Want encrypted communications? “Signal is the easiest and works out of the box by default for everyone. WhatsApp is fine but collects more metadata,” EFF’s @npub1l3xy...v4qu told @npub1wepe...xvdk. “Email is almost never a good idea.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/09/encrypted-messaging-apps-calls-iphone-andriod/
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The House passed H.R. 9495 last month to give the executive branch the power to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status without due process. Tell the Senate not to pass this speech-chilling legislation!
Tell Congress Not To Weaponize The Treasury Department Against Nonprofits
The House of Representatives just passed a dangerous bill that gives broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch would allow the Sec...
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34 states have anti-SLAPP laws that protect people speaking out from being bullied by meritless litigation. It’s time for us to have such protections in federal courts as well.
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This Bill Could Put A Stop To Censorship By Lawsuit
SLAPPs aren’t designed to win on the merits, but rather to harass journalists, activists, and consumers into silence by suing them over their pro...
Site blocking means the right to choose what websites you visit would be taken away from you and given to giant media companies and ISPs. And the very shape of the internet would have to be changed to allow it.
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The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the First Amendment Protects
Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This...
This is what you inherit when you want to “sell everything.” You also inherit the responsibility and risk of each market you encroach or supplant.
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One Down, Many to Go with Pre-Installed Malware on Android
Last year, we investigated a Dragon Touch children’s tablet (KidzPad Y88X 10) and confirmed that it was linked to a string of fully compromised A...
Did you know that most printer ink isn’t even expensive to make? Why then is it so expensive to refill the ink on your printer?
Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive?
Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive?
“Censorship was both a consequence of and a building block of the Apartheid system. There was no real freedom of expression,” says Anriette Esterhuysen about growing up in South Africa. Learn more in her Speaking Freely interview:
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Speaking Freely: Anriette Esterhuysen
Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking trailblazer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Co...
Common sense laws can prevent data brokers from selling our location information and protect vulnerable groups from being tracked.
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Location Tracking Tools Endanger Abortion Access. Lawmakers Must Act Now.
EFF wrote recently about Locate X, a deeply troubling location tracking tool that allows users to see the precise whereabouts of individuals based ...