Responding to ShotSpotter, Police Shoot at Child Lighting Fireworks
This post was written by Rachel Hochhauser, an EFF legal intern We’ve written multiple times about the inaccurate and dangerous “gunshot detection” tool, ShotSpotter. A…
This post was written by Rachel Hochhauser, an EFF legal intern We’ve written multiple times about the inaccurate and dangerous “gunshot detection” tool, ShotSpotter. A…
By Adam Schwartz Phone app location data brokers are a growing menace to our privacy and safety. All you did was click a box while…
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz The Arizona legislature last year passed a law (H.B. 2319 codified at A.R.S. § 13-3732) banning the video recording…
By Jason Kelley and Adam Schwartz Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach…
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz In a partial victory for police accountability, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the…
By Adam Schwartz and Mukund Rathi When people fear that the police are about to break the law, they pull out their phones and hit…
By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, free speech, and information security. So EFF supports bans on government use…
By Adam Schwartz Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. Our faces are unique identifiers, and…
By Bennett Cyphers, Adam Schwartz, and Nathan Sheard Governments and corporations are tracking how we go about our lives with a unique marker that most…
By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, and free speech. So EFF supports laws that ban government use of…
By Adam Schwartz and Alexis Hancock Digital identification can invade our privacy and aggravate existing social inequities. Designed wrong, it might be a big step…
By Adam Schwartz Clearview AI extracts faceprints from billions of people, without their consent, and uses these faceprints to help police identify suspects. This does…
By Alexis Hancock, Adam Schwartz, and Jon Callas The State of California recently released what it calls a “Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record.” It is part…
By Nathan Sheard and Adam Schwartz All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive surveillance technologies on the streets of our communities, based…