Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 days ago

Did you know EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense has dozens of guides on how to keep yourself secure online? Privacy and security are important for everyone. Support our work today:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Claw Back Your Privacy

Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 week ago

“At worst, we're talking about a technology that invades your privacy if an ICE or CBP officer even looks at you, but even at best, we're looking at a project that, like lots of DHS tech, just wastes taxpayer money on shiny gadgets,” EFF’s @npub1hg2u...l7re told @npub1n6lz...zmz9.

404 Media

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App

A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 weeks ago

Platforms aren’t what they promised and Big Tech is cashing in. Join us live on May 14 with Cory Doctorow and Wendy Liu to talk about how we fight back.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

This event has passed. You can watch the recording on YouTube or the Internet Archive.The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been syst...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 weeks ago

Running a Mastodon or other fediverse server? You need a DMCA plan. Here’s a starter:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Re...

#opensource #3dprinting #AB2047

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump administration tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @npub1lhms...h0pg told @npub18gnu...g0a2.

The Intercept

A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

3D Print censorship laws impose real costs and potential harms among lawful users, lay the groundwork for future and simply won’t deter firearm printing.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2

Legislators across the U.S. are proposing laws to force “print blockers” on 3D printers sold in their states. This mandated censorware is doome...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

Location records from data brokers are typically unlinked to a device owner's name, but police have tools to track where a device has gone, where it spends every night, and where it goes during working hours, EFF’s @npub1n305...9pvp told NPR. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

📢 BREAKING 📢 We're suing to get answers about Medicare's AI experiment that could affect millions of seniors' care. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1! Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data.

Encrypt It Already

Encrypt It Already

Encrypt It Already |

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrati...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data.

Encrypt It Already

Encrypt It Already

Encrypt It Already |

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

From license-plate readers to drones and cell-site simulators, ICE relies on a growing web of surveillance. Here’s how hackers are shining a light on it—and why that matters.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entere...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

AMA Alert! We launched https://EFF.org/Age, our Age Verification Resource hub, and want to talk to you about it. We’ll be on Reddit's r/privacy today, on 12/16, and on 12/17 to help you resist this censorship and surveillance nightmare. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/were_eff_and_were_fighting_to_defend_your_privacy/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

No administration should have the power to decide who gets to express themselves and who doesn’t.

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