Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender
How To Fix the Internet is a podcast mini-series from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that examines potential solutions to six ills facin...
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EFF's How to Fix the Internet
How To Fix the Internet is a podcast mini-series from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that examines potential solutions to six ills facing the modern digital landscape. Over the course of...
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Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
A new podcast from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground w...
Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of...
Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to...
Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between r...
Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capital...
Finding the Joy in Digital Security
Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe...
Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially fo...
Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digi...
Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next bi...
Love the Internet Before You Hate On It
There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The mos...
Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went o...
Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six
Now more than ever, we need to build, reinforce, and protect the tools and technology that support our freedom. EFF’s How to Fix the Interne...
Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!
EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual People's Voice competition – and we need your support t...
Rerelease - Dr. Seuss Warned Us
This episode was first released on May 2, 2023. Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his tow...
Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker
This episode was first released on March 21, 2023. The promise of the internet was that it would be a tool to melt barriers and aid truth-se...
Fighting Enshittification
The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experie...
AI in Kitopia
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s bo...
AI on the Artist’s Palette
Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something...
Chronicling Online Communities
From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting pe...