Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia said on an New York University panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”

Washington Square News

NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News

“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and key...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

It's our time to say thanks to the EFF members that support our work year-round. Join us for a semi-secret Speakeasy on October 25 in Portland!

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Members' Speakeasy: Portland 2025

Join EFF staff and local online rights supporters for a Speakeasy meet up on Saturday, October 25 in Portland, Oregon at 10 Barrel Brewing!Raise a ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @npub1hyku...3p33 writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

Join EFF today and help us: - Push back against government surveillance 📸 - Protect end-to-end encryption 🔐 - Create technologies to keep you safe online 🧑‍💻 Your support makes this work possible. Donate today! https://eff.org/join

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

Many of these issues would be mitigated by doing what the competition is already doing: encrypting the broadcasts from its Bluetooth trackers.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere

In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

It's time "for all of the fans, who go to Madison Square Garden and don't like what this spoiled rich kid is doing with his surveillance panopticon, to call their city council members and...their state legislators,” EFF’s @npub1wfn0...j5jr told The New York Groove.

The New York Groove

How MSG became Maximum Spy Garden under Knicks owner James Dolan

For 25 years, MSG has been shot through with a 'culture of paranoia' that stems straight from the owner's box

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why.

Why Communication Metadata Matters

As its name suggests, metadata is data about data. Metadata is used in a variety of contexts, often for cataloging information, like tagging keywor...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

It’s no secret that AI models—including gen AI—tend to discriminate against racial and gender minorities. When government agencies start using biased AI to make decisions, real people suffer.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare

A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI comp...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

The 4th Amendment matters in the digital age. Michigan Supreme Court joins a growing consensus: warrants for cell phones must be limited in scope.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions

When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your d...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

“There’s a lack of imagination for the worst case scenario,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Government Technology News. The only way to definitively keep this data from those who aren't supposed to have it is by not collecting and storing it in the first place.

GovTech

D.C. Takeover Shows How Cities Can Lose Control of Surveillance

D.C.'s new Real-Time Crime Center is the front line in a quiet battle over who controls the police department's surveillance data. While the federa...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

“Your driver's license contains a ton of somewhat immutable information about you” like your name, address, DOB, and face, EFF’s Lisa Femia told The Tennessean. It's not like a credit card number that can be replaced if it's leaked.

Age verification laws: protecting kids or restricting speech?

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

SAY NO TO WALLED GARDENS 🚫 EFF fights for your rights to privacy and free speech with 35+ years of expertise. From courtooms to codebases, we're protecting your future online. Support our work today!

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 6 months ago

Age verification has arrived in the UK and, to no one’s surprise, users hate it. We cannot accept these censorship regimes as our new norm.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustr...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

There's still a lot of work to do to improve Bluetooth tracker detection, but for now, here's how to detect them automatically and search for them manually.

How to: Detect Bluetooth Trackers

On May 13, 2024, both Apple and Google announced they’d start supporting cross-platform operating system-level notifications for some third-party...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

Age verification is here, and now UK Redditors can’t access their favorite LGBTQ+, political, or public health communities without destroying their anonymity. Help us fight to avoid this future.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustr...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

Today at 13:30 on Track 1 @ #DEFCON 33: Senior Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin will be covering the latest EFF tool, Rayhunter and how it works.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF at DEF CON 33

EFF's excited to be back for another DEF CON with a membership booth in the Vendor area, a contest, and a bunch of talks. Be sure to catch us ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

EFF joins dozens of organizations in expressing grave concern over the unprecedented decision by the United States government to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.

7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement

Hamleh - Civil society urges end to sanctions on UNSR Francesca Albanese, demands big tech accountability for violations in Palestine

Joint statement: Civil society urges end to sanctions on UNSR Francesca Albanese, demands big tech accountability for violations in Palestine

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

Put down the razor (and gather your EFF donations). The @npub14qsg...qwuh Beard and Mustache Contest is back this Saturday at 10 am. Clean-shaven people welcome.

DEF CON® Hacking Conference - Contests

DEF CON 33 Contests

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name

EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political r...