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For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information--all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and .. ...

SAN FRANCISCO--The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India will receive the 2025 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports ...

EFF has filed an amicus brief in Trabajadores v. Bessent, a case concerning the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sharing protected personal tax information with the Department of Homeland Security for the purposes of immigration enforcement. Our ...

In 2023, the State of Washington enacted one of the strongest consumer data privacy laws in recent years: the "my health my data" act (HB 1155). EFF commends the civil rights, data privacy, and reproductive justice advocates who worked to pass this . ...

Keeping up on the latest digital rights news has never been easier. With a new look, EFF's EFFector newsletter covers the latest details on our work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online.EFFector 37.7 covers some of the very ...

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important .. ...

We're wishing EFF a happy birthday on July 10! Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. .. ...

Two recent statements from the surveillance company--one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network--reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock ...

Today's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that "no person--adult or child--has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting ...

A Georgia court has decided that private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) must comply with public records requests under the Georgia Open Records Act for some of its functions on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department. This is a major win ...