Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, it's important to protect our right to speak out about the government online and anywhere else.

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Take Back CTRL : Dont let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify peo...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Joint Statement on the UN Cybercrime Convention: EFF and Global Partners Urge Governments Not to Sign

EFF and a coalition of civil society organizations have urged UN Member States not to sign the UN Convention Against Cybercrime. For those that mov...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Science Must Decentralize

Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers i...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going

Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disob...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Passionate about tech and freedom? Join EFF's legal internship program and work on cutting-edge digital freedom issues!

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Legal Internship Opportunities

Applications for the Summer 2026 Intern Class are now closed. We will begin accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Intern Class on May 15, with a...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.

Attending a Protest

For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ev...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 months ago

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest. https://eff.org/rayhunter.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 8 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 8 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...