Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats. Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences.

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android:...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

The USPTO is making it harder to challenge bad patents. That’s great for patent trolls—terrible for everyone else.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released Feb...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

Is there hope for social media? Watch live on March 20 as EFF's David Greene and Jillian York speak with panelists from Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill. eff.org/livestream-socialmedia

Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

“If companies are violating the law, you should be able to sue them,” EFF’s @npub15hw0...28yt told Source New Mexico. “People should be empowered to be their own privacy enforcers. They have a sense of what the costs are to them and their privacy the best." https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/13/big-tech-lobbies-new-mexico-for-ag-backed-bill/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 9 months ago

“In countries with authoritarian leanings like China, stringent government controls over data flows are twisted into tools of censorship, surveillance, and repression,” EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez told @npub1lyqj...c6u4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/09/meta-china-censorship-facebook-mark-zuckerberg/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of techni...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

Being able to access information about abortion online is more vital than ever – and yet content is being taken down and advocates are having their accounts banned. It’s time for Big Tech to #StopCensoringAbortion.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Stop Censoring Abortion: Documenting Social Media Suppression of Reproductive Health Information

When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather d...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

EFF is at #RightsCon25 and we're showing our support for Alaa Abd El Fattah. Read more about Alaa's story and take action:

#FreeAlaa

Freedom For /

Information about author, Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his sister, Sanaa Seif - both imprisoned in Egypt.

#FreeAlaa

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

EFF’s @npub10pum...tcws joined Tech Policy Press’ Sunday Show to discuss the first systemic risk assessments and independent audit reports from Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines produced in compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act.

Tech Policy Press

Evaluating the First Systemic Risk and Audit Reports Under the Digital Services Act | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Ramsha Jahangir hosts a discussion featuring Hillary Ross, Magdalena Jozwiak, and Svea Windwehr.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

DOJ officials from cybercrime division and FBI were part of team that sought to significantly narrow one of the most important laws for free speech online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech

Update: The Department of Justice released additional documents in this case in April. You can read them here. The entire set of documents released...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DO...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

T-MINUS ONE HOUR UNTIL EFF'S LIVESTREAM 🚀 Join us at 10 AM pacific time for a discussion about your rights to privacy and free expression under Trump and the 119th Congress:

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months 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 11 months ago

Download Privacy Badger to block spying ads and invisible trackers.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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 11 months 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 11 months 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 ...