Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

EFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted pate...

The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

LinkedIn will share your public data with Microsoft to train AI. Find what this means for your privacy and how to opt out.

Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

Don’t frame chatbot failures as human “insanity.”

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Gigawatt-sized data centers are becoming the new normal

The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

Digital Africa explores how digital technologies have opened new spaces for the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms in Africa and how repressive regimes…

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Apple Inc. has hit pause on a planned overhaul to its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources toward a more urgent effort: developing smart glasses that can rival products from Meta Platforms Inc.

A faulty Samsung Galaxy Ring battery caused the smart ring to swell up, sending its wearer to the emergency room for removal.

Its anti-stalking features are reportedly too easy to circumvent.

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

BY LISA FEMIA | September 24, 2025This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When the

The signals a growing crisis of digital repression.

Authorities in Europe will phase in new security measures for Americans and other international travelers over a roughly six-month period starting next month.

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...

ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.

Switzerland-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 n...

Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

In April, WhatsApp launched its “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature, which, once enabled, disables using certain AI features in chats and prevents conversations from being exported. Since its launch, an

The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.