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  1. 12 hours ago

    Celebrate 30 years of EFF fighting for digital rights by becoming a member and grabbing a new piece of gear! Your donation will help us reach our goal of 35,000 supporters!

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  2. 16 hours ago

    The deadline to submit comments is February 25

    Electronic Frontier Alliance member and over 100 other groups fought for the POST Act. The NYPD are not providing the transparency as prescribed by the bill. Let the NYPD know that you are against mass surveillance.
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  3. 16 hours ago

    Tomorrow evening Electronic Frontier Alliance member will be joining the Staten Island DSA for a teach-in about facial recognition technology and the dangers it poses to the borough.

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Student surveillance apps have spread during the pandemic. Speaking out against them shouldn’t get you sued.

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  5. 18 hours ago

    Electronic Frontier Alliance member has compiled a database of the technology being used by police to surveil the people of Chicago.

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  6. 20 hours ago

    Read EFF Senior Staff Attorney and discuss the “best law you never heard of”: Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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  7. Feb 22

    Virginians: tell Governor Ralph Northam to veto this bill, and stand up for real privacy protections.

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  8. Feb 22

    Virginia's legislature passed an empty privacy bill last week, which was originally presented to the sponsor by an Amazon lobbyist.

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  9. Feb 22

    This evening, join Electronic Frontier Alliance member Portland TA3M for their monthly meetup to discuss the role that surveillance technology plays in the justice system.

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  10. Feb 22

    Only 3 days remain to submit comments:

    Electronic Frontier Alliance member and over 100 other groups fought for the POST Act. The NYPD are not providing the transparency as prescribed by the bill. Let the NYPD know that you are against mass surveillance.
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  11. Feb 22

    The VA legislature passed a “privacy” bill that does next to nothing to protect your rights. Now it’s up to Gov. Northam to stand up for real privacy. Tell him to veto the VA Consumer Data Protection Act.

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  12. Feb 22

    President Biden must embrace government transparency, including ending needless secrecy of its mass surveillance programs, EFF and a coalition of open government organizations demanded in a letter today.

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  13. Feb 21

    We know that the LAPD used Ring cameras to get footage during Black Lives Matter protests over the summer. Ring has over 2,000 partnerships with police. These ubiquitous surveillance partnerships are dangerous and chill First Amendment protected activity.

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  14. Feb 21

    Virginians: The Consumer Data Protection Act moves us in the wrong direction. Virginia has a chance to take a stand against Big Tech companies who want to have control over your privacy rights.

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  15. Feb 21

    Join us for “Copyright for Internet Creators,” where ’s and EFF’s own and will answer your questions about everything from how Content ID works to what happened to .

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  16. Feb 21

    WhatsApp’s obfuscation and misdirection around what its various policies allow has put its users in a losing battle to understand what, exactly, is happening to their data.

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  17. Feb 21

    The holiday season is over, but you can still give someone in your life the gift of supporting the fight for digital rights!

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  18. Feb 21

    Copyright should not be a fast-track to getting speech removed that you do not like. The law is meant to encourage creativity by giving artists a limited period of exclusive rights to their creations. It is not a loophole to be exploited by authorities.

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  19. Feb 21

    It sounds unconstitutional because it is. The government should not be able to buy geolocation data gathered by the apps on your phone.

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  20. Feb 21

    For years, we've watched with increasing horror as pioneered new dystopian ways of abusing tech users. One bright spot: this inspired 's outstanding reportage on the infosec, consumer rights and human costs of the scam.

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