If you're new to Signal, it might feel a little overwhelming to get the hang of, but you can get it set up and working pretty quickly.
How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android:...
At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is an open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of techni...
Our age verification resource hub will answer all your questions about the dangerous new age-gating mandates sweeping the US and the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules abou...
Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy t...
What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV?
Electronic Frontier Foundation
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But ma...
Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy t...
LISTEN: EFF’s @npub1dzv5...5v2p gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast.
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED
How easy is it to find someone from a single video posted online? To find out, Morgan put her own privacy to the test. She asked TikTok creator Jos...
Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Copyright Kills Competition
Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives...
To curb AI deepfakes, “People fleeing [X], or other ways of exerting financial pressure on the company… will probably be more effective than trying to appeal to [Musk’s] feelings, and certainly to his ethics,” EFF’s @npub1lhms...h0pg told Mother Jones.
Grok’s Leering Pictures Are the Newest Version of an Old Problem – Mother Jones
Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and their kids.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech
Instead of respecting how most parents guide their kids towards healthy and educational content, KOSMA hands the control panel to Big Tech. That’...