The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have.
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...
The more pressure platforms and websites face to age-gate services, the more radically it could change people's relationships with the internet, EFF’s @npub124we...wttl told @Ars Technica.
Ars Technica
YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say
Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.
Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fourth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at #DEFCON hosted by security expert @Tarah Wheeler. Join us on August 8 at the Planet Hollywood Poker Room and take home a custom EFF deck of playing cards!
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Betting on Your Digital Rights
The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is held annually on Friday afternoon during DEF CON in Las Vegas. Each buy-in is paired with a donation to support...
"Any initiative that proposes to collect sensitive data, particularly vast amounts of health information and medical records, must ensure that no one uses that information in ways people don't expect," EFF’s @npub186u8...3pgj told The Register.
Trump officials float plans for easier medical data-sharing
: Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands
The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the gove...
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is an open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of techni...
A bar hosted a drag show. Now Florida wants a list of names.
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...
We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights.
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to surveillance. And it absolutely should not 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...