Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All

The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional

In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Platforms shouldn’t silence people for drawing attention to the influence those platforms, and other large companies, have.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards

On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Mos...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

“The UAE is an authoritarian state with a dismal human rights record and a history of using technology to spy on activists, journalists, and dissidents,” EFF’s @npub1dzv5...5v2p told @npub14lpy...ujhu, so it likely would optimize AI not for democracy but for police states.

WIRED

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI

Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Download Privacy Badger to block spying ads and invisible trackers.

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Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you l...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

As the relationship between commercial AI and the national security state becomes closer, it’s important to ask: will government secrecy make these models even less transparent and accountable?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The U.S. National Security State is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable

As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unans...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

“This is extremely suspicious behavior that normal towers do not exhibit,” EFF’s @npub13whq...4444 told @npub14lpy...ujhu. “This is not 100 percent incontrovertible truth, but it’s strong evidence suggesting a cell-site simulator was deployed.”

WIRED

Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC

Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Now that Meta is actively rolling out its content policy changes, we are deeply concerned that they will harm vulnerable people. If the company truly values free speech—and its users—it’s moving in the wrong direction.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Meta’s New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users. If It Really Valued Free Speech, It Would Make These Changes

Earlier this week, when Meta announced changes to their content moderation processes, we were hopeful that some of those changes—which we will ad...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How

Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Download Privacy Badger to block spying ads and invisible trackers.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy Badger

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Privacy Badger is @npub1eneh...uvwv's top choice for blocking trackers or ads. If you aren't already using EFF's free browser extension, here's one more reason to give it a try:

Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World

Our Favorite Ad Blockers and Browser Extensions to Protect Privacy

These free, easy-to-install browser extensions are simple add-ons that can help block ads, reduce tracking, and improve your privacy online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Surveillance Self-Defense is all about learning a security mindset, but those ideas change over time, so it’s a project we’re constantly working on improving.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Surveillance Self-Defense: 2024 in Review

This year, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Surveillance-Self Defense (SSD) guide. How’d we celebrate? We kept at it—continuing to wor...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Thousands of data breaches happen every year, but this year was a particular whirlwind of highly impactful ones that included health information, phone call records, and much, much more.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Breachies 2024: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

Privacy isn’t dead. While some information about you is almost certainly out there, that’s no reason for despair. In fact, it’s a good reason...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Bluesky has grown in popularity, but it’s still evolving. Here are some essential things to know when joining the platform.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

What You Should Know When Joining Bluesky

Bluesky promises to rethink social media by focusing on openness and user control. But what does this actually mean for the millions of people join...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Calls for the UK’s Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary to secure the release of activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah are building from many directions. They must do more to ensure Alaa’s immediate and unconditional release.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

UK Politicians Join Organizations in Calling for Immediate Release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

As the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have failed to secure the release of British-Egyptian blogger, coder, a...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

To avoid online scams, start by using two-factor authentication and a password manager, EFF’s @npub1dzv5...5v2p told the @npub1dmxj...mce9. https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/if-youre-still-overwhelmed-by-scam-emails-and-texts-join-the-growing-club/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

Meet the new KOSA, same as the old KOSA

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

The House passed H.R. 9495 last month to give the executive branch the power to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status without due process. Tell the Senate not to pass this speech-chilling legislation!

Tell Congress Not To Weaponize The Treasury Department Against Nonprofits

The House of Representatives just passed a dangerous bill that gives broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch would allow the Sec...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago

34 states have anti-SLAPP laws that protect people speaking out from being bullied by meritless litigation. It’s time for us to have such protections in federal courts as well.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

This Bill Could Put A Stop To Censorship By Lawsuit

SLAPPs aren’t designed to win on the merits, but rather to harass journalists, activists, and consumers into silence by suing them over their pro...