Tech & Big Tech

We are sad to report the passing of longtime EFF Board member, Dave Farber. Dave was 91 and lived in…

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to…

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to…

from the supreme-court-jr dept Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that’s simply not true.…

Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. But Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) erode civil liberties…

from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Welcome to the world of seamless browsing with AdGuard Personal or Family plans. This intuitive ad…

from the they’re-saying-boooo-urns dept If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you…

from the retrospective-omnibus dept This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven…

For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community,…

from the they’re-both-wrong dept Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the…

(This appeared as an op-ed published Friday, Feb. 6 in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.) Section 230, “the…

from the 230-is-30 dept The Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law thirty years ago today, on February 8, 1996. Buried in a…