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Hey #DEFCON! EFF is excited to answer your burning questions on pressing digital rights issues! Join us at Track 4 at 14:30 for an Ask EFF panel: https://www.eff.org/event/eff-def-con-33
Hey #DEFCON! EFF is excited to answer your burning questions on pressing digital rights issues! Join us at Track 4 at 14:30 for an Ask EFF panel: https://www.eff.org/event/eff-def-con-33
No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driverβs license just to access legal information and speak freely. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how
EFF is always so proud to represent security researchers doing important work. Our Coders' Rights Project often works with DEFCON presenters, and two of our clients are presenting today about schools, bathroom vape detectors, and audio recordings. https://www.wired.com/story/school-bathroom-vape-detector-audio-bug/
EFF's annual #DEFCON t-shirt puzzle is live! Many thanks to our puzzlemasters, the Muppet Liberation Front for creating this year's challenge! Think you can crack it? https://eff.org/vv
Age verification is here, and now UK Redditors canβt access their favorite LGBTQ+, political, or public health communities without destroying their anonymity. Help us fight to avoid this future. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
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Do you use EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Guides to protect you and your friends from online spying? https://ssd.eff.org
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This is a story EFF was made for.
Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/
Redditβs UK age verification rollout has been an absolute nightmare for usersβ online privacy, safety, and expression. We cannot allow this to be the new global norm.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
βWhen you know where a personβs been, you know all about them,β EFFβs @Adam_D_Schwartz@mstdn.social told Florida's Suncoast Searchlight, whether itβs a movie or a protest or a gun show. βAnd all of this is in the hands of governments and corporate entities that can sell it.β https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2025/08/08/sarasota-neighborhoods-use-controversial-technology-to-fine-speeders/85574104007/
Today at 13:30 on Track 1 @ #DEFCON 33: Senior Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin will be covering the latest EFF tool, Rayhunter and how it works. https://www.eff.org/event/eff-def-con-33