Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How They Interact
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which...
Science needs to be ready for the censorship and chilling of scholarly research. That means a global rejection of large intermediaries getting between researchers and the public. #OAWeek
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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...
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...
Unwary users might be risking their privacy by using OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, EFF’s Victoria Noble told ABC News Live.
ABC News
Video Privacy concerns over new Open AI web browser
ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Victoria Noble about what users should be on the lookout for if they cho...
When you ask ChatGPT a question, you're in control of the information you're sharing, EFF’s Lena Cohen told USA Today, but “when you're using the Atlas browser for day-to-day tasks, it's easier to forget that all of your activity could be sent to OpenAI."
OpenAI launches ChatGPT-powered web browser. What to know.
LISTEN: EFF’s Matthew Guariglia joined KALW’s Your Call Radio to discuss ICE expanding its surveillance capabilities, recent legal decisions, and Trump’s threats to send ICE to San Francisco.
KALW
The Authoritarian Playbook: Trump escalates violent ICE raids
Over 59,000 people are in ICE detention. Sixty-five percent had no convictions and 93 percent had no violent convictions, according to data obtaine...
A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/10/20/openai-ordered-to-unmask-writer-of-prompts/
“Ring’s new partnership with Flock shows that the company is more interested in contributing to mounting authoritarianism than servicing the specific needs of their customers,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @Ars Technica.
Ars Technica
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
On Global Encryption Day, our #OptOutOctober tip is to check out Signal: an encrypted messaging app that actually keeps your conversations private.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...
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Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a t...