[VISUAL] The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance, and How to Fix It Between the increasing capabilities of local and state police, the creep of federal law enforcement into domestic policing, the use of aerial surveillance such as spy planes and drones, and mounting cooperation between private technology companies and the…
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Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition Cities and states across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, New Orleans to Minneapolis, elected officials and activists know…
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How Big ISPs Are Trying to Burn California’s $7 Billion Broadband Fund A month ago, Governor Newsom announced a plan to invest $7 billion of federal rescue funds and state surplus dollars to be mostly invested into public broadband infrastructure meant to serve every Californian with affordable access to infrastructure…
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Supreme Court Upholds Process to Challenge Bad Patents The Patent Office grants thousands of patents a year, including many that would be invalidated if a court considered them. These junk patents should never be issued in the first place, but fortunately there is a way to challenge them at the…
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Standing With Security Researchers Against Misuse of the DMCA Security research is vital to protecting the computers upon which we all depend, and protecting the people who have integrated electronic devices into their daily lives. To conduct security research, we need to protect the researchers, and allow them the tools…
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Understanding Amazon Sidewalk Just before the long weekend at the end of May, Amazon announced the release of their Sidewalk mesh network. There are many misconceptions about what it is and what it does, so this article will untangle some of the confusion.…
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A Long Overdue Reckoning For Online Proctoring Companies May Finally Be Here EFF Legal Intern Haley Amster contributed to this post. Over the past year, the use of online proctoring apps has skyrocketed. But while companies have seen upwards of a 500% increase in their usage, legitimate concerns about their…
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Congress Wants to Put the Brakes on Runaway Acquisitions by Big Tech The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recently released a comprehensive series of bills designed to curb the excesses of Big Tech. One of them, the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, addresses one of the biggest,…
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