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The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act bans federal use of face surveillance and withholds some federal tax dollars from paying for it at the state and local level. Tell your elected officials now to co-sponsor this bill.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/now-time-tell-congress-ban-federal-use-face-recognition …

The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act bans federal use of face surveillance and withholds some federal tax dollars from paying for it at the state and local level. Tell your elected officials now to co-sponsor this bill.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/now-time-tell-congress-ban-federal-use-face-recognition …

Yes, it is possible to navigate toward a digital world that supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people—and with your help, we can get there. Will you donate to EFF today?https://eff.org/join 

In collaboration with @LegalAidNYC, Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY has uncovered $159 million of unchecked NYPD spending on spy tech ranging from face recognition software to x-ray vans.https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-secret-fund-surveillance-tools/ …

"Apple has in the past said that it’s not in the business of searching the content of its users’ phones.” says EFF's @davidgreene to @PopSci. "The big change is that this will actually be happening now."https://www.popsci.com/technology/apple-fights-to-limit-child-pornography-and-csam/ …

We've created an informative handout for teaching people about malware, and protections against contracting malware on devices - as well as instructions and activities for helping learners get the most out of the resource.https://sec.eff.org/materials/malware-handout-english …

The U.S. and close allies have made it clear they’ll push for access to encrypted data. @Apple shouldn’t help.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-apple-has-opened-backdoor-increased-surveillance …

EFF Senior Staff Technologist @ohemorange tells the Verge, “Half the problem is that the system is so easy to change.”https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22613225/apple-csam-scanning-messages-child-safety-features-privacy-controversy-explained …

The only thing banned NYU researchers “violated” was Facebook’s secrecy, not user privacy.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-attack-research-everyones-problem …

Survivors of domestic abuse need to be able to remove their cell phone plan and information from the control of abusers. A new bill would let them. Tell Congress to pass the Safe Connections Act.https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-safe-connections-act-and-make-it-easier-for-survivors-to-escape-domestic-violence …

Para los países inclinados a la censura de contenidos, el programa de escaneo de Apple es un buen comienzo; sólo querrán algunos ajustes más.https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-apple-has-opened-backdoor-increased-surveillance …

This may be the best chance we get for years to ban federal use of face surveillance and withhold some federal tax dollars from paying for this invasive and dangerous technology.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/now-time-tell-congress-ban-federal-use-face-recognition …

“They’ve said they don’t have any plans to do worse things with this technology, but this just feels, at this point, naïvely optimistic.” - EFF Senior Staff Technologist @ohemorangehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/technology/personaltech/iphone-update-sex-abuse.html …

The Minnesota Fusion Center, a federal-state law enforcement partnership, has been surveilling water protectors who are trying to protect their land and water sources from tar sands pipelines.https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/line-3-fusion-center-data-declared-secret/ …

To help visualize the problem of surveillance, we made this cross section from overhead to underground—to show how these technologies and legal authorities overlap and how they disproportionately impact the lives of marginalized communities.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/graphic-overlapping-infrastructure-urban-surveillance-and-how-fix-it …

If Facebook doesn’t bless your project, it can sue you, deplatform you, and brick your devices. That is why we need to protect research and innovation with competitive compatibility.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-attack-research-everyones-problem …

Tech companies monetize and weaponize our data. But forcing them to share it with competitors and governments, without user consent, would make the problems of the surveillance economy worse.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/why-data-sharing-mandates-are-wrong-way-regulate-tech …

This patent troll wants $8,500 from websites that use @reCAPTCHA—if they pay immediately. If they fight back, the demand goes up to $70,000.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/captcha-patent-all-american-nightmare …