Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.
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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...
Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there.
How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint
Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like ad...
“This is probably the worst thing in my view that has ever happened to our rights online,” EFF’s @npub1f03m...sn7d tells David Ruiz on Malwarebytes’ Lock and Code podcast, discussing the security and privacy risks of online age verification.
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“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (Lock and Code S06E16)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with EFF Activism Director Jason Kelley about online age verification and the "grey web."
Using genAI instead of paying creatives? Beware: "It's pretty clear that if you create something that's substantially similar to a copyrighted work that an infringement has occurred, unless it's for a fair use purpose," EFF’s @npub1y6tq...20dd told The Register.
GenAI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business
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Tell companies to stop tracking you by installing Privacy Badger today!
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Privacy Badger
The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host con...
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There's still a lot of work to do to improve Bluetooth tracker detection, but for now, here's how to detect them automatically and search for them manually.
How to: Detect Bluetooth Trackers
On May 13, 2024, both Apple and Google announced they’d start supporting cross-platform operating system-level notifications for some third-party...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host con...