Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

The EU’s proposed Mini-ID Wallet could change how millions verify their age online-but who gets left out? Marginalized groups risk losing access to crucial services. Privacy and inclusion must be at the center of digital ID debates.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification App

This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age ve...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 months ago

Thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong consumer electronics right-to-repair legislation through both the House and Senate. If you’re in Washington State, please urge the governor to sign these important bills.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Washington’s Right to Repair Bill Heads to the Governor

The right to repair just keeps on winning. Last week, thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong co...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

Rampant use of police surveillance tech “really comes down to a question of, do we want to live in a city where all of us – all of us, not just 'criminals,' but all of us - are watched & listened to everywhere we go?” EFF's @npub1s7nq...0l5t told NBC Bay Area.

San Francisco police give tour of new investigation center – NBC Bay Area

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

“Companies are collecting so much information about us and in such covert ways that it really feels like they’re listening to us,” EFF’s Lena Cohen tells @npub19k52...l8e8 on Malwarebytes’ Lock and Code podcast.

Malwarebytes

Is your phone listening to you? (Lock and Code S06E07)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Lena Cohen about whether our phones are really listening to us to deliver ads.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

Instead of banning TikTok, "to truly reduce the supply of data that foreign adversaries can obtain, we need federal privacy legislation that limits how all companies collect and share our personal data,” EFF’s Babette Ngene told Context.

TikTok ban: What's next for app as bidding war rages? | Context by TRF

TikTok's ban is delayed again as U.S. and China negotiate buyers for app

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

Courts have rejected recent efforts to copyright parts of the law. EFF urges the Third Circuit to do the same.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Urges Third Circuit to Join the Legal Chorus: No One Owns the Law

Two appeals courts have recently rejected efforts by private parties to use copyright to restrict access to the laws that most directly affect ordi...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 months ago

News of 23andMe’s bankruptcy “should be a wake-up call for lawmakers, who must work to pass stronger comprehensive privacy protections in general and genetic-privacy protections in particular,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @npub1f38w...q4ar. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-you-should-delete-your-23andme-account-heres-the-worst-that-could-happen-if-your-dna-data-is-exposed-d33bb25f

Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 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 11 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 11 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 0 years 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 0 years 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 0 years 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year 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 1 year 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 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-...