Police shouldn’t get ‘open-book’ access to your phone. In a major boost for digital privacy, Michigan now demands tailored warrants.
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Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions
When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your d...
Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one.
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the ...
Age verification has arrived in the UK and, to no one’s surprise, users hate it. We cannot accept these censorship regimes as our new norm.
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Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout
Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustr...
Surveillance tech is not making us safer – it’s putting innocent people at risk. This isn’t public safety. It’s automated injustice. Read more:
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The Human Toll of ALPR Errors
This post was written by Gowri Nayar, an EFF legal intern. Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pul...
Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it.
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Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF
Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd o...
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It’s no secret that AI models—including gen AI—tend to discriminate against racial and gender minorities. When government agencies start using biased AI to make decisions, real people suffer.
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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI comp...
Los fallos técnicos y exclusiones en Reddit muestran que la verificación de edad aumenta riesgos y no seguridad infantil; urge frenarla antes de que se expanda. #DerechosDigitales
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Estén atentos, estadounidenses: lecciones aprendidas del caótico lanzamiento de la verificación de edad en Reddit en el Reino Unido
Con la entrada en vigor de la Ley de Seguridad en Internet, han comenzado a surgir innumerables problemas, y el absoluto desastre resultante demues...
The UK's Online Safety Act's push to protect kids online through content blocking and age checks sounds good—until you look deeper.
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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host con...
People sometimes worry that companies are secretly listening to us through our phones because they see surprising, unexpected ads. Learn what’s really going on:
Is My Phone Listening To Me?
Is My Phone Listening To Me?