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    Jun 28

    BREAKING: EFF has filed a lawsuit asking the federal court to declare FOSTA unconstitutional.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    We’re proud that is part of the Electronic Frontier Alliance. Most projects moving through the EFA aren’t as funny as this.

    Hackers have fixed a chair to the ceiling in protest, after it cluttered the sewing area for months (an aspirational re-upholstery project). Classic Noisebridge.
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  3. 14 hours ago

    A new report—"Deceived By Design"— shows how companies are pushing users into sharing data through confusing layouts, clever design choices, standard settings, and the illusion of choices

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  4. 15 hours ago

    The Senate's already voted to restore . Tell the House of Representatives to do the same.

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  5. 16 hours ago

    A language teacher was hit with a ridiculous patent threat just for putting his classes online. EFF is helping him fight back.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    Across California, police have been misusing databases containing confidential data on residents. Find out what abuses are happening in your community from this new dataset we obtained through a public records request.

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  7. 20 hours ago

    For 28 years, EFF's EFFector newsletter has chronicled the rise of the digital rights movement. Check out our archives going back all the way to 1990.

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  8. 22 hours ago

    We repeatedly warned Congress that SESTA/FOSTA would not have the narrow impact it was supposedly designed for, and would instead chill legitimate free speech—now we're taking that argument to court.

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  9. 24 hours ago

    For an increasing number of users, there is a powerful center to the net—and a potentially uncompetitive and unrepresentative center at that.

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  10. Jul 1

    This August: don't forget to stop by our booth in Vegas! For every Business Pass sold, Black Hat Events will donate $100 to EFF.

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  11. Jul 1

    When everyone is using encryption apps, "the fact that you are using the app at all is not an indicator that you are someone the government might be interested in watching"—and that makes everyone safer, says EFF Staff Technologist Erica Portnoy.

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  12. Jul 1

    For people who care about speech, privacy, and innovation, it’s time to take a hard look at how to level the playing field online and reduce the power of the largest platforms.

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  13. Jul 1

    All excited but don't know why? Maybe it's 'cause this week, we finally settled a case that's been in the courts for over a decade.

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  14. Jul 1

    In California, agencies that use automated license plate readers are required to post their policies online. Here's our running list of links:

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  15. Jul 1

    Let’s say facial recognition improves—that it produces correct matches 100% of the time. Then what? Well, it means we can’t walk around “without the government knowing who we are, where we are, and who we’re talking to,” explains EFF’s Jen Lynch.

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  16. Jul 1

    SESTA/FOSTA's overreaching language violates a precedent that the government must regulate speech "only with narrow specificity." We've filed suit to have it declared unconstitutional.

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  17. Jul 1

    EFF's notes that privacy concerns reach "across the ideological spectrum," and that "Young people are decidedly not OK with state...or corporate-sponsored surveillance."

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  18. Jun 30

    Click here. *To see whether or not your browser fingerprint is unique, and learn what you can do about it.

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  19. Jun 30

    Increasing competition will not fix all the problems with online platforms—but it is one of the few strategies that has the promise of opening up space for innovation.

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  20. Jun 30

    FOSTA is "casting great uncertainty" on whether health and human rights advocacy for sex workers is illegal, says EFF's . And that seems "completely purposeful by Congress."

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  21. Jun 30

    Let's go crazy: To celebrate the end of a case that's been in court for over a decade, we turned the famous 29-second clip of the baby dancing to music by Prince into a ten hour video.

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