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...
EFF joined four amicus briefs in support of law firms targeted by President Trump’s politically motivated, vindictive executive orders, and in all four cases, federal judges have indicated the orders are unconstitutional.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Judges Stand With Law Firms (and EFF) Against Trump’s Executive Orders
“Pernicious.” “Unprecedented... cringe-worthy.”“Egregious.”“Shocking.” These are just some of the words that federal judges used in...
The fact that both a magistrate judge and a district judge denied the government a search warrant for an Instagram account run by student protesters at Columbia University speaks to the lack of probable cause, EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @npub1s89f...rdtv.
The Intercept
How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters
New filings reveal how the FBI tried to unmask the Columbia students’ Instagram account and got blocked in court on free speech grounds.
“The thing that’s really worrisome is AI making decisions based on what it thinks people are doing,” EFF’s Dave Maass told Government Technology. “How can an algorithm suss out the dynamics of human behavior?”
GovTech
Talking Agentic AI Cameras: Can They Prevent Crime?
LiveView Technologies is releasing a new surveillance camera feature that uses AI to detect actions and determine how to proceed, in some cases pro...
Automated license plate readers don't prevent crime, they chill speech and put marginalized people at risk. Fortunately organizers in San Diego are pushing back.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance
Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city's controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city coun...
You can’t scan private messages before they’re encrypted without destroying end-to-end encryption. The EU’s new “encryption roadmap” gets that wrong.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to...
“We have to act now because governments are enthusiastic about digital ID, but if we don’t pin down these basic principles now, it’s going to be a problem later,” EFF’s @npub1qmlj...2r48 told StateScoop.
StateScoop
Privacy advocates are worried about mobile driver’s licenses | StateScoop
Dozens of privacy advocates, along with top digital rights groups, have signed onto a campaign to remove the surveillance capabilities native to mo...
The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to...
The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you.
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...
A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman “suspected of having an abortion.” The reason listed in the record: “had an abortion, search for female.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation
She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillan...