Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 days ago

Site-blocking isn’t just theoretically dangerous. Italy’s system blocked hundreds of innocent websites. Spain’s swept up domains belonging to Greenpeace and Harvard. Now Congress wants to bring this to the U.S.

Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs

Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-C...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 week ago

“In some ways, Axon is actually worse than Flock,” EFF's @npub1hg2u...l7re told Indy Week. “Flock never had mobile license plate cameras, and Axon does. They install them on patrol cars, and that means patrol cars become like roving data vacuums.”

The INDY

Apex Town Council Committee to Make Recommendation on Flock

Under pressure from residents, the town council is reconsidering the Apex Police Department’s contract with Flock.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago

EFF's list of ICE subpoenas only scratches the surface. We're currently suing to get more records.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies

This is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice a...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer discusses working to ensure a future of openness, security, and fundamental rights, not fear, surveillance, and centralized power. "I am proud to take the torch and help lead our EFF community forward at this pivotal time in history." 🧵

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Building Our Future Together

In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future ...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago

This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A. You asked: is being openly trans on the internet harmful in this day and age with the current political situation? EFF's answer: In short, yes. But of course it's more complicated than that.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

Last Pride, you asked us your biggest queer digital rights questions—from dating safety online to how to get your address removed from public websites. This year, LGBT Q&A is back again with more answers and resources to help you navigate the internet on your own terms.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

LGBT Q&A Season 1 Recap: Staying Safer Online

Last year during LGBTQ+ Pride month, we launched an LGBT Q...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months 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 5 months 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...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 7 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 8 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 |

Electronic Frontier Foundation 8 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 9 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 10 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 11 months ago

Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, it's important to protect our right to speak out about the government online and anywhere else.

stay loud

Take Back CTRL : Dont let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify peo...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...