Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more
www.wired.com/story/eff-ci... Forums: r/fednews : Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights BeauHD / Slashdot : Executive Director Cindy Cohn Will Step Down After 25 Years Wi...
While facial recognition tech remains unregulated at the US federal level, 23 states have passed or expanded laws to restrict mass scraping of biometric data
Bobby Allyn / NPR : LinkedIn: Pete Fussey . Bluesky: @eff.org . Forums: r/technology LinkedIn: Pete Fussey : Interviewed for this NPR story on US State-level initiatives to regulate biometrics in the...
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs
“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself.” — www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/chris- k... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker.com : Electr...
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details
How can this be? — Because law enforcement stacks the deck, and judges allow it, while legislatures ignore the injustices. — https://www.nbcnews.com/... CivicWhitaker / @civicwhitaker@mastodon … :...
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details
Cybercheck's founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise … Threads: @lllafalce , @hashimwarren , and @lavishtantrums . Mastodon: ...
How Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a fair use case before SCOTUS, could impact how copyright law is applied to what AI tools can do with human-made works
and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI https://www.wired.com/... Touradj Ebrahimi / @touradjebrahimi : What War...
A look at the reaction to Apple's E2EE news: the FBI is “deeply concerned” and says the change “hinders” its work while the EFF and others applaud the feature
Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data …
A profile of Fog Data Science, which purchases raw geolocation data collected by mobile apps and sells it to law enforcement agencies for a subscription fee
This article is part of EFF's investigation of location data brokers and Fog Data Science. Be sure to check out our issue page on Location Data Brokers.
Analysis finds HiMama and other popular daycare apps lack 2FA and have privacy-compromising features like trackers that were not disclosed in privacy policies
Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children's care.
Jon Callas, formerly of Apple, Blackphone, PGP Corp, and co-founder of Silent Circle, joins EFF as Technology Projects Director
Some of the most important work we do at EFF is build technologies to protect users' privacy and security, and give developers tools to make the entire Internet ecosystem more safe and secure.