Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples:
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Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives.
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Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers i...
Thousands of cities allowed cops to run racists searches through their Flock Safety license plate reader databases.
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License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People
More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searc...
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Google's new global ID registration system means more risk for developers, and fewer options for users.
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Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship
Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. governme...
EFF will watch "to see if police departments actually adhere to the law, or if they just let Axon's Draft One delete that initial draft when they export the report and don't retain what according to law they should be retaining," Matthew Guariglia told CBS 8.
Chula Vista leads with AI-generated police reports amid questions on accuracy, accountability | cbs8.com
The government is throwing tons of taxpayer money "at this idea that they can somehow collect and organize everything that they know about us and only use it for good,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told NOTUS. “We ought to be very, very skeptical of this.”
NOTUS
ICE Detention and Surveillance Translate Into Hundreds of Millions for Companies
“We've never seen anything like this before,” Geo Group founder George Zoley said.
The body-worn camera “that was sold to us as a police accountability tool should not be turned into a shaming-random-civilians tool,” EFF’s @npub1wfn0...j5jr told Vox.
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How routine police stops are becoming viral social media fodder
Police body cameras were supposed to ensure justice. They’ve turned into YouTube content.
La NDAA 2026 impulsa compras de software/IA en el DoD con menos divulgación de costos y requisitos de prueba; rapidez por encima de diligencia debida. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/department-defense-wants-less-proof-its-software-works?language=es
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Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Summer 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of February 15. See below for instructions and a link to the applicatio...