers and government leaders around the globe have been […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Since he helped found EFF 31 years ago, John Gilmore has provided leadership and guidance on many of the most important digital rights issues we advocate for today. But in recent years, we have not seen eye-to-eye […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an a […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Oakland residents shared the stories of their personal experience; a broad coalition of advocates, civil society organizations, and local internet service providers (ISPs) lifted their voices; and now the Oakland […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
We get a lot of requests for help here at EFF, with our tireless intake coordinator being the first point of contact for many. All too often, however, the help needed isn’t legal or technical. Instead, users j […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Technology rarely invents new societal problems. Instead, it digitizes them, supersizes them, and allows them to balloon and duplicate at the speed of light. That’s exactly the problem we’ve seen with loc […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. It’s critical for our privacy and security online. That’s why we litigate in courts to protect the right to encrypt, build technologies to encrypt the web, and it’ […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
The European Parliament’s regulations and policy-making decisions on technology and the internet have unique influence across the globe. With great influence comes great responsibility. We believe the European P […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
Users are understandably frustrated and perplexed by many big tech companies’ content moderation practices. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms make many questionable, confounding, and often d […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 6 months ago
This blog post is part of a series, looking at the public interest internet—the parts of the internet that don’t garner the headlines of Facebook or Google, but quietly provide public goods and useful services wit […]
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