The Electronic Frontier Foundation welcomed California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order on AI as a start toward addressing real, present-day harms, while cautioning that the most urgent concerns ar…
Trusted execution environments (TEEs) cannot match the security and privacy guarantees of end-to-end encryption or on-device processing, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which argues a…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation urged lawmakers to ground any new frontier AI cybersecurity legislation in established best practices such as stronger sandboxing and monitoring, arguing those measu…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that Alexander "amac" Macgillivray, a former White House official and co-author of the Biden Administration's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, has joine…
Digital sovereignty, defined as the capacity to control one's digital destiny, is increasingly invoked by European officials and global majority governments to reduce dependency on foreign cloud infra…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released approximately 1,000 pages of records from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, re…
A federal judge ruled that the Department of Defense unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic by labeling the AI company a 'supply chain risk' after Anthropic refused to allow its Claude AI product to …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged courts to reject copyright claims against generative AI companies, arguing that expanding copyright protections based on speculation about AI-generated w…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that all images used on its blog posts, donation pages, and shop items are created by human designers, not AI image generators, with rare exceptions.…
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote this week on four internet bills—KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act—which the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ar…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Perplexity AI's Comet browser does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), agreeing with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that users,…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges the Senate to reject the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), arguing that its age verification requirements would undermine privacy for all users and incentiv…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge, and Fight for the Future filed joint comments urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accu…
The Senate Commerce Committee is considering the Youth AI Privacy Act, which would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement safe design features, but the Electronic Frontie…
The CHATBOT Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate as S. 4407, would require all AI chatbot providers to implement federally prescribed family accounts that give parents full access to teens' conversation…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new podcast feed for its EFFecting Change livestream series, starting with a conversation on the Right to Repair movement featuring Adam Savage …
The Department of Homeland Security plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from 830 to 2,300 by 2034, costing over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, according to a n…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that proposed legislation targeting so-called "stealth crawlers" threatens the open web, user privacy, and valuable research, while the New York state le…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) draws parallels between Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 video game and real-world digital rights issues, noting that the game's 2016 depiction of hacktivists fighting s…
Automated content moderation systems continue to disproportionately censor Arabic, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized content due to biased datasets and lack of cultural competence, according to reports f…