The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention dangerously undermines human rights, opening the door to unchecked cross-border surveillance and government overreach. Despite two and a half years of negotiations, the draft treaty authorizes extensive surveillance powers without robust safeguards, omitting essential data protection principles. This risks turning international efforts to fight cybercrime...

The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention is an extensive surveillance pact that imposes intrusive domestic surveillance measures and mandates states’ cooperation in surveillance and data sharing. It requires states to aid each other in cybercrime investigations and prosecutions, allowing the collection, preservation, and sharing of electronic evidence for any crime deemed...

هذا هو الجزء الأول من سلسلة مستمرة.إن تورط الحكومة في تعديل المحتوى يثير مخاوف خطيرة بشأن حقوق الإنسان في كل سياق. منذ السابع من أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول، تعرضت منصات التواصل الاجتماعي للتحد بسبب عمليات الإزالة غير المبررة للمحتوى المؤيد للفلسطينيين/ات - أحيانًا بناءً على طلب الحكومة الإسرائيلية -...

We don’t know a lot more about when government jawboning social media companies—that is, attempting to pressure them to censor users’ speech— violates the First Amendment; but we do know that lawsuits based on such actions will be hard to win. In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme...

We haven’t seen the end of invasive geofence warrants just yet, despite Google’s big announcement late last year that it was fundamentally changing how it collects location data. Today, EFF is filing an amicus brief in the Minnesota Supreme Court in State v. Contreras-Sanchez, involving a warrant...