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The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. H.B. 5511 is a massive privacy and free speech ...

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. . ...

This Pride month, we're calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers or training AI on private information without users ...

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, "the algorithm" has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our . ...

This is not science fiction. It's not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation ...

Ignoring EFF's warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to ...

Time and time again, researchers have found numerous compromised Android devices for sale at large online retailers like Amazon. When these devices get individually reported, we have seen some noted efforts to take them down. But this is a systemic . ...

Seeking transparency and accountability in Paraguay's use of facial recognition, EFF, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a complaint . ...

This week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for people seeking abortion care. Anniversaries are a moment to take stock, and over the last four years, EFF has seen . ...

The Federal Communications Commission wants to require telecommunications providers to collect vast amounts of personal information from every person who wants a phone number in the name of combatting scam and spam calls. This plan will fail to ...