At a Senate subcommittee hearing, safety advocates decried the lack of federal action to protect Americans from fast-evolving AI-enabled threats.

With doomsday AI scenarios dominating the news, lawmakers are rightly concerned about reports concerning security breaches at major US AI labs, such as the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and the many ot...

Some of WhatsApp's most useful security features are not enabled by default. You'll need to actively go in and set them up yourself (and ask your contacts to do the same!). Download location: Google Play Store or Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 15.1 or later...

En un nuevo golpe contra las garantías legales de Ola Bini, las autoridades ecuatorianas retuvieron ayer en Quito al desarrollador de software libre y experto en seguridad, y ordenaron su deportación

Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to

People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...

Former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetFormer EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights....

NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move

Keeping up on all of the information surrounding privacy and free speech on the internet can be challenging whether trying to educate someone in your life, providing resources to your community, or

If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store. And if you are a developer, you

The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from their Flock Safety system with out-of-state and ...

Protesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras.

In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our

Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems

Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.

With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? In our latest EFFector

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

Technology should empower people, not control them. In 2025, that core belief faced unprecedented challenges. But with the support of our members, donors, partners, and communities, we fought back and...

BSidesNYC (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will present the keynote speech on the Red Track (L.63) at 9:15 AM.EFF is excited to be at BSidesNYC for the first ...

People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...

Former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetFormer EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights....

Arizona is one of six states nationwide in a pilot program for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? In our latest EFFector

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

Support EFF and get a custom Spirit of a Cyborg bookplate! I’m using the release of my book, The Spirit of a Cyborg, to try to raise some money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which i…

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