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Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 days ago

Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden.

The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Re...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 week ago

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump administration tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @npub1lhms...h0pg told @npub18gnu...g0a2.

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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 week ago

3D Print censorship laws impose real costs and potential harms among lawful users, lay the groundwork for future and simply won’t deter firearm printing.

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Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2

Legislators across the U.S. are proposing laws to force “print blockers” on 3D printers sold in their states. This mandated censorware is doome...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 week ago

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)

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EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 weeks ago

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 weeks ago

Location records from data brokers are typically unlinked to a device owner's name, but police have tools to track where a device has gone, where it spends every night, and where it goes during working hours, EFF’s @npub1n305...9pvp told NPR. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 weeks ago

📢 BREAKING 📢 We're suing to get answers about Medicare's AI experiment that could affect millions of seniors' care. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit:

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EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 weeks ago

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1! Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

Electronic Frontier Foundation 0 months ago

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data.

Encrypt It Already

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrati...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data.

Encrypt It Already

Encrypt It Already |

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

From license-plate readers to drones and cell-site simulators, ICE relies on a growing web of surveillance. Here’s how hackers are shining a light on it—and why that matters.

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How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entere...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 months ago

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

AMA Alert! We launched https://EFF.org/Age, our Age Verification Resource hub, and want to talk to you about it. We’ll be on Reddit's r/privacy today, on 12/16, and on 12/17 to help you resist this censorship and surveillance nightmare. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/were_eff_and_were_fighting_to_defend_your_privacy/

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.

Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago

No administration should have the power to decide who gets to express themselves and who doesn’t.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back:

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 5 months ago

Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn for a virtual conversation with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders about their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.

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Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn

City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) d...

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