When bad patents become harder to challenge, patent trolls get more leverage. Real inventors and innovators pay the price. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents
Helping youth navigate the internet can be a daunting task, but here’s a guide to help you get started. https://ssd.eff.org/module/online-privacy-for-parents-and-youth
Whether they call it AI summaries, knowledge panels, or AMP, Google takes actions that are less about functionality and more about locking you into its own ecosystem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/google-summaries-arent-about-ai-theyre-about-lock
Tras la demanda de Epic, Google tiene que permitir tiendas de apps rivales dentro de Google Play. Más competencia significa poder irte si una tienda no protege bien tus datos. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/challengers-approach-third-party-app-stores-arrive-google-play?language=es
Las grandes tecnológicas dicen que abrir sus plataformas pone en riesgo tu seguridad. No es cierto: la mensajería cifrada entre Android e iOS demuestra que interoperabilidad y seguridad pueden convivir. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/interoperability-vs-security-why-not-both?language=es
In the case of Google Search, the company has a history of rolling out new "features" that are less helpful to the searcher and more designed to keep you and your data within the Google ecosystem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/google-summaries-arent-about-ai-theyre-about-lock
Cada vez menos gente impugna patentes malas ante la Oficina de Patentes de EE. UU., y no porque hayan mejorado. Sin una vía de revisión accesible, los troles de patentes tienen más poder contra quienes crean tecnología. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents?language=es
Any introduction of AI is a choice that must be made by schools, not Google. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/google-forcing-ai-students-bs
Your license plate may be visible to the public, but tracing your vehicles movements for days, weeks, or months is legally not the same thing as being spotted once at an intersection. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/were-asking-appeals-court-require-warrant-alpr-searches
Most AI tools require some sort of privacy sacrifice, so understanding the risk is important. https://ssd.eff.org/module/privacy-considerations-with-ai-tools
Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/tech-companies-are-trying-shift-entire-concept-privacy-again
Policymakers cannot take tech giants’ claims at face value. Companies have every incentive to resist interoperability and raise costs for switching to a competing services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/interoperability-vs-security-why-not-both
Google activó Gemini en Classroom y puso a las escuelas ante un ultimátum: o aceptan la IA o dejan Google. Para la EFF, decidir si se usa IA en el aula corresponde a docentes y escuelas, no a Google. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/google-forcing-ai-students-bs?language=es
What happens when the government outsources medical treatment approval to private AI companies? Find out more with our latest issue of EFFector: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/medicares-ai-experiment-effector-3820
Tune into the latest EFFector podcast: "We Sued for Answers on Medicare's AI Experiment."
This time, we're talking about what happens when the government outsources treatment approval to private AI companies—without sufficient transparency, testing, or legal limits.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/medicares-ai-experiment-effector-3820
Axon might be scarier than Flock, EFF’s @maassive told @Fresnoland. “They work off of the relationships they built with body-worn cameras and TASERs and Evidence.com," leverage that to try to get the ALPR contract, "and then they want all of that to be integrated together.” https://fresnoland.org/2026/11/11/fresno-drops-flock-but-will-the-next-company-be-any-different-heres-what-experts-say/
Given the U.S. Postal Service's activities (as reported by EFF as a result of our lawsuit), “it's probably safest to assume that all government agencies eventually get around to treating Americans as potential threats to be spied upon,” Reason concludes. https://reason.com/2026/11/11/documents-reveal-the-postal-services-broad-surveillance-of-political-activists/
Congress created inter partes review (IPR) to give people a faster, cheaper way to challenge bad patents. But USPTO leadership is making that process difficult to use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents
We sued for answers on Medicare's AI experiment. What we found were problems on top of problems.
Learn more with the latest EFFector newsletter and podcast: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/medicares-ai-experiment-effector-3820