Privacy Badger's learning just got a huge upgrade. Spoiler: it's scouring the web like a swarm of wasps, devouring more trackers than ever before. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/privacy-badger-learns-block-ever-more-trackers
Take our new quiz! Guess why real students got surveilled and flagged for visiting websites from National Geographic, Washington Post, Scholastic, Wikipedia, and more, at https://www.redflagmachine.org
Lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what exactly a #passkey is. There’s a good reason for that. We explain here: https://www.eff.org/what-is-a-passkey
With the impending expiration of Big Brother’s favorite surveillance law, Section 702, the intelligence community will start to search for new scary problems that can be solved with mass surveillance. Don't fall for it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/dont-fall-intelligence-communitys-monster-week-justifications
Users are rightly frustrated with large platforms' often perplexing content moderation decisions. But government mandates to carry certain speech do not solve the issue and they violate the First Amendment. https://www.eff.org/document/netchoice-v-paxton-eff-amicus-brief-oct-8-2021
Jordan, UAE, Tunisia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all have surveillance and censorship laws targeting the LGTBQ+ people in violation of internationally recognized human rights. The #UNCybercrimeTreaty could help them amplify & cooperate on that persecution. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/growing-threat-cybercrime-law-abuse-lgbtq-rights-mena-and-un-cybercrime-draft #lgbtq #UN #surveillance
We applaud Google and Apple for taking privacy from cell-site simulators seriously. There's still more they can do to protect people, but in the meantime, here are some settings to consider changing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/apple-and-google-are-introducing-new-ways-defeat-cell-site-simulators-it-enough
A troubling policy that requires visa applicants to the U.S. to share their social media information has been upheld by a federal judge.
Did you know a group of ravens is sometimes called an unkindness? Learn this and other bird facts when you pick up EFF's #DEFCON member t-shirt. Catch it before it flies away this evening. https://www.eff.org/vv
There are about a dozen questions we have about self-driving cars and the massive amount of footage they collect. Chief among them: exactly what do police get access to when they get a warrant for footage? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/impending-privacy-threat-self-driving-cars
Facebook should turn OFF behavioral data collection, and only turn it back on if users give informed and voluntary consent. We’ll be watching how Facebook implements its new promises about how it will show behavioral ads to its European users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/facebook-apparently-will-ask-consent-showing-behavioral-ads-some-users
We're proud to present the winners of the 2023 EFF Awards:
🏆 Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan
🏆 Library Freedom Project
🏆 Signal Foundation
Join the celebration in San Francisco on September 14! https:/www.eff.org/effawards