On April 9th, 2026 with 145 comments
After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be...
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Social Networks,
Twitter,
Index
On March 21st, 2026 with 27 comments
"Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper," writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin.
"That's
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AI,
The Internet,
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On January 19th, 2026 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental...
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On November 22nd, 2025 with 52 comments
A California judge has shut down a decade-long surveillance program in which Sacramento's utility provider shared granular smart-meter data on 650,000...
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On November 18th, 2025 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose,...
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On October 12th, 2025 with 19 comments
California's Privacy Protection Agency "issued a record fine earlier this month to Tractor Supply," according to an EFF Deeplinks blog post — for...
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On September 9th, 2025 with 9 comments
Cindy Cohn, who has led the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Executive Director for the past decade and has been with the organization for over 25 years, will...
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On June 30th, 2025 with 36 comments
Mitch Kapor dropped out of MIT's business school in 1979 — and had soon cofounded the pioneering spreadsheet company Lotus. He also cofounded the EFF,...
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On February 10th, 2025 with 56 comments
"The Internet's Own Boy" was inscribed below the bust, according to the San Francisco Standard, adding that the 312-pound marble statue "was crafted using a...
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On November 9th, 2024 with 44 comments
Friday "would have been his 38th birthday," writes the EFF, remembering Aaron Swartz as "a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet...
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On October 26th, 2024 with 51 comments
In 2004 Alaa Abd El Fattah answered questions from Slashdot's readers about organizing the first-ever Linux installfest in Egypt.
In 2014 he was arrested for...
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On October 7th, 2024 with 108 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared the EFF's "Deeplink" blog post:
EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Mississippi, filed an amicus brief on Thursday...
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On September 16th, 2024 with 145 comments
An EFF article calls out a "brazen attempt to privatize" a wireless frequency band (900 MHz) which America's FCC's left " as a commons for all... for use by...
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On September 7th, 2024 with 80 comments
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a "guaranteed minimum support time" for devices — and federal regulations ensuring a...
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Build,
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On June 23rd, 2024 with 97 comments
Automated license plate readers "pose risks to public safety," argues the EFF, "that may outweigh the crimes they are attempting to address in the first...
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On March 17th, 2024 with 67 comments
A new EFF web page is urging U.S. readers to "Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban," arguing the bill will "do little for its alleged goal of protecting our...
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On February 10th, 2024 with 16 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz shared this report from MuckRock:
Founded in 2003, Appin has been described as a cybersecurity company and an educational...
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On January 23rd, 2024 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: For a country that prides itself on being free, America does seem to have an awful lot of spying going...
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On December 25th, 2023 with 28 comments
"It's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year..." notes Lifehacker senior writer Thorin Klosowski.
"But...
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On December 3rd, 2023 with 32 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader nmb3000 writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new white paper, Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online...
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On November 11th, 2023 with 64 comments
From AaronSwartzDay.com:
Aaron Swartz Day was founded, in 2013, after the death of Aaron Swartz, with these combined goals:
To draw attention to what...
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On September 17th, 2023 with 66 comments
From an EFF announcement this week:
Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can...
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On September 16th, 2023 with 16 comments
For over 30 years the EFF has presented awards recognizing those "advancing innovation and championing digital rights," according to its web site, celebrating...
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On July 8th, 2023 with 240 comments
Slashdot reader j3x0n shared this report from California newspaper the Sacramento Bee:
In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate...
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On June 12th, 2023 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: So, this is bad. Over the last few years, we've written plenty about the so-called "inter partes review" or...
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On May 31st, 2023 with 79 comments
In a groundbreaking ruling, a district court judge in New York, United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), declared that a warrant is necessary for cell...
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On April 16th, 2023 with 31 comments
In March U.S. President Joe Biden "signed an executive order that limits U.S. government agencies from using commercially available spyware," writes EFF senior...
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On April 6th, 2023 with 76 comments
The recently introduced RESTRICT Act, otherwise known as the "TikTok ban," is a dangerous substitute for comprehensive data privacy legislation, writes the...
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On February 10th, 2023 with 20 comments
GitHub and digital rights group EFF have filed briefs supporting stream-ripping site Yout.com in its legal battle with the RIAA. GitHub warns that the lower...
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On January 9th, 2023 with 114 comments
Saturday night in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, the assistant police chief tweeted out praise for their recently-upgraded Automatic License Plate...
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