The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
By Matthew Guariglia, Brendan Gilligan, and Cindy Cohn A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the…
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
By Cindy Cohn and Rory Mir We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and…
Remembering Daniel Ellsberg
By Cindy Cohn “Popular government without popular information is but the prologue to a farce or tragedy.” – James Madison The world lost an unmistakable…
Digital Surveillance, Privacy, Censorship and Cybersecurity– 2022 Year in Review
By Cindy Cohn EFF believes we can create a future where our rights not only follow us online, but are enhanced by new technology. The…
The Other 20-Year Anniversary: Freedom and Surveillance Post-9/11
By Cindy Cohn and Matthew Guariglia The twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2021 are a good time to reflect on the world…
Delays Aren’t Good Enough—Apple Must Abandon Its Surveillance Plans
By Cindy Cohn Apple announced today that it would “take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements” to a program…
Pegasus Project Shows the Need for Real Device Security, Accountability and Redress for those Facing State-Sponsored Malware
By Cindy Cohn People all around the world deserve the right to have a private conversation. Communication privacy is a human right, a civil liberty…
Supreme Court Says You Can’t Sue the Corporation that Wrongly Marked You A Terrorist
By Cindy Cohn In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court late last week barred the courthouse door to thousands of people who were wrongly marked…
European Court on Human Rights Bought Spy Agencies’ Spin on Mass Surveillance
By Katitza Rodriguez and Cindy Cohn The Strasbourg highest human rights court this week affirmed what we’ve long known, that the United Kingdom’s mass surveillance…
Litigation Against Mass NSA Surveillance: Year in Review 2020
By Cindy Cohn EFF takes on fights for the long run, and some of our longest running legal fights are focused on bringing the National…
South Africa Bans Bulk Collection. Will the U.S. Courts Follow Suit?
By Cindy Cohn The High Court in South Africa has issued a watershed ruling: holding that South African law currently does not authorize bulk surveillance….
Julian Assange’s Prosecution is about Much More Than Attempting to Hack a Password
By Cindy Cohn The recent arrest of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange surprised many by hinging on one charge: a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)…
National Emergencies: Constitutional and Statutory Restrictions on Presidential Powers
By Cindy Cohn and Shahid Buttar When a president threatens to exercise the power to declare a national emergency, our system of checks and balances…
Big Wins for Privacy and Free Speech: 2018 in Review
By Cindy Cohn and Michael Rosenbloom As 2018 draws to a close, we’ve gathered together some of EFF’s key legal wins this year. Some of…