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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago
EFF spoke with Mayday Health, the nonprofit behind the billboards in Texas warning pregnant drivers that authorities could be using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to track their movements.
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"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to trac...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago
New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer discusses working to ensure a future of openness, security, and fundamental rights, not fear, surveillance, and centralized power. "I am proud to take the torch and help lead our EFF community forward at this pivotal time in history." 🧵
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Building Our Future Together
In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago
Corporations are making it harder to repair your devices—locking you out and forcing you to pay for repairs and replacements you don't need. Join EFF along with Adam Savage and iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens. We'll explore the Right to Repair and answer your questions live!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago
This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A. You asked: is being openly trans on the internet harmful in this day and age with the current political situation? EFF's answer: In short, yes. But of course it's more complicated than that. image
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 month ago
Four years ago, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. In that time, EFF has seen digital rights and reproductive rights become more and more intertwined. This includes the fight to protect free speech online.
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Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for Online Speech
This week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for people se...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 3 months ago
“At worst, we're talking about a technology that invades your privacy if an ICE or CBP officer even looks at you, but even at best, we're looking at a project that, like lots of DHS tech, just wastes taxpayer money on shiny gadgets,” EFF’s @npub1hg2u...l7re told @npub1n6lz...zmz9.
404 Media
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago
Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden.
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The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Re...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago
Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump administration tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @npub1lhms...h0pg told @npub18gnu...g0a2.
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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 4 months ago
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1! Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5) image
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