Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by mi...
End-to-end encryption is a great way to protect the privacy of your conversations, but how (or if) those chats are backed up matters too.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re no...
The Treasury Dept. and DHS have agreed to allow the IRS to share with ICE taxpayer information of certain immigrants. Weaponizing government data vital to the functioning & funding of public goods and services by repurposing it for law enforcement & surveillance is an affront to a democratic society.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust
Weaponizing government data vital to the functioning and funding of public goods and services by repurposing it for law enforcement and surveillanc...
Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map. It can reveal where you work, worship, protest, or seek healthcare—and it’s being harvested, sold, and weaponized. Lawmakers must act now to protect our privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance
Location data is highly sensitive, and without proper protections, it can be used to harm those who are already vulnerable. The digital trail we le...
Seven states have right-to-repair laws to date. If you’re in Washington, urge Gov. Ferguson to sign HB 1483 and SB 5680 and make your state the eighth to join this elite club!
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...
The U.S. mail is a vital system of communication and commerce that should not be distorted into infrastructure for dragnet surveillance.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
No Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards fi...
Police surveillance companies are jockeying for monopolization of the state surveillance market that they’re helping to build.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Beware the Bundle: Companies Are Banking on Becoming Your Police Department’s Favorite "Public Safety Technology” Vendor
When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell ...
The administration's social media surveillance is fostering a climate of fear. International students now worry a single post or "like" could cost them their U.S. visa—chilling political debate and silencing dissent for non-citizens and citizens alike.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online
The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump ad...
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation.
Choosing a Password Manager
Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that pas...
The FTC is requesting comments from social media users about online censorship. To ensure that this does not become a mechanism to justify greater governmental control over online speech, Don't Delete Art has provided a boilerplate text for you to include whole into the FTC comment page, or to add in part to your own response. www.dontdelete.art/ftc-response