“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...

The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.

The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.

A pilot program using artificial intelligence to approve care for Medicare beneficiaries has resulted in high levels of denials and delayed decisions and prompted warnings from a vendor about a lack o...

The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...

Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity...

EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

EFF is pleased to announce that Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media Rights have received 2026 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring t...

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to our TikTok or Instagram to watch! EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us through

Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of the growing tide of public opposition

U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation

Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”

Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of the growing tide of public opposition

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assistants, AI summaries, and research tools, among others. As a term, “AI” may refer to features in apps, apps themselves, third-party plug-ins, or a...

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, has launched an investigation into Flock Safety’s national surveillance network and is demand…

Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything

The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A Colleton County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant was terminated following an audit identifying misuse of the agency’s Flock Safety cameras, officials a…

As journalists are shut out of conflict zones, investigators are using satellite imagery, social media and 3D modelling to document atrocities. But evidence alone cannot deliver accountability.

A Flourish data visualization by Dhruv

Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation.

Scientific Data - City-Defined Neighborhood Boundaries in the United States

<p>On March 24, California released an updated registry of data brokers—companies in the business of collecting, inferring, aggregating, and selling people’s data</p>

As reporting near the U.S.-Mexico border grows more complex, journalists face increasing risks to their data and sources. Gretchen A. Peck reports on a new training partnership equipping reporters wit...

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