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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...

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director...

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...

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...

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...

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between r...

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capital...

Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe...

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially fo...

Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experie...

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...

Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something...

From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting pe...

Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to ac...

If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify...

Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online...

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...

Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, gov...

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, a...

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 conve...

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 Verifie...

Writers sit watching a stranger’s search engine terms being typed in real time, a voyeuristic peek into that person’s most private thoughts....

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...

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...

An internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone. Though the effects of stigmatization and criminalization...

When a science-fiction villain is defeated, we often see the heroes take their victory lap and then everyone lives happily ever after. But t...

The promise of the internet was that it would be a tool to melt barriers and aid truth-seekers everywhere. But it feels like polarization ha...

What would the internet look like if it weren't the greatest technology of mass surveillance in the history of mankind? Trevor Paglen wonder...

Too often we let the rich and powerful dictate what technology’s future will be, from Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse to Elon Musk’s neural impl...

When a tech company moves to your city, the effects ripple far beyond just the people it employs. It can impact thousands of ancillary jobs...

What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and ha...

It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures — from tracking-based surve...

Where is the internet we were promised? It feels like we’re dominated by megalithic, siloed platforms where users have little or no say over...

U.S. democracy is at an inflection point, and how we administer and verify our elections is more important than ever. From hanging chads to...

It often feels like machine learning experts are running around with a hammer, looking at everything as a potential nail - they have a syste...

Computer scientists often build algorithms with a keen focus on “solving the problem,” without considering the larger implications and poten...

Too many young people – particularly young people of color – lack enough familiarity or experience with emerging technologies to recognize h...

The joy of tinkering, making, and sharing is part of the human condition. In modern times, this creative freedom too often is stifled by sec...

Democracy means allowing everyday people to have their voices heard on public matters involving their communities. One of the goals of civic...

Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” ma...

Like many young people, Zach Latta went to a school that didn't teach any computer classes. But that didn’t stop him from learning everythin...

Imagine being detained by armed agents whenever you returned from traveling outside the country. That’s what life became like for Academy Aw...

Our guest from Season 2, Ethan Zuckerman, has his own podcast: Reimagining the Internet. He had EFF's Jillian York as a guest on his show, a...