COVID Technologies Feeding Into The Global Surveillance State
By Mike Maharrey In another frightening example of “mission creep,” governments around the world are using technologies developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to expand dragnet…
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In 2023 It Will Be Nearly Impossible to Avoid Facial Recognition in the U.S.
By Derrick Broze As more airports in the United States adopt facial recognition technology, the privacy of Americans is once again threatened. In early December,…
Facebook Parent Settles Cambridge Analytica Data Harvesting Scandal For $725 Million
By Tyler Durden Facebook parent Meta has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal for $725 million, or just…
Privacy Shouldn’t Clock Out When You Clock In: 2022 in Review
By Hayley Tsukayama and José EFA EFF continued to expand our work on technology issues in the workplace in 2022. We first renewed our attention…
Fighting Tech-Enabled Abuse: 2022 in Review
By Eva Galperin No year that includes tech-enabled abuse can be said to be a good year. But 2022 has certainly been an eventful year…
Lifting the Fog: 2022 in Review
By Will Greenberg Earlier this year, a cross-team group of EFF technologists, researchers, activists, and lawyers broke the story of Fog Data Science, a secretive…
Governments are Still Free to Use the Pegasus Software Without Human Rights Safeguards in Place
By Veszna Wessenauer In September 2022, Szabolcs Panyi, a Hungarian investigative journalist with Direkt36, published a story on how the Pegasus software was brought to…
Digital Surveillance, Privacy, Censorship and Cybersecurity– 2022 Year in Review
By Cindy Cohn EFF believes we can create a future where our rights not only follow us online, but are enhanced by new technology. The…
On FTX, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Future of Freedom
By Derrick Broze Friends, To those who might not fully understand the implications of the FTX implosion and the calls for crypto regulation – specifically…
Revealed: How Twitter Functioned as Arm of the FBI and Intelligence Services
By 21st Century Wire The public have been understandably shocked by recent revelations from Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files, exposing how the firm…
New Report Reveals That Most Ed-Tech Software Tools Share Student Data With 3rd Parties Often Without User Consent
By B.N. Frank Data collection on kids must be big business, otherwise tech companies wouldn’t be fighting to continue the common yet creepy practice. Of…
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or…
Gov’t Now Also “collecting and processing personal information” via “Smart” and Traditional Energy Meters
By B.N. Frank Opposition to utility “smart” meters (electric, gas, and water) has been ongoing worldwide since companies started deploying them. Utilities encourage or force…
Digital Currency: The Fed Moves Toward Monetary Totalitarianism
By André Marques The Federal Reserve is sowing the seeds for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). It may seem that the purpose of a…