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

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 weeks 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 | End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

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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 3 weeks ago

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

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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

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 2 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 2 months ago

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

stay loud

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 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:

stop surveillance

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 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. https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 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.

stay loud

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 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.

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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 3 months ago

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

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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 3 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.

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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 3 months ago

When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize

Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 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

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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 3 months ago

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

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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 4 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 4 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 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.”

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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...