BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional.
This is an enormous victory for privacy.
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"Normalizing the surveillance is like normalizing a violation of our rights,” EFF’s told KRNV’s . Instead, EFF and are normalizing transparency through FOIA requests and the Atlas of Surveillance project.
BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg icann.org/news/blog/ican
The FCC's decision to abandon its traditional role in protecting an open and free Internet will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in Internet policy history.
We will fight in the courts, in the states, and in Congress to restore #NetNeutrality.
BREAKING: In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals.
That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum.
Tumblr's new "adult content" filter is so bad at its job, it flagged Tumblr's own examples of acceptable nudity
BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook.
Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA.
The Internet lost a hero today. EFF is mourning the loss of our visionary co-founder, John Perry Barlow.
It is worth reflecting on just how wildly unsupported by the public and wrong the FCC is on its effort to end an Open Internet. #NetNeutrality (1/16)
We've received documents that confirm:
- Best Buy gave the FBI a tour of their repair facility
- The FBI paid Geek Squad employees as informants
- FBI agents have a process for investigating & prosecuting people who sent their devices to the Geek Squad
A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web.
Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit x.com/settings/grok_ and uncheck the checkbox.
Victory! The Senate agreed with millions of Americans and voted to keep #NetNeutrality protections. Now we need to get the House to do the same. Visit act.eff.org/action/tell-co now to call your Representatives.
Police used DNA and probability software to invent a likely face for a subject and then put that fake face through face recognition software. This is policing done by pure chance and it's beyond dangerous.
Facebook has been using contact information that users explicitly provided for two-factor authentication—or that users never provided at all—for targeted advertising.
This weekend, used a bogus copyright notice to take down our tweet about THEIR bogus copyright notice to , who had the audacity to report on leaked episodes of TV shows.
Say it with us: It's Not Infringement To Report On Infringement.
No product should ever come with a secret microphone, regardless of whether or not it's enabled. That's just bad security design, @Nest. csoonline.com/article/333622
EFF is disappointed by the latest draft of the American Data Privacy Protection Act, or the ADPPA, a federal comprehensive data privacy bill. While we are still digesting the 132-page version released yesterday, we have three initial objections.
BREAKING: Europe’s MEPs cave to lobbyists, ignore five million online petitioners, hundreds of thousands of protesters, and approve #article13 and #article11. Find out what happens to the disastrous Copyright Directive next:
A judge has granted the first known warrant for law enforcement to conduct a dragnet search through the DNA of 1.3 million people in the GEDmatch genetic genealogy database.
86% of those users did not explicitly consent to law enforcement searches.
An infinite loop is not a crime.
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