GigaTap articles tagged digital rights.
- Cinemas as civic infrastructure when speech narrows - AIHRFF shows why film can matter in shrinking civic spaces: not as a magic route to policy change, but as a platform for testimony, coalition-building, and
- EFF restarts LGBT Q&A Season 2 for digital privacy questions - EFF brings back LGBT Q&A Season 2, focusing on privacy risks, surveillance exposure, and anonymous digital rights questions.
- PPE Bans Raise a Larger Risk Than Reporter Safety - Restrictions on protective gear at protests may affect more than journalists. They can reduce independent observation when public scrutiny matters most.
- DOJ Press Protection Questions Move Into Court - A new FOIA lawsuit seeks records that could reveal whether statutory protections for journalists were omitted during warrant applications.
- Who Gets to Decide Who Counts as a Journalist? - A dispute in New Jersey highlights a broader press freedom question: can police decide who qualifies for journalistic protections?
- AI Surveillance Is Becoming State Infrastructure - A cited 2026 study says 11 African governments spent more than USD 2 billion on AI-powered surveillance. The risk is not just better tools, but weaker limi
- Colorado’s AI Law Gets Weaker Before It Starts - EPIC says Colorado lawmakers again amended the state’s landmark AI law, removing important requirements and delaying its effective date.
- Recording ICE Is Protected. Retaliation Is the Risk - The ACLU says people have a First Amendment right to record ICE and other federal agents, but hundreds have reportedly faced retaliation for doing it.
- VPN bans would hit more than age-gate evasion - Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that restricting VPNs would weaken tools journalists use to research sensitive targets, protect sources, and reduce n
- AI Opt-Outs Are Starting to Look Like Data-Broker Playbooks - A new study argues that major AI providers are adopting privacy opt-out patterns long criticized in the data-broker industry. The key issue is not whether
- Statement end: why ISS World Europe now needs scrutiny - EDRi’s call to cut ties with ISS World Europe turns a surveillance trade fair into an operational due-diligence problem for public bodies, universities, an
- Why Vermont's Privacy Bill Is Facing Privacy Advocate Opposition - EPIC and Consumer Reports say Vermont's S. 71 would weaken existing privacy protections, raising questions about what the bill actually changes.
- EPIC Coalition Targets ALPR Creep With a Tolling-Only Line - EPIC and more than 40 groups are urging Congress to limit automatic license plate readers to tolling. The practical issue is purpose control, not just data
- EPIC’s Roblox FTC Call Targets Design Risk - EPIC and child safety groups asked the FTC to investigate Roblox. The operational issue is design risk: engagement loops, currency flows, and child chat ex
- What behind EU digitalisation: rights or control? - EDRi argues the EU’s digitalisation push is not just a service upgrade. The operational risk sits in identity, welfare access, health data reuse, and syste
- Czech stadium facial recognition hits a legal push back - A Prague derby security failure triggered calls for facial recognition. The push back shows why biometric systems need legal and operational checks first.
- Failed YouTube warrants exposed a wider privacy risk - Unsealed records show failed warrants targeting journalists’ YouTube accounts. The key risk is not only press freedom, but platform metadata and sealed pro
- Journalists slam Paramount deal over press-freedom risk - Journalists and filmmakers warn the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger could weaken editorial independence and concentrate control over major
- Roblox FTC complaint turns safety claims into an ops risk - EPIC says several groups backed an FTC request over Roblox child safety claims. The key issue is whether platform promises match operating reality.
- Kenya’s protest rights face continental scrutiny - ARTICLE 19 used an African Commission session to raise concerns over Kenya’s digital freedom, media freedom, and the right to peaceful assembly.
- The ACLU’s case for suing federal agents - The ACLU wants Congress to restore legal paths for people to sue federal officers and agencies when constitutional rights are allegedly violated.
- RightsCon Cancellation: A Lost Coordination Layer - RightsCon’s cancellation matters not only as an event loss, but as a blow to digital rights coordination infrastructure.
- Evidence needs an archive, not just a feed - OpenArchive’s Save app shows why mobile evidence needs privacy, provenance, redundancy, and community control before platforms or devices fail.
- Surveillance Pricing Moves Into New Jersey’s Policy Lane - EPIC backed a New Jersey bill targeting surveillance pricing. The key issue is not only data collection, but how hidden profiling can shape the price a con
- Utah’s Digital ID Has a Loyalty Problem - Utah frames digital ID as modernization, but the real issue is who the system is built to serve when access and control collide.
- ABC’s FCC Fight Is a First Amendment Test - ABC’s pushback against FCC pressure could test whether broadcasters resist regulatory jawboning or self-censor to avoid a fight.
- Exam Shutdowns Are a Bad Anti-Cheating Policy - Exam-related internet shutdowns are spreading despite thin evidence and broad social harm.
- Ireland’s Meta Probe Tests the DSA’s Real Force - Ireland is investigating whether Meta’s feed design blocks users from choosing non-profiled recommendations. The case could decide whether DSA rights becom