Jason Kelley

Jan 14, 2025 | eff.org | Jason Kelley

El 14 de diciembre, James Harr, propietario de una tienda en línea llamada ComradeWorkwear, anunció en las redes sociales que planeaba vender un juego de cartas llamado "Los CEO más buscados", satirizando las tristemente célebres"El juego de cartas Los iraquíes más buscados" de la Agencia de Inteligencia de Defensa de Estados Unidos en 2003.

Jan 13, 2025 | eff.org | Jason Kelley

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that will determine whether states can violate adults’ First Amendment rights to access sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age.  The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, could have far-reaching effects for every internet users’ free speech, anonymity, and privacy rights. The Supreme Court will decide whether a Texas law, HB1181, is constitutional.

Jan 1, 2025 | eff.org | Jason Kelley

At times this year, it seemed that Congress was going to give up its duty to protect our rights online—particularly when the Senate passed the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) by a large majority in July. But this legislation, which would chill protected speech and almost certainly result in privacy-invasive age verification requirements for many users to access social media sites, did not pass the House this year, thanks to strong opposition from EFF supporters and others.

Nov 27, 2024 | eff.org | Jason Kelley

Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch. Nonprofits would not have a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves, and could be targeted without disclosing the reasons or evidence for the decision.

Oct 9, 2024 | eff.org | Mario Trujillo |Jason Kelley

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned. Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, GEDMatch, due to genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles.