For Syrian users, the lifting of tech sanctions is more than a bureaucratic change—it’s a door, long closed, beginning to open.
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A New Digital Dawn for Syrian Tech Users
U.S. sanctions on Syria have for several decades not only restricted trade and financial transactions, they’ve also severely limited Syrians’ a...
Safety matters—but so do privacy, access to information, and the fundamental rights of all users. Online safety for young people must not come at the expense of rights. Read our recent submission to the European Commission here:
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Protecting Minors Online Must Not Come at the Cost of Privacy and Free Expression
Safety matters—but so do privacy, access to information, and the fundamental rights of all users. We urge the Commission to avoid endorsing dispr...
ICE Block “is not uploading your location at all, when you make a report that report isn’t associated with your device in any way, and there are no third party services that it talks to or sends data to,” EFF’s @Exploit Code Not People told @404 Media.
404 Media
Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds
The app, which jumped to the top of an App Store chart, lets users report sightings of ICE officials.
Hackers unite! We're excited to see some of you wearing this limited NSA Eagle badge at #DEFCON33. Help EFF fight dystopia and grab one for yourself today!
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Support digital privacy at DEF CON 33 with a custom PCB badge featuring the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) iconic NSA Eagle!
“We’re proud to be a place that is safe for immigrants, people seeking abortion, & people who are seeking gender-affirming healthcare,” EFF’s [@Adam_D_Schwartz](
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SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a ...
Over the last 39 months, a data broker harvested 1 billion flight records from commercial airline customers, and sold it to border guards and ICE.
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Data Brokers are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. Th...
“A lot of our privacy … rests on tech companies saying ‘no’ ... when the government comes with an illegal order,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told Mercury News. If they don’t, “it can really empower the government to do a lot of surveillance and a lot of repression.”
Taves: Silicon Valley tech CEOs becoming Trump's hostages. Be afraid.
A year after he threatened to jail Zuckerberg for life, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Meta reveal alarming signs of submission
EFF has talked to public defenders who worry how the proliferation of AI-generated police reports is "going to affect cross-examination" by potentially giving cops an easy scapegoat when accused of lying on the stand, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @Ars Technica.
Ars Technica
Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used
AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.
EFF has filed a brief with a Virginia appeals court explaining that police can’t make search engines hand over information about every user that looks up certain terms.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword
Online queries can give insight into our private details and innermost thoughts, but police increasingly access them without adhering to longstandi...
“Whenever you have a lot of very personal data like that, it usually ends up becoming a target for someone, whether that is hackers, bad actors who want to compromise your device, or even law enforcement,” EFF's Matthew Guariglia told The Cut about wearables.
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Can RFK Jr. Track My Oura Ring?
The HHS secretary says he wants all Americans to start wearing health-tracking devices. Here’s what that might mean for your private data.