Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 days 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 4 days 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:

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 5 days 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 week 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 1 month 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 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 |

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month 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.

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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 2 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.

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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 2 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 3 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 4 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 4 months ago

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

stay loud

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back:

stop surveillance

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn for a virtual conversation with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders about their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.

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Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn

City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) d...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 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 4 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.

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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 4 months ago

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

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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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.

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Joint Statement on the UN Cybercrime Convention: EFF and Global Partners Urge Governments Not to Sign

EFF and a coalition of civil society organizations have urged UN Member States not to sign the UN Convention Against Cybercrime. For those that mov...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek

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Science Must Decentralize

Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers i...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek

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Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going

Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disob...