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The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fight Surveillance and Protect Free Speech Protect digital privacy and free expression. EFF's public interest legal work, activism, and software development preserve fundamental rights. EFF is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax ID #04-3091431.

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Speaking Freely: Shin Yang Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an

"Speech is freaking messy. Once you turn messy human speech into rules that scale, nuance gets flattened. And minority communities usually pay first." From Taiwanese writer and open-source platform builder Shin Yang in new Speaking Freely interview: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

People are selling your home address online. This privacy tool will help There's a free automated tool that removes information about you from Google search results. For some reason, most people don't use it.

“Google is so ubiquitous and it is so easy to use, it's pretty helpful to get rid of the worst, most obvious stuff. You're peeling off the first layer of information that's easy to find," EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told BBC News of Google’s Results About You.

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EFF's director Cindy Cohn has been driven by a fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Get a copy of her new book Privacy's Defender when you join EFF today. supporters.eff.org/donate/join...

EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit urging the court to requir...

EFF has joined up with @aclu.org to once again tell a federal appellate court that evidence cannot be derived from warrantless searches of electronic devices at airports and the border.

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The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over...

The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.

EFF’s Cindy Cohn’s new book, Privacy’s Defender, hits shelves on March 10th! Hear from Cindy as she talks about the book and her journey advocating for civil liberties in the digital age on Law and Disorder Radio. lawanddisorder.org/2026/03/law...

San Francisco cop used license plate reader data to find wife’s stolen car: report In the latest abuse of Flock cameras, the officer posted images of the car on Instagram.

ALPRs are “incredibly ripe for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @SFstandard.com. “No matter how many legal or bureaucratic guardrails you put on those searches, officers are going to find a way to use it for their own personal reasons.” sfstandard.com/2026/02/27/...

First keynote announced for BSides Prague 2026 🎉

Eva Galperin (@evacide.bsky.social), Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is joining us!

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Privacy's Defender: Book Launch Party On Thursday, March 12th, celebrate the launch of Privacy's Defender by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. The highly anticipated book asks the fundamental question: Can we still have private

Hey Berkeley! 👋 Join us on March 12th to celebrate the launch of Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn. RSVP today! www.eff.org/event/priva...

World IDs could present tempting targets for theft if they become widely adopted, EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @WSJ.com. “You can’t change your iris if someone does manage to get ahold of that information.” www.wsj.com/tech/sam-al...

Are New Police Drone Programs A Big Help Or Big Brother? - Law360 Police are increasingly using drones as first responders to 911 calls, a practice they say helps them respond to crises much faster with far fewer officers, but that privacy advocates warn could lead to mass, warrantless surveillance.

"These drones are basically being pushed as flying cops, but a cop is not allowed to just take a peek in my backyard whenever they want,"EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @law360.bsky.social, nor are they “allowed to just be taking notes about what's going on in a private space."www.law360.com/articles/24...

MediaDailyNews: FTC Endorses Age-Verification Tech Web companies can collect personal information from young children in order to verify their ages, the FTC said this week in a new policy statement.

The FTC’s new policy on age verification "will allow businesses to do more of what they want to do, which is vacuum up young people's information," EFF’s Adam Schwartz told MediaPost. "It's a threat to privacy to force people to upload this information." www.mediapost.com/publication...

SIREN and CAIR-CA v. San Jose The San Jose Police Department has blanketed the city’s roadways with nearly five hundred Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The police department uses this unblinking surveillance network to

Above all, the California Constitution requires the city to get a warrant before searching its ALPR data, which is what @sirenimmigration.bsky.social and CAIR-California seek in their lawsuit against San Jose, represented by EFF and @aclu-norcal.bsky.social. www.eff.org/cases/siren...

San Jose moves to curb license plate reader data amid fears of federal access The move comes as civil rights groups warn the surveillance data could aid federal immigration enforcement.

San Jose’s proposed ALPR policy changes are “extremely limited reforms that fall far short of what is necessary,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @MercuryNews.com, and could easily be reversed. “A better solution is to simply turn these cameras off.” www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/26/...

How to Pick Your Password Manager Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There

In recent years, the built-in password managers in browsers and operating systems have come a long way. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages It’s also planning a review of the underlying children’s online privacy rule.

“Age-checking-related data collection poses the very threats that COPPA is designed to address, and we have already seen age estimation systems having issues with data breaches and leaks,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. www.theverge.com/policy/8855...

“They claim they might be looking for smugglers or … cartel members, but that’s not who they’re collecting data on,” EFF’s @Maassive.bsky.social told @CalMatters.org. “(The program) is primarily collecting data on people who live in the region.” calmatters.org/justice/202...

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The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

The U.S. government on Wednesday shut down a vital resource for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools its agencies are buying, making it harder to reliably find out how agencies including ICE are spending taxpayers’ dollars. www.404media.co/the-governm...

Política de EFF sobre contribuciones asistidas por LLM a nuestros Recientemente hemos introducido una política que regula las contribuciones asistidas por modelos de lenguaje grandes (LLM) a los proyectos de código abierto de la EFF. En la EFF, nos esforzamos por

La IA y el código abierto se cruzan cada vez más. Si te interesa el desarrollo de software, revisa la nueva política de la EFF sobre cómo están manejando las contribuciones asistidas por modelos de lenguaje (LLM) en sus proyectos de Open Source:
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Flock Safety y el sheriff de Texas afirmaron que la búsqueda de Los nuevos documentos y registros judiciales obtenidos por la EFF muestran que los agentes de Texas consultaron los datos de vigilancia de Flock Safety en una investigación sobre un aborto, lo que

Bajo la falsa excusa de buscar a una "persona desaparecida", un sheriff en Texas abusó de la red de cámaras de lectura de matrículas para perseguir a una mujer que buscaba un aborto. Un ejemplo alarmante de cómo la tecnología de vigilancia se usa en nuestra contra.
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Speaking Freely: Yazan Badran Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo research group. His research focuses on the

Our most recent Speaking Freely interview, with Yazan Badran, delves into the state of journalism in Syria and the country’s possible digital future. Stay tuned, our next interview is coming soon! www.eff.org/pages/speak...

Cómo elegir tu gestor de contraseñas El phishing y las filtraciones de datos son una constante en Internet. La mejor defensa contra ambos es utilizar un gestor de contraseñas para generar y rellenar automáticamente una contraseña única

¿Sigues usando la misma contraseña para todo? ¡Es hora de un cambio! Elegir un buen gestor de contraseñas es el primer paso para blindar tu vida digital. Aquí te dejamos una guía muy práctica para elegir el ideal para ti:
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The clock is ticking! Goodreads is doing a giveaway for Privacy's Defender, a novel from EFF's Cindy Cohn that gives insight into the most pivotal legal disputes that shaped the Internet. You have 8 days to enter and get the chance to win a free copy! www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...