Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain info...
If you thought going to a Pride event or drag show was just another night out, think again. If you were in Florida, it might land your name in a government database.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name
EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political r...
Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance
The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to ...
Canada’s Bill C-2 is a Trojan horse, being pushed to align with U.S. surveillance demands. EFF joins the CCLA, OpenMedia & Citizen Lab in saying: Withdraw it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillanc
Strong, unique passwords are a must, and it's not as hard to accomplish as you might think.
Creating Strong Passwords
Reusing passwords is a dangerous security practice. If someone gets ahold of your password—whether that's from a data breach, or wherever else—...
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35 Years for Privacy & Free Speech
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The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for government review. This mass surveillance is an outrageous violation of privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa
The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department r...
President Trump’s AI action plan “seeks to require that 'the government only contracts with' developers who meet the administration's ideological criteria," EFF’s @April Kit Walsh told Nextgov/FCW.
Nextgov.com
White House unveils AI action plan targeting regulation and ‘ideological bias’
The Trump administration’s goal is to make the U.S. a pro-AI innovation economy, relying on less bureaucratic barriers and open-source models to ...
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you.
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the ...
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We're Envisioning A Better Future
From people soaring through the sky, to space cats, geometric unicorns, and (so many) mechas—our team is always imagining what the future could l...