Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier FoundationAt EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is an open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Electronic Frontier Foundation“If you're being paid to use an app, chances are high that the app is harvesting and monetizing your personal data,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/no-the-freecash-app-wont-pay-you-to-scroll-tiktok/
Electronic Frontier FoundationWe're honored to receive the Firefox Extension Developer Award for Privacy Badger. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/12/17/presenting-2025-firefox-extension-developer-award-recipients/
Electronic Frontier Foundation"Employers have a lot of latitude in the workplace to do video monitoring and really lots of different kinds of surveillance," EFF’s @htsuka@mastodon.online told CBS News — and some of that surveillance doesn’t get turned off when employees are off the clock. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-california-lawmakers-killed-workplace-surveillance-bill/
Electronic Frontier FoundationThough age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: https://EFF.org/Age
Electronic Frontier Foundation“Santa Cruz got it right,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told KQED News. “Santa Cruz joins nearly two dozen jurisdictions in 2025 that canceled or rejected Flock contracts by exercising procurement power—local democracy’s most underutilized tool.” https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety
Electronic Frontier FoundationICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest, @404mediaco@mastodon.social reports. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
Electronic Frontier FoundationEFF didn’t share the unredacted data because “our policy is not to release data of surveillance victims,” EFF’s Cara Gagliano told @404mediaco@mastodon.social. But Flock’s demands that web hosts take it down “are bogus… It’s data obtained from public records.”
https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/
Electronic Frontier FoundationLocking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
Electronic Frontier FoundationIt can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice