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A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.” The judge found that designation, intended to penalize Anthropic for telling the U.S. military it would not allow their technology to be used for mass surveillance of U.S. persons, “constituted unlawful ret
First reported Sep 02, 2026 01:13 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Regulating commercial location tracking has reached a turning point. Last year, we published our rubric for what comprehensive and protective location privacy laws should look like, outlining the baseline standards states should meet to shield individuals from pervasive location surveillance. Since then, state lawmakers across the country have begun responding to calls like these, with Connecticut
First reported Aug 31, 2026 16:49 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras that the company is calling Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE). The idea is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while it might technically add a speed bump to accessing full video content, it doesn’t deliver nearly the level of privacy we should be de
First reported Sep 11, 2026 16:56 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to Move ForwardNEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday. On October 1, 2026, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District
First reported Oct 02, 2026 15:54 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly relying on spying technologies—automated license plate readers (ALPR), cell-site simulators, and facial recognition, to name a few--causing an outcry in many communities where people are rightly concerned about the threat to civil rights and civil liberties these tools present.Some authorities are responding to these concerns by trying t
First reported Sep 09, 2026 20:09 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
EFF is pleased to announce that Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media Rights have received 2026 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. The EFF Awards recognize specific and substantial technical, social, economic, or cultural contributions in diverse fields incl
First reported Sep 09, 2026 16:00 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data from their Flock Safety system with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law, which has put every driver in the county at risk and is especially dangerous
First reported Oct 01, 2026 21:59 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of the growing tide of public opposition to mass surveillance. After years of successful grassroots battles to pull these cameras from local streets, bipartisan momentum is sweeping the country. On August 28, Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned
First reported Sep 02, 2026 17:31 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and self-serving. The case was brought by our client, Channel 781 News, after takedown notices temporarily shut down the citizen journalism group's YouTube channel. We think the court set the bar far too lo
First reported Sep 03, 2026 19:11 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted unlawful investigations into dozens of individuals who have documented ICE activities in their communities, social media users who criticized the government, and international students who attended a protest. A favored tool in these speech chilling investigations are administrative subpoenas sent to technology companies, requesting basic subs
First reported Aug 26, 2026 21:31 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
In a new blow to Ola Bini’s legal guarantees, Ecuadorean authorities retained the free software developer and security expert yesterday in Quito and ordered his immediate deportation from the country. He is barred from returning to Ecuador for 10 years. According to information released by his lawyer, Bini was intercepted by a car with four people who identified themselves as immigration agents. H
First reported Oct 02, 2026 13:34 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide the mathematical guarantees that the companies who operate these messaging platforms cannot access the contents of messages. But there’s no way to gu
First reported Sep 18, 2026 21:53 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
When the rich and powerful try to use the court to silence negative reporting about themselves, it’s worth calling out that behavior for what it is: an attack on free speech. This is why EFF is happy to stand up for reporters who find themselves in that situation. The California Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to strike a former Premise Data CEO’s meritless lawsuit against a journ
First reported Sep 30, 2026 22:38 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Under this settlement, young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play. The settlement also embeds age assurance into every product, mandating the collection of even more personal information from users of all ages; this enshrines Meta's harmful surveilla
First reported Aug 26, 2026 16:34 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Then, the Supreme Court declined to embrace the hype, noting that the VTR was capable of all kinds of non-infringing uses, l
First reported Aug 31, 2026 19:45 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. This is an important case—Levine v. FAA—challenging the ability of the government to punish drone pilots who record law enforcemen
First reported Sep 21, 2026 22:59 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Governor Newsom signed a package of 12 bills yesterday aimed at “protecting children” online. One of them was AB 1709, which EFF has opposed this legislative session and serves as a functional ban on young people under 16 using social media. However, EFF supported two of the bills signed into law, AB 2071 and AB 2298, which require that children learn critical digital literacy and cybersecurity to
First reported Sep 11, 2026 20:25 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The term “digital sovereignty” has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global majority use it to argue for greater control over data and communications infrastructure and boost their economies. Companies market “sovereign cloud” products designed to reassure their customers th
First reported Sep 09, 2026 18:04 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see and do online – seem to know everything we’re thinking and planning. It didn’t have to be this way, and since the early days of the internet, a dedicated band of activists, lawyers and technologists ha
First reported Sep 29, 2026 15:00 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
With doomsday AI scenarios dominating the news, lawmakers are rightly concerned about reports concerning security breaches at major US AI labs, such as the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and the many others reported in its aftermath. As they consider potentially regulating frontier AI, they should focus any new legislation on the immediate, demonstrated risks from those incidents. Post-incident repo
First reported Sep 18, 2026 01:16 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Bans Like California’s Don’t Fix What’s Wrong With Social Media Companies SAN FRANCISCO - Technology and the laws that regulate it should support and empower young people. California’s AB 1709 - signed into law today by Gov. Gavin Newsom - falls far short of this goal, say the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and its allies. Using technology is how we learn and build community in today’s world
First reported Sep 10, 2026 19:12 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ALPRs are purpose-built to track everyone regardless of suspicion. ALPRs are not a surveillance tool that can be made safe with the right policy or feature update—they are irredeemably harmful. EFF's
First reported Aug 26, 2026 17:44 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online co
First reported Aug 31, 2026 23:37 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Alexander “amac” Macgillivray — a former White House official who also served in top legal capacities at Twitter and Google — has joined EFF’s Board of Directors. Macgillivray served in the Biden Administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Science a
First reported Sep 16, 2026 16:36 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
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