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Section 230

In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users’ speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further effor…

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Creativity & Innovation

The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targ…

CVE featured Patch Tuesday Threat Research Windows

Microsoft haul this month covers 109 CVEs… more or less

EFF is Co-Counsel in Case Detailing Harms Caused by Export of U.S. Cybersurveillance Technology and Training to Repressive RegimesPORTLAND, OR – Saudi human rights activist Loujain Alhathloul’s groundbreaking lawsuit concerning spying software that ena…

Podcast Episode: Separating AI Hope from AI HypePodcast Episode: Separating AI Hope from AI Hype

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning How to Fix the Internet: Podcast

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the world and exterminate humanity. That’s a pretty wide …

Medical Privacy Reproductive Justice

In a promising sign that public pressure works, several crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs, also known as “fake clinics”) have quietly scrubbed misleading language about privacy protections from their websites. 
Earlier this year, EFF sent complaints to at…

Products & Services

Following multiple enhancements to Sophos Email – the only MDR-optimized email security solution – Sophos is introducing two new offerings to boost email security posture.

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification RolloutAmericans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

Privacy

Age verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before allowing them to access broad categories of “harmful” c…

anomaly detection Black Hat command line featured LLM Sophos X-Ops Threat Research

Following on from our preview, here’s Ben Gelman and Sean Bergeron’s research on enhancing command line classification with benign anomalous data

avkiller EDR killer featured heartcrypt RansomHub Sophos X-Ops Threat Research

A look under the hood at a tool designed to disable protections

Creativity & Innovation

When a technology can have a conversation with you, it’s natural to anthropomorphize that technology—to see it as a person. It’s tempting to see a chatbot as a thinking, speaking robot, but this gives the technology too much credit. This can also lead …

No Walled Gardens. No Gilded Cages.No Walled Gardens. No Gilded Cages.

Sometimes technology feels like a gilded cage, and you’re not the one holding the key. Most people can’t live off the grid, so how do we stop data brokers who track and exploit you for money? Tech companies that distort what you see and hear? Governmen…

Privacy

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent child…

EFF at the Las Vegas Security ConferencesEFF at the Las Vegas Security Conferences

It’s time for EFF’s annual journey to Las Vegas for the summer security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON. Our lawyers, activists, and technologists are always excited to support this community of security researchers and tinkerers—the …

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