Account portability on the Fediverse vs. the ATmosphere
You want to leave your server. What happens to your followers, your handle, and your posts? On the Fediverse, leaving is a move. In the…
Tech and Internet
Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet
Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming…
Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What We’ve Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our…
Pluralistic: Google is a scammer’s paradise (05 Aug 2026)
Today’s links Google is a scammer’s paradise: The internet’s absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ realistic…
Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT…
Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots
We’re joining with EFF and other civil society groups asking the Governor of New York to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. Here’s why. News…
Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given…
Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Users’ PrivacySAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize…
Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps. But those same SDKs can…
Technology’s Power in the Hands of the People
In the scorching heat of every Las Vegas summer, EFF joins thousands of hackers, makers, policy analysts, and activists for the world’s largest computer security…