We’ve covered eight tips so far in #OptOutOctober but there’s still plenty of time to catch up and take back some of your privacy.
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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...
License plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars, but records have now shown that they're being used in abortion investigations. States must ban law enforcement from using ALPRs to investigate healthcare decisions and prohibit sharing data across state lines.
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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation...
Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...
Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure.
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Sur...
Want an introduction to digital surveillance, and how to protect your communications with others? Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense write-up.
Communicating With Others
Telecommunication networks and the internet have made communicating with people easier than ever, but have also made surveillance more prevalent. W...
Huge thanks to the Roxie Theater for partnering with us on last night's screening of 1984! And thank you to everyone who came out to support EFF, chat with us, and enjoy Orwell's classic on the big screen 👁️
If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips.
Want a security starter pack?
Start from the beginning with a selection of simple steps. Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us...
Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...
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Newly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: A Texas sheriff’s office used license plate readers while investigating a woman’s self-managed abortion, not to find a “missing person."
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation...
“If (AI crime prediction is) paired with invasive technologies such as face recognition, which itself reflects biases and makes errors that have led to false arrests, the potential harm is exponential," EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Mashable.
Mashable
AI-powered security systems invite 'Minority Report' comparisons
Proponents suggest the tech could revolutionize safety, while others worry about surveillance.