It remains far too easy for patent trolls to extort and exploit people for creating or using software. This is how EFF fought back this year.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fighting For Progress On Patents: 2024 in Review

The rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build new things and do business–must be available to us o...

San Francisco backslid on key police reforms involving surveillance technologies in 2024. But the fight isn’t over, and we’ll continue championing democratic control and transparency laws at all levels of government.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Police Surveillance in San Francisco: 2024 in Review

From a historic ban on police using face recognition, to landmark CCOPS legislation, to the first ban in the United States of police deploying dead...