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  1. 10 minutes ago

    You can find a ton of vintage EFF t-shirts in our shop! Each one comes with a year-long membership certificate, so you can show your support for EFF and have member perks!

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  2. 2 hours ago

    During each period of U.S. history, communication tactics remained strong among the Black community under the eye of surveillance.

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  3. 17 hours ago

    EFF joins the , Electronic Frontier Alliance member , and other leading civil society advocates calling on to address the racial justice and civil liberties impacts of the NYPD’s sprawling surveillance system.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    Today is the final day 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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  5. Feb 24

    Email tracking can even be used to connect readers to their web browsing behavior and physical location. This is dangerous and appalling.

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  6. Feb 24

    Bad email tracking is ubiquitous, secretive, pervasive, and leaky. Email service providers and newsletter companies that default to including granular tracking pixels should not force users to surveil their readers.

    also, the mandatory link tracking on substack ruins the reader experience for link-heavy newsletters and is unnecessary and dumb
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  7. Feb 24

    The law protecting biometric privacy in Illinois is the “gold standard and the kind of thing we’d like to see in all privacy laws,” EFF Senior Staff Attorney tells

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  8. Feb 23

    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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  9. Feb 23

    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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  10. Feb 23

    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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  11. Feb 23

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

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  12. Feb 23

    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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  13. Feb 23

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

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  14. Feb 22

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

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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