Freedom IndexAI & Censorship
AI & Censorship examines how artificial intelligence shapes the boundaries of free expression. From algorithmic content moderation and shadow banning to debates over bias, surveillance, and digital rights, this category highlights the tension between innovation and control. Stay informed on how AI is being used to police, restrict, or protect speech—and what it means for the future of open dialogue online.
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an…
Your location isn’t just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life.…
A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech…
Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology, has rolled out a handful of new reforms intended to appease…
We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on donation…
Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian…
Access to accurate information about reproductive and maternal health can be critical. But on Meta’s platforms, simply talking about prescription…
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA),…
Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps.…
SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically…