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…
Google's new reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification scheme will block users running independent, de-googled versions of Android, continuing the company's pattern of anti-competitive behavior. The thrice-convic…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that automated content moderation using AI has become a permanent fixture of online platforms, warning that crisis-era protocols adopted during the pand…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging supporters to become members for as little as $10 per month to help cut through AI hype and advocate for privacy, free expression, and protections ag…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default, ending data sharing with advertisers and AI training without opt-in consen…
Researchers have repeatedly found Android devices pre-loaded with malware sold on Amazon and other major online retailers, with one campaign affecting 10 million devices. The Electronic Frontier Found…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in urging the UK to halt its deployment of Facial Age Estimation (FAE) technology at the border…
Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill creating a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce online platforms into censoring lawful speech. …
The Trump administration's AI regulation has been haphazard and retaliatory, particularly against Anthropic, violating the First Amendment by punishing the company for refusing to allow its models to …