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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-03-26

  About Face (Recognition)

Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by pic...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2024-03-12

  "I-Squared" Governance

Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government does “after-action” analyses to make sure its tech regulations are working as intended, recruits experie...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2024-02-27

  Open Source Beats Authoritarianism

What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concerns and preferences are elicited in a way that respects each person’s community, dignity, and...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2024-02-13

  Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Five

We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of inspiring conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around who are thinking about how to make the int...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-12-11

  Season 5 Announcement! Plus, Vote for Us!

We are hard at work on our fifth season of How to Fix the Internet, and we are so excited to be bringing you insightful and inspiring conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around who are thinking about how to make the inte...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-08-30

  Rerelease: Securing the Vote

This episode was first published on May 24, 2022.Pam Smith has been working to secure US elections for years, and now as the CEO of Verified Voting, she has some important ideas about the role the internet plays in American democracy. Pam joins Cindy a...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-05-30

  Who Inserted the Creepy?

Writers sit watching a stranger’s search engine terms being typed in real time, a voyeuristic peek into that person’s most private thoughts. A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company but uncovers an agenda affecting the lives of all of human...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-05-16

  People with Disabilities are the Original Hackers

People with disabilities were the original hackers. The world can feel closed to them, so they often have had to be self-reliant in how they interact with society. And that creativity and ingenuity is an unappreciated resource. Henry Claypool has been ...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-05-02

  Dr. Seuss Warned Us

Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his town’s one lazy bee, because “a bee that is watched will work harder, you see.” But that doesn’t seem to work, so another Hawtch-Hawtcher is assigned to watch the ...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author
2023-04-18

  Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet

An internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone. Though the effects of stigmatization and criminalization run deep, the sex worker community exemplifies how technology can help people reduce harm, share support, and o...
  Electronic Frontier Foundation author