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Recent News About Electronic Frontier Foundation
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EFF shares digital policy priorities with Trump administration
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a transition memo to the Trump Administration and the 119th U.S. Congress, focusing on digital policy priorities for 2025 and beyond.
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EFF launches website answering common tech questions
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has introduced a new platform called "Digital Rights Bytes," designed to provide clear and concise answers to common technology-related questions.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation reaches first labor agreement with union
Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have reached their first labor contract, as announced jointly today. EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE.
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EFF challenges Texas' HB 1181 at Supreme Court
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and TechFreedom, has called on the Supreme Court to invalidate Texas' HB 1181. This law mandates age verification for access to online sexual content, which the organizations argue infringes on constitutional rights.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation announces recipients of 2024 EFF Awards
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced that Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media will be the recipients of the 2024 EFF Awards. These awards are given in recognition of significant contributions to ensuring technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation.
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Citizen journalists sue TV corporation over false DMCA takedown demands
BOSTON—A citizen journalists’ group represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal lawsuit today against a Massachusetts community-access television company for falsely convincing YouTube to take down video clips of city government meetings.
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Global organizations warn against impending UN surveillance treaty
Experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Human Rights Watch, and the International Fund for Public Interest Media will brief reporters on Wednesday, July 24, at 11:00 am Eastern Time (8:00 am Pacific Time, 5:00 pm CET) about the imminent adoption of a global surveillance treaty. The briefing will address concerns that the treaty threatens human rights worldwide and could usher in an era of transnational repression.
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Court hears arguments challenging federal TikTok ban
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal ban on TikTok must be scrutinized to determine its constitutionality, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and others argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Tarah Wheeler joins Electronic Frontier Foundation's board
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced that Tarah Wheeler, a social scientist studying international conflict and CEO of the cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics, has joined its Board of Directors. Wheeler has been on EFF’s advisory board since June 2020.
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EFF's Matthew Guariglia named National Governing Institutions Fellow
Matthew Guariglia, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has been named a National Governing Institutions Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. This multi-month residential fellowship supports scholars working on research that can impact policy making. Guariglia, who won this fellowship in his personal capacity outside of his work with EFF, will work on a new book about the dramatic increase of the U.S. government's ability to collect and store information on individuals and how it has used that information for various...
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Keyword search warrant upheld by Colorado Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a keyword warrant, a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase.
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On September 11, 2023, the Electronic Frontier Foundation proudly welcomes Erica Astrella, Head of Technology at Parkwood Entertainment and a prominent advocate for diversity and equity in the tech...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recently announced the addition of two esteemed individuals to its Board of Directors. Tadayoshi "Yoshi" Kohno, a well-known security researcher and academic from the University of Washington, and Erica Astrella, Head of Technology at Parkwood Entertainment and an advocate for diversity and equity in the tech industry, have both joined the EFF.
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Cope: Government officials 'must accept the First Amendment obligations that go with using their account for governmental purposes'
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to remind government officials who use social media they have obligations to observe the First Amendment when using their official social media accounts.