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Congress should not broadly authorize federal agencies to destroy and wiretap private drones, or give its implied endorsement to biometric screening of domestic travelers and U.S. citizens. Congress definitely should not sneak these invasive provisions into a last-minute, must-pass, thousand-page bill . Yet Congress is poised to do so. Please join EFF in saying “ no .” TAKE ACTION To keep the Federal Aviation Administration functioning, Congress must pass a reauthorization bill by September 30th. But the current bill has...
On September 13, after a five-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights said that the UK government’s surveillance regime—which includes the country’s mass surveillance programs, methods, laws, and judges—violated the human rights to privacy and to freedom of expression. The court’s opinion is the culmination of lawsuits filed by multiple privacy rights organizations, journalists, and activists who argued that the UK’s surveillance programs violated the privacy of millions. The court’s decision is a step in the right direction,...
Today, the content-delivery network Cloudflare is announcing an experimental deployment of a new web privacy technology called ESNI . We’re excited to see this development, and we look forward to a future where ESNI makes the web more private for all its users. Over the past several years, we at EFF have been working to encrypt the web . We and our partners have made huge strides to make web browsing safer and more privacy through tools like HTTPS Everywhere...
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