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California has shown itself to be a national privacy leader. But there is still work to do. That’s why EFF is proud to sponsor two bills in this year’s legislature—both with the co-sponsorship of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse—that would strengthen privacy protections in the state. These bills are focused on two particularly pernicious forms of data collection. Both will be heard on April 5 in the California Senate Judiciary Committee, and we’re asking Californians to tell committee members to pass these...
Recently at EFF’s Threat Lab, we’ve been focusing a lot on the Android malware ecosystem and providing tools for its analysis. We’ve noticed lot of samples of Android malware in the tor-hydra family have surfaced, masquerading as banking apps to lure unsuspecting customers into installing them. In this post, we will take an example of one such sample and analyze it using open-source tools available to anyone. At a Glance The sample we’ll be looking at was first seen on...
Las empresas de supervisión a distancia, como Proctorio, ProctorU y ExamSoft, recopilan todo tipo de datos privados sobre los estudiantes y los examinados, desde información biométrica hasta el estado de la ciudadanía y el vídeo y el audio del entorno del usuario. Durante la pandemia se ha producido un aumento del 500% en el uso de estas herramientas de supervisión, más de la mitad de las instituciones de educación superior utilizaban servicios de supervisión remota y otro 23% estaba considerando...
Surveillance Self-Defense
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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
Privacy Badger
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Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.