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  1. 14 hours ago

    It's time to give through the Combined Federal Campaign! If you are a U.S. government employee, donate to EFF using our CFC ID 10437 today!

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Police departments are already over-saturated with surveillance technology that intrudes on civil liberties. So we support 's amendment to keep surveillance drones and other military equipment off our streets.

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    20 hours ago

    No matter how many times Director Wray says this, a backdoor is still a backdoor that criminals, spies and predators can exploit. Someone who doesn't understand that doesn't have any business weighing in on encryption policy.

    It’s common sense that any designed third party route of access to end-to-end encryption, whether it’s intended to be used by the software developer or the FBI or whoever, is a vulnerability that could be maliciously exploited. This stuff from Wray is octopus ink.
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  4. 21 hours ago

    Celebrate HTTPS actually Everywhere with us!

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  5. 23 hours ago

    Canadians, you have just a few days left to speak out on a horrific proposal that would force online platforms to proactively surveil, police, and remove your speech! File your comment right now with 's email tool:

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  6. 23 hours ago

    We took to the skies to get our message across during the last week—Don't scan our phones!

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  7. Sep 20

    School surveillance eliminates the only space where kids from lower-income families can communicate privately online. “The school Chromebook is the only device some kids have, and the school Wi-Fi is the only internet connection,” says EFF attorney Sophia Cope.

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  8. Sep 20

    As Hina Talib, associate professor at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, said, “Privacy is a developmental milestone for teens.”

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  9. Sep 20

    Yet, AI-driven student surveillance software flags a high percentage of false positives, begging the question whether the benefits outweigh violating students’ privacy.

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  10. Sep 20

    Students are some of the most surveilled people in the U.S. Now, artificial intelligence is being used to determine whether their behavior online is an indicator of a threat to themselves and others--and reporting them to their school.

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  11. Sep 20

    Tell Congress: The Fourth Amendment is not for sale. Your Senators and Representatives need to hear that the government should be barred from purchasing personal data it would otherwise need a warrant to acquire.

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  12. Sep 19

    Vaccines should be a tool to reopen doors. Digital vaccine passports, as we've seen them deployed so far, are far more likely to slam them shut.

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  13. Sep 19

    Next, encryption for backups should become the default for all users, not just an option.

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  14. Sep 19

    It is vitally important that social media platforms provide transparency, accountability, and meaningful due process. Banning content moderation is not the answer.

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  15. Sep 19

    Surveillance isn’t normal, and it isn’t okay. Students are right to feel concerned and to want to speak up about their privacy.

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  16. Sep 19

    Tech giants need to be pushed to make it easy for users to leave, or to use other tools to interact with their data without leaving entirely.

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  17. Sep 19

    TOSsed Out highlights the various ways in which Terms of Service (TOS) and other speech moderation rules are unevenly enforced. Read on for some of the most egregious examples of enforcement:

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  18. Sep 19

    Afghanistan represents a new chapter in the long history of how mass information collected about individuals can make a population vulnerable to future malevolent uses.

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  19. Sep 19

    Police departments are receiving millions in public health funding to buy high tech surveillance equipment, but, “There’s no way to police yourself out of a pandemic. And there’s certainly no way to surveil yourself out of a pandemic.”

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  20. Sep 19

    When you browse the web, go shopping, and even drive around, corporate trackers are watching your every move. Our report walks through the most common kinds of tracking, from pixels to facial recognition.

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