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EFF: Rewriting Copyright Law to Fight Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief in In re OpenAI. It warns that narrowing fair use would harm researchers, journalists and ordinary internet users, while benefiting only powerful media and tech companies.
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San Francisco Keeps Its License-Plate Cameras, Offering Only Weak Safeguards
EFF has criticized the city's decision to retain its automated license-plate reader network, arguing that the new rules do nothing to remove the core danger — the surveillance itself.
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EFF: The EU Kids Act Will Undermine Privacy for Everyone
The European Commission has unveiled the EU Kids Act, imposing age-based access rules for social media and games. EFF warns the price will be pervasive age verification and eroded privacy for all users.
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EFF on the California Governor's AI Executive Order: Start with the Real Risks
The organization welcomes Gavin Newsom's executive order but offers a reminder: the chief threats of artificial intelligence are not a superintelligence uprising, but the algorithmic discrimination, surveillance and inflated prices already happening today.
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EFF: safety rules for AI labs should be grounded in proven practices
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging lawmakers to regulate not abstract "doomsday" scenarios but the concrete risks that have already surfaced in breaches at major AI labs.
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Twenty-Five Years of Mass Surveillance: Time to Take Stock
In an essay for Lawfare, Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the architecture of total surveillance that emerged after 9/11 long ago outgrew the fight against terrorism and has become a routine tool for the police, ICE and private companies.
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Court: The Pentagon Unlawfully Punished Anthropic for Refusing Mass Surveillance
A federal judge has found that the U.S. Department of Defense violated the First Amendment when it branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk” in retaliation for the company's refusal to let Claude be used to surveil Americans.
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EFF: Meta's $17 Billion Deal With Prosecutors Means Surveillance and Age Checks for Everyone
Meta's settlement with 52 US state attorneys general locks in mandatory age verification for every Facebook and Instagram user and, in the view of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, does nothing good for teenagers.
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EFF Urges Newsom to Veto the Bill Banning Social Media for Teens
The California Legislature has passed AB 1709, effectively cutting off teens under 16 from access to social media. The EFF is calling on the governor to reject the measure as a threat to privacy and free speech.
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EFF: Zero-Knowledge Proofs Won't Save Age Verification
The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs don't solve the problems of online age verification, but merely deepen centralization and create new risks.
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Appeals Court Makes It Harder to Defend Platforms Under Section 230
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a denial of Section 230 immunity cannot be appealed immediately. The EFF warns that this will hurt not so much Meta as smaller sites and free speech online.
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The US Senate Votes on Four “Child-Protection” Bills — EFF Says No
The Senate Commerce Committee is taking up KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act and the CHATBOT Act. The EFF warns that, under the guise of protecting children, these bills would ramp up surveillance and impose age verification on everyone.
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Appeals Court: An AI-Agent Browser Doesn't Violate the CFAA
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the EFF's argument: the developer of the Comet browser isn't liable for access to sites that the users themselves direct.
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Drones Instead of Patrols: Aerial Response Programs Surge in the U.S.
After the FAA streamlined its approval process, more than a thousand agencies won the right to launch autonomous police drones. The EFF warns of a new wave of surveillance from the sky.
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U.S. Appeals Court: Manual Phone Search at the Border Requires No Suspicion
The Fourth Circuit has ruled that border agents may manually browse a traveler's smartphone without a warrant and without any suspicion. The EFF, which took part in the case, calls the decision disappointing.