How to Fix the Internet
Episodes
Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cindy Cohn...
Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 where tomor...
Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fre...
Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 decipher t...
Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and...
Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that...
Finding the Joy in Digital Security
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure...
Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to d...
Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secu...
Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 big thing fi...
Love the Internet Before You Hate On It
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 most effect...
Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 or want t...
Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Internet return...
Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 to ...
Rerelease - Dr. Seuss Warned Us
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 town’s o...
Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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-seekers e...
Fighting Enshittification
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. T...
AI in Kitopia
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both trans...
AI on the Artist’s Palette
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and ...
Chronicling Online Communities
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting people all o...
Building a Tactile Internet
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an on...
Right to Repair Catches the Car
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 it, i...
Anti-Trust/Pro-Internet
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make go...
About Face (Recognition)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 internet ...
"I-Squared" Governance
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government do...
Open Source Beats Authoritarianism
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, and everyon...
Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Five
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 conversations...
Rerelease: Securing the Vote
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Verified Voting, s...
Who Inserted the Creepy?
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writers sit watching a stranger’s search engine terms being typed in real time, a voyeuristic peek into that person’s most private thoughts. A wom...
People with Disabilities are the Original Hackers
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 interact ...
Dr. Seuss Warned Us
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 will ...
Safer Sex Work Makes a Safer Internet
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone. Though the effects of stigmatization and criminalization run deep,...
Losing Until We Win: Realistic Revolution in Science Fiction
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a science-fiction villain is defeated, we often see the heroes take their victory lap and then everyone lives happily ever after. But that’s no...
So You Think You're a Critical Thinker
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 has worsened...
Making the Invisible Visible
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would the internet look like if it weren't the greatest technology of mass surveillance in the history of mankind? Trevor Paglen wonders about th...
The Right to Imagine Your Own Future
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 implants...
When Tech Comes to Town
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 – from t...
Don’t Be Afraid to Poke the Tigers
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can a bustling electronic components bazaar in Shenzhen, China, tell us about building a better technology future? To researcher and hacker Andre...
Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season 4
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures — from tracking-based surveillan...
Wordle and the Web We Need
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 how the...
Securing the Vote
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 glitchy to...
An AI Hammer in Search of a Nail
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It often feels like machine learning experts are running around with a hammer, looking at everything as a potential nail - they have a system that doe...
The Philosopher King
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Computer scientists often build algorithms with a keen focus on “solving the problem,” without considering the larger implications and potential m...
Teaching AI to Its' Targets
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Too many young people – particularly young people of color – lack enough familiarity or experience with emerging technologies to recognize how art...
Making Hope
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The joy of tinkering, making, and sharing is part of the human condition. In modern times, this creative freedom too often is stifled by secrecy as a ...
Your Tax Dollars at Work
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy means allowing everyday people to have their voices heard on public matters involving their communities. One of the goals of civic technolog...
Securing the Internet of Things
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the “Internet of Things” may not ...
Hack to the Future
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 everything he cou...
Watching the Watchers
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine being detained by armed agents whenever you returned from traveling outside the country. That’s what life became like for Academy Award-winn...
Reimagining the Internet
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, and we thou...
Saving Podcasts From A Patent Troll
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Maron is the host of a successful podcast, and when he and some other pioneers started out he didn’t have to think much about the layers of tec...
Data Doppelgängers
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if we re-imagined the internet to be built by more people, in new ways, that actually worked for us as a public good instead of a public harm? Jo...
How Private is Your Bank Account?
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Financial transactions reveal so much about us: the causes we support, where we go, what we buy, who we spend time with. Somehow, the mass surveillanc...
Algorithms for a Just Future
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the supposed promises of AI was that it would be able to take the bias out of human decisions, and maybe even lead to more equity in society. B...
The Life of the (Crypto) Party
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Mitchell started Crypto Harlem to teach people in his community about how online and real life surveillance works, and what they could do about i...
A Better Future With Secret Codes
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t always think about what it means to have the information on our devices stay secure, and it may seem like the locks on our phones are enoug...
Pay a Hacker, Save a Life
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are flaws in the tech we use everyday- from little software glitches to big data breaches, and security researchers often know about them before...
Who Controls Online Speech?
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The bots that try to moderate speech online are doing a terrible job, and the humans in charge of the biggest tech companies aren’t doing any better...
The Revolution Will Be Open Source
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Open source software touches every piece of technology that touches our lives- in other words, it’s everywhere. Free software and collaboration is a...
What Police Get When They Get Your Phone
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your phone is a window to your soul - and that window has been left open to law enforcement. Today, even small-town police departments have powerful t...
Introducing, How to Fix the Internet
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How to Fix the Internet from the Electronic Frontier Foundation brings you ideas, solutions, and pathways to a better digital future for all.
Pilot Part 6: You Bought It, But Do You Own It?
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lewis joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how our access to knowledge is increasingly governed by "click-wrap" agreem...
Pilot Part 5: From Your Face to Their Database
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abi Hassen joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss the rise of facial recognition technology, how this increasingly powerful id...
Pilot Part 4: Control Over Users, Competitors, and Critics
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Doctorow joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how large, established tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook ca...
Pilot Part 3: Closing a Loophole in the 4th Amendment
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jumana Musa joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how the third-party doctrine is undermining our Fourth Amendment right to p...
Pilot Part 2: Why Does My Internet Suck
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gigi Sohn joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss broadband access in the United States – or the lack thereof. Gigi explains ...
Pilot Part 1: The Secret Court Approving Secret Surveillance
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of EFF's "How to Fix the Internet" podcast, the Cato Institute’s specialist in surveillance legal policy, Julian Sanchez, j...