Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you're not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy. When a ...
President Trump's attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there's a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing--one that will take away Americans' right to unencumbered access to our ...
Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants--sort of. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sitting en banc issued a single sentence opinion affirming the lower court opinion in United States v. ...
We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet - records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world - and those trails usually are owned by the big corporations behind the ...
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report from the Washington Post. Now, immigration ...
Nominations are now open for the 2025 EFF Awards! The nomination window will be open until Friday, May 23rd at 2:00 PM Pacific time. You could nominate the next winner today!For over thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented awards . ...
When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell them on additional tools and upgrades. Axon has been adding AI to its repertoire, and it now features a ...
The right to repair just keeps on winning. Last week, thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong consumer electronics right-to-repair legislation through both the House and Senate. The bill affirms our ...
Simple common sense tells us that a corporation's decision to operate in every state shouldn't mean it can't be sued in most of them. Sadly, U.S. law doesn't always follow common sense. That's why we were so pleased with a recent holding from the ...
This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an ...
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law ...
