Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Strong, unique passwords are a must, and it's not as hard to accomplish as you might think.

Reusing passwords is a dangerous security practice. If someone gets ahold of your password—whether that's from a data breach, or wherever else—...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Research into adversarial watermarking for AI is just beginning, and while there’s no strong reason to believe it will succeed, there are some good reasons to believe it will ultimately fail.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation

Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably disti...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Thanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. @npub1hyku...3p33's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives.

American Dialect Society

2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY–Jan. 5—The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Privacy Badger now replaces tweets embedded in articles with a “click-to-activate" placeholder.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy Badger Puts You in Control of Widgets

The latest version of Privacy Badger replaces embedded tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. This is part of Privacy Badger's widget rep...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

The looming expiration of the Section 702 surveillance law gives us the opportunity to introduce real reforms. But the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R.6611) is a step backwards and must not pass. Tell your Congress members: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Privacy Badger's learning just got a huge upgrade. Spoiler: it's scouring the web like a swarm of wasps, devouring more trackers than ever before.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers

Today we are introducing Badger Swarm, a new tool for Privacy Badger that runs distributed Badger Sett scans in the cloud. Badger Swarm helps us co...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Take our new quiz! Guess why real students got surveilled and flagged for visiting websites from National Geographic, Washington Post, Scholastic, Wikipedia, and more, at

Red Flag Machine

GoGuardian monitors millions of students. EFF analyzed actual websites that the student monitoring tool marked as

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what exactly a #passkey is. There’s a good reason for that. We explain here:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

What the !#@% is a Passkey?

A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The passkey promises to solve phishing and prevent password reuse. But lots of sm...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

With the impending expiration of Big Brother’s favorite surveillance law, Section 702, the intelligence community will start to search for new scary problems that can be solved with mass surveillance. Don't fall for it.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Don’t Fall for the Intelligence Community’s Monster of the Week Justifications

In the beloved episodic television shows of yesteryear, the antagonists were often “monsters of the week”: villains who would show up for one e...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Jordan, UAE, Tunisia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all have surveillance and censorship laws targeting the LGTBQ+ people in violation of internationally recognized human rights. The #UNCybercrimeTreaty could help them amplify & cooperate on that persecution. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/growing-threat-cybercrime-law-abuse-lgbtq-rights-mena-and-un-cybercrime-draft #lgbtq #UN #surveillance

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

We applaud Google and Apple for taking privacy from cell-site simulators seriously. There's still more they can do to protect people, but in the meantime, here are some settings to consider changing.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough?

Cell-site simulators (CSS)—also known as IMSI Catchers and Stingrays—are a tool that law enforcement and governments use to track the location ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

A troubling policy that requires visa applicants to the U.S. to share their social media information has been upheld by a federal judge. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/federal-judge-upholds-state-department-rule-requiring-visa-applicants-disclose

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

Did you know a group of ravens is sometimes called an unkindness? Learn this and other bird facts when you pick up EFF's #DEFCON member t-shirt. Catch it before it flies away this evening.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Break Free of Tech’s Walled Gardens

Take back digital privacy and free speech. Join EFF or renew this week and get a DEF CON 33 puzzle t-shirt.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

There are about a dozen questions we have about self-driving cars and the massive amount of footage they collect. Chief among them: exactly what do police get access to when they get a warrant for footage? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/impending-privacy-threat-self-driving-cars

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 years ago

DEF CON Social

Deviant Ollam (@deviantollam@defcon.social)

Reminder to all poker players who are coming to @defcon that there's a tournament benefiting the @eff@mastodon.social which starts at noon on Frida...