Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Chicago Inspector General: Police use ShotSpotter to justify illegal stop-and-frisks
The Chicago Office of the Inspector General has released a highly critical report on the Police’s use of ShotSpotter, a surveillance technology that relies on a combination of artificial intelligence and human “acoustic experts” to purportedly identify and locate gunshots based on a network of high-powered microphones located on some of the city’s streets.
How LGBTQI+ content is censored under the guise of “sexually explicit”
Apple’s new feature assumes that parents are benevolent protectors, but for many children, that isn’t the case: parents can also be the abuser, or may have more traditional or restrictive ideas of acceptable exploration than their children.
If you build it, they will come: Apple has opened the backdoor to increased surveillance and censorship around the world
Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages.
Facebook’s attack on research is everyone’s problem
Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University (NYU) researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation, from its platform.
Should Congress close the FBI’s backdoor for spying on American communications? Yes.
All of us deserve basic protection against government searches and seizures that the Constitution provides, including requiring law enforcement to get a warrant before it can access our communications. But currently, the FBI has a backdoor into our communications, a loophole, that Congress can and should close.
Data brokers are the problem
Why should you care about data brokers? Reporting this week about a Substack publication outing a priest with location data from Grindr shows once again how easy it is for anyone to take advantage of data brokers’ stores to cause real harm.
EFF sues U.S. Postal Service for records about covert social media spying program
The service looked through people’s posts prior to street protests.
Right or left, you should be worried about Big Tech censorship
Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship” – these laws are deeply misguided and nakedly unconstitutional.