Top Hackernews posts from www.eff.org

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life (www.eff.org)

2260 points by bbatsell about 3 years ago | 824 comments
ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is (www.eff.org)

1460 points by mantiq about 1 year ago | 1257 comments
Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat (www.eff.org)

1291 points by prhrb over 1 year ago | 212 comments
The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos (www.eff.org)

1264 points by glitcher over 1 year ago | 463 comments
Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans (www.eff.org)

1236 points by miles about 3 years ago | 335 comments
Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant (www.eff.org)

1050 points by panarky over 1 year ago | 319 comments
EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd (www.eff.org)

913 points by oxylibrium over 3 years ago | 520 comments
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll (www.eff.org)

815 points by polm23 over 3 years ago | 232 comments
The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues (www.eff.org)

775 points by DiabloD3 over 2 years ago | 252 comments
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act (www.eff.org)

736 points by buu700 over 2 years ago | 327 comments
Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening (www.eff.org)

718 points by dredmorbius almost 3 years ago | 375 comments
Your computer should say what you tell it to say (www.eff.org)

689 points by skilled about 1 year ago | 254 comments
UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users (www.eff.org)

672 points by judiisis 12 months ago | 404 comments
Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship (www.eff.org)

659 points by DiabloD3 about 3 years ago | 544 comments
The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide (www.eff.org)

638 points by pwmtr about 1 year ago | 415 comments
Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data (www.eff.org)

636 points by gslin 11 months ago | 246 comments
Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship (www.eff.org)

618 points by taxyovio about 3 years ago | 303 comments
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (www.eff.org)

604 points by wyldfire over 3 years ago | 349 comments
Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused (www.eff.org)

592 points by oedmarap almost 3 years ago | 581 comments
EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning (www.eff.org)

549 points by DiabloD3 about 3 years ago | 209 comments
PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter (www.eff.org)

532 points by tirz over 3 years ago | 181 comments
Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right (www.eff.org)

466 points by Trouble_007 about 2 years ago | 713 comments
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021) (www.eff.org)

441 points by tambourine_man 10 months ago | 202 comments
The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption (www.eff.org)

436 points by KubikPixel over 3 years ago | 126 comments
Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires (www.eff.org)

426 points by mikro2nd about 3 years ago | 156 comments
Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster (www.eff.org)

426 points by abecedarius about 3 years ago | 374 comments
Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail (www.eff.org)

397 points by glitcher over 1 year ago | 171 comments
The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702 (www.eff.org)

347 points by freedomben about 1 year ago | 131 comments
Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car (www.eff.org)

326 points by cooperq over 2 years ago | 138 comments
What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)

323 points by cryoz over 1 year ago | 267 comments
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)

301 points by doener 4 months ago | 338 comments
Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online (www.eff.org)

299 points by leotravis10 about 1 year ago | 133 comments
Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018) (www.eff.org)

292 points by Jimmc414 almost 3 years ago | 307 comments
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones (www.eff.org)

282 points by DiabloD3 about 3 years ago | 140 comments
HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023 (www.eff.org)

274 points by gslin over 2 years ago | 143 comments
Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal (www.eff.org)

267 points by mutant_glofish about 1 year ago | 37 comments
Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet (www.eff.org)

260 points by CTOSian over 2 years ago | 87 comments
How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should (www.eff.org)

256 points by schalkneethling 9 months ago | 197 comments
Adtech surveillance and government surveillance are often the same (www.eff.org)

255 points by gslin 11 months ago | 47 comments
Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years (www.eff.org)

253 points by agwa 11 months ago | 125 comments
Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government (www.eff.org)

250 points by panarky 10 months ago | 65 comments
If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access (www.eff.org)

249 points by ystad over 3 years ago | 48 comments
EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters (www.eff.org)

248 points by rastafang almost 3 years ago | 105 comments
Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA (www.eff.org)

232 points by sohkamyung over 3 years ago | 91 comments
EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video (www.eff.org)

230 points by Magicstatic over 3 years ago | 35 comments
EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts (www.eff.org)

229 points by jelliclesfarm over 3 years ago | 147 comments
The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce (www.eff.org)

202 points by harporoeder 9 months ago | 1 comments
Appeals court upholds right to post public laws online (www.eff.org)

201 points by glitcher about 1 year ago | 67 comments
Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data (www.eff.org)

195 points by gslin 10 months ago | 102 comments
EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance (www.eff.org)

194 points by panarky over 3 years ago | 127 comments
California Court of Appeal finds geofence warrant unconstitutional (www.eff.org)

194 points by miles over 1 year ago | 41 comments
The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world (www.eff.org)

184 points by dredmorbius almost 3 years ago | 39 comments
EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits (www.eff.org)

184 points by nfriedly 6 months ago | 36 comments
The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020) (www.eff.org)

182 points by gmays about 3 years ago | 164 comments
The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds (www.eff.org)

177 points by elorant about 3 years ago | 176 comments
Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests (www.eff.org)

175 points by glitcher 9 months ago | 45 comments
New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests (www.eff.org)

172 points by DiabloD3 over 3 years ago | 142 comments
Fog Revealed: A guided tour of how cops can browse your location data (www.eff.org)

171 points by throwaway888abc about 2 years ago | 40 comments
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool (www.eff.org)

171 points by laserstrahl 8 months ago | 61 comments
Don't fall for the latest changes to the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (www.eff.org)

170 points by leotravis10 7 months ago | 36 comments
Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic (www.eff.org)

163 points by glitcher over 3 years ago | 40 comments
SFPD obtained live access to business camera network in anticipation of protest (www.eff.org)

147 points by jaredwiener over 1 year ago | 134 comments
US Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? and Who Do They Share That Information With? (www.eff.org)

144 points by gslin 10 months ago | 23 comments
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) (www.eff.org)

143 points by Anon84 about 3 years ago | 78 comments
Pasco County’s Sheriff Must End Its Targeted Child Harassment Program (www.eff.org)

139 points by glitcher over 3 years ago | 83 comments
EFF about EU: EIDAS 2.0 Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Web Security (www.eff.org)

121 points by AceSlash almost 2 years ago | 44 comments
New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education (www.eff.org)

118 points by gamontserrat about 3 years ago | 100 comments
Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers (www.eff.org)

115 points by tbodt over 3 years ago | 90 comments
Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare (www.eff.org)

115 points by CTOSian about 3 years ago | 26 comments
EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser (www.eff.org)

104 points by rickcarlino 9 months ago | 3 comments
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant (www.eff.org)

102 points by lamontcg 11 months ago | 72 comments
Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It (www.eff.org)

100 points by fsflover 7 months ago | 32 comments
EFF Appeals Order Denying Public Access to Patent Filings (www.eff.org)

97 points by gslin 4 months ago | 2 comments
List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots (www.eff.org)

94 points by anonu about 3 years ago | 28 comments
Censoring Naked Yoga (www.eff.org)

92 points by samizdis over 1 year ago | 81 comments
An Update on Tornado Cash (www.eff.org)

86 points by panarky over 1 year ago | 35 comments
Companies make it too easy for thieves to impersonate police and steal data (www.eff.org)

86 points by alexzeitler 8 months ago | 21 comments
It’s Back: Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages (www.eff.org)

82 points by hirundo over 2 years ago | 2 comments
Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online (www.eff.org)

82 points by DiabloD3 over 1 year ago | 17 comments
You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl" (www.eff.org)

80 points by nozzlegear 7 months ago | 17 comments
No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World (www.eff.org)

80 points by mdp2021 4 months ago | 34 comments
The EFF has launched a campaign to protect the Internet from ISPlevel censorship (www.eff.org)

77 points by Anonymous4272 almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
Free as in Climbing: Open Data Project Threatened by Bogus Copyright Claims (www.eff.org)

74 points by pabs3 over 3 years ago | 26 comments
SXSW Tried to Silence Critics with Bogus Trademark and Copyright Claims (www.eff.org)

73 points by coloneltcb 6 months ago | 27 comments
Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages (www.eff.org)

70 points by panarky over 2 years ago | 6 comments
EFF Takes a Stance: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots (www.eff.org)

70 points by glitcher almost 2 years ago | 80 comments
EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board (www.eff.org)

68 points by thecoffman almost 3 years ago | 12 comments
Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science (www.eff.org)

68 points by andyxor over 3 years ago | 33 comments
The difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads (www.eff.org)

69 points by sohkamyung 3 months ago | 40 comments
After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere (www.eff.org)

67 points by riffic over 2 years ago | 21 comments
553M Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy (www.eff.org)

67 points by panarky over 3 years ago | 2 comments
10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For (www.eff.org)

66 points by arkadiyt over 1 year ago | 8 comments
To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech (www.eff.org)

64 points by mgreg over 1 year ago | 2 comments
EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do (www.eff.org)

61 points by guerrilla over 2 years ago | 47 comments
EFF argues DMCA section 1201(a) violates First Amendment (www.eff.org)

61 points by ronsor 7 months ago | 9 comments
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse (www.eff.org)

59 points by colinprince about 2 years ago | 22 comments
HTTPS Everywhere to Be Deprecated (www.eff.org)

57 points by luke2m almost 3 years ago | 25 comments
Anti-War Hacktivism Is Leading to Digital Xenophobia and a More Hostile Internet (www.eff.org)

57 points by cooperq over 2 years ago | 7 comments
No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security (www.eff.org)

56 points by glitcher about 3 years ago | 10 comments
The Worst Timeline: A Printer Company Is Putting DRM in Paper Now (www.eff.org)

56 points by pabs3 over 2 years ago | 7 comments