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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
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…
Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification RolloutAmericans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout
Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout
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…
Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them
By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people that are already ensh…
Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the…
Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton did not end the legal debate over age-verification mandates for websites. Instead, it’s a limited decision: the court’s legal reasoning only applies to age restrictions on sexual ma…
No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces
Across the country, people are collecting and sharing footage of masked law enforcement officers from both federal and local agencies deputized to do so-called immigration enforcement: arresting civilians, in some cases violently and/or warrantlessly. …
World Wide Web creator makes last-minute bid for open Internet in Europe
Tim Berners-Lee, known as the father of the Web, urged European politicians on Monday to “save the Internet” by defending the concept of fair …
Ted Cruz Warns Internet Freedom And Free Speech Have Never Been In Greater Peril
“You know, the Obama FCC has invoked the Fairness Doctrine a number of times with sort of wistful glances to the past. Nostalgia,” he …
Wikipedia parent sues to stop NSA’s massive surveillance effort
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that operates the wildly popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, says user privacy has been violated and that it’s going to …
Florida Legislators Introduce Bill That Would Strip Certain Site Owners Of Their Anonymity
A few Florida legislators are looking to do some serious damage to both free speech and the internet. This week, the Florida state legislature …
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