The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation for 35 years and counting!
Today we celebrate 35 years of EFF bearing the torch for digital rights against the darkness of the world. While threats from state and commercial forces grew alongside the internet, so too did EFF’s expertise.
EFF has filed an amicus brief in Trabajadores v. Bessent , a case concerning the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sharing protected personal tax information with the Department of Homeland Security for the purposes of immigration enforcement. Our expertise in privacy and data sharing makes us the ideal organization to step in and inform the judge: government actions like this have real-world consequences. The IRS’s sharing, and especially bulk sharing, of data is improper and makes taxpayers vulnerable to inevitable mistakes...
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they show no sign of stopping. This incentivizes other bad actors. If companies collect any kind of personal data and want to make a quick buck, there’s a data broker willing to buy...
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