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EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews helped the Washington Post develop a privacy self-defense guide for deleting the file your chatbot keeps on you, with settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/22/ai-privacy-settings-chatgpt-gemini-claude-copilot-meta/

“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @npub1dc8w...ag3a told @npub1n6lz...zmz9. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time."

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

Big thank you to everyone who participated in our AMA on the harms of age-verification mandates over on Reddit’s r/privacy this week. We got some really good questions—did we answer any of yours? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/comment/nuwpiui/

From photo IDs and selfies to social security numbers and location information, data breaches hit a wide variety of companies this year.

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The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my info...

New Speaking Freely is here! In our latest interview, we chat with Sami Ben Gharbia, a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. Read more here:

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Speaking Freely: Sami Ben Gharbia

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He founded Global Voices Advocacy, and ...

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Stand Together to Protect Democracy

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It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face.

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Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender People

Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under ...

Before sending a copyright infringement notice to an online platform, people need to consider all the fair use factors—not make up their own test.

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Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.

Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should h...

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Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist in-person when a bartender just glances at your ID.

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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?

This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, wh...