12+ hour, 36+ min ago  (289+ words) You're invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (274+ words) Last fall, EFF filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an expansive theory of secondary copyright liability that threatened to impose massive damages on internet service providers and other technology companies simply for offering widely used services....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (327+ words) Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy's Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow'Electronic Frontier Foundation Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy's Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (180+ words) Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper." But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive"from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (149+ words) If you want to try getting an IP address certificate using Certbot, install version 5.4 or higher (for webroot support with IP addresses), and run this command: Two things of note: As of right now, Certbot only supports getting IP address…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1051+ words) A.B. 1043s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone'Electronic Frontier Foundation A.B. 1043s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (483+ words) We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (1680+ words) David Greene: Shin, please introduce yourself to the Speaking Freely community. "DG: Great. And so let's talk about how that work intersects with freedom of expression as a principle, and your own personal feelings about freedom of expression. And so…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (183+ words) Wisconsin's S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It's an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote about it last November in our blog "Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs'And They Have…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (497+ words) Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. We've written extensively about why age verification mandates are a censorship and surveillance nightmare. Discord's shift only reinforces those concerns. Here's why: Discord literally won…...