EFF Urges FTC to Address Security and Privacy Problems in Daycare and Early Education Apps
An EFF study found the apps compromise young children’s data, and current laws don’t address the problem. The Federal Trade Commission must review the lack…
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EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program
Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records…
22 Rights Groups Tell PayPal and Venmo to Shape Up Policies on Account Closures
San Francisco – Nearly two dozen rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have joined together to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to…
University COVID App Mandates Are The Wrong Call
By Gennie Gebhart, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Andrew Crocker As students, parents, and schools prepare the new school year, universities are considering ways to make returning…
EFF and 45 Human Rights and Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Federal Law Enforcement Actions Against Protesters in Portland
By Matthew Guariglia and Rainey Reitman EFF joined dozens of other groups in a letter condemning the behavior of federal law enforcement agencies in Portland,…
EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, today launched the largest-ever collection of…
Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
San Francisco – A Reddit commenter has won their fight to stay anonymous after facing an improper copyright claim from the Watch Tower Bible and…
EFF Report Exposes, Explains Big Tech’s Personal Data Trackers Lurking on Social Media, Websites, and Apps
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a comprehensive report that identifies and explains the hidden technical methods and business practices companies use to…
EFF to Amazon and Shaq: Stop Pushing Police Partnerships with Ring Doorbell Camera Company
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging Amazon, along with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, to cancel an event promoting Ring home-surveillance cameras at a police…
EFF on Why Fiber-to-the-Home is “Vastly Superior” to Cable and 5G, and How Greed Is Dictating That Americans Don’t Get It
By B.N. Frank Although Fiber Optics with a wired internet connection has been touted by some as being completely safe, there are Americans still experiencing…
Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law…
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations
SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of…
The History of Cellular Network Security Doesn’t Bode Well for 5G
By EFF Threat Lab There’s been quite a bit of media hype about the improvements 5G is set to supposedly bring to users, many of…