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Electronic Frontier FoundationPolice can’t spy on the private electricity data of thousands of people with zero suspicion. Not in Sacramento. Not anywhere. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento
Electronic Frontier FoundationIf you want to enable WhatsApp’s “Advanced Chat Privacy” in group chats, you might also want to lock down the permissions of that chat first. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/what-whatsapps-advanced-chat-privacy-really-does
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We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-demands-answers-about-ice-spotting-app-takedowns
Electronic Frontier FoundationYou know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back: https://takebackctrl.org/stop-surveillance
Electronic Frontier FoundationAlgorithmic face scans are “dangerous, whether used to estimate our age, our name, or other demographics,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz@mstdn.social told @PCMag@mastodon.social. EFF favors “a ban on government use of this technology, and strict regulation… for corporate use.” https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/give-us-your-face-or-lose-your-account-ai-age-verification-is-here-and
Electronic Frontier Foundation“GeoSpy has proven to not be very accurate in my experience and this tool could lead to false accusations and further harassment of innocent people,” EFF’s @cooperq@infosec.exchange warned @404mediaco@mastodon.social. “It’s also a powerful tool for stalking or other misuse by police.” https://www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-geospy-an-ai-tool-that-can-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/
Electronic Frontier Foundation"This is really the first time, that I’m aware of, where a U.S. court has found that it has jurisdiction over a spyware victim when the spying was done at the behest of a foreign government," EFF’s @davidgreene@mstdn.social told Courthouse News Service.
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-advances-saudi-activists-lawsuit-against-emirati-cybersecurity-firm/
Electronic Frontier FoundationWhile police departments say the drones-as-first-responders technology will be used to reduce crime, it could be expanded to other situations such as policing homeless residents and surveilling communities, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told the Orange County Register. https://www.ocregister.com/2025/08/12/for-huntington-beach-police-unmanned-drones-will-soon-replace-officers-as-a-first-response-option-for-911-calls/
Electronic Frontier FoundationNEW on “How to Fix the Internet” - @randomwalker@mastodon.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley@mastodon.world to discuss what it means to be an AI “techno-optimist” (and NOT the venture capitalist kind).
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/podcast-episode-separating-ai-hope-ai-hype
Electronic Frontier FoundationCell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying