Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Cover Your Tracks is about giving users the tools to fight back against the trackers, and improve the web ecosystem to provide privacy for everyone.

EFF was profoundly disturbed by reports that the White House was pressuring Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), to change CISA’s reports on election security.

It’s not clear that social media played a more significant role than many other factors in the 2016 election, including traditional media. But the techlash is real enough.

One bad privacy idea that won’t die is the so-called “data dividend,” which imagines a world where companies have to pay you in order to use your data. Sound too good to be true? It is.

There is a difference between corporately sanctioned ‘transparency,’ which is inherently limited, and meaningful transparency that empowers users to understand Facebook’s actions and hold the company accountable.

Local groups often turn to license plate readers thinking that they will protect their community from crime. But the truth is, these cameras – which record every license plate coming in and out of the neighborhood – may create more problems than they solve.

GIFCT has the potential to have a massive (and disproportionate) negative impact on the freedom of expression of certain communities.

No student should be forced to make the choice to either hand over their biometric data and be surveilled continuously or to fail their class.