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The History of Surveillance and the Black Community

February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of "national security." Indeed, the history of surveillance in the African-American community plays an important role in the debate around spying today and in the calls for a congressional...

FTC Spring Privacy Series: Mobile Device Tracking

EFF Senior Staff Technologist Seth Schoen will speak at a seminar with the Federal Trade Commission about the technology and accompanying consumer privacy concerns that arise from mobile device tracking. Retailers and other businesses now have the ability to track customers' movements and collect meta data via the signals emitted...

How Big Was The Day We Fight Back?

This is Michigan Stadium, the largest football stadium by capacity in the United States. It fits 109,901 people.

Imagine two Michigan Stadiums, filled to capacity, with 219,802 people. Imagine that all those people are doing the same thing at the same time—contacting Congress and demanding an...

The Day We Fought Back

February 11, 2014—The Day We Fought Back. We started something.
Of course, the battle didn’t begin today. The groups that organized this action have long been pushing hard for real surveillance reform. But we knew that the time was ripe—that the Snowden leaks, unrelenting media pressure, grassroots activism,...

Today We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance


Since June, ongoing revelations about the NSA's activities have shown us the expanding scope of government surveillance. Today is the day people around the world are demanding an end to mass spying.
A broad coalition of organizations, companies, and individuals are loudly voicing their stance...

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The Day The World Fought Back

Mass surveillance of electronic communications is a vast, new, government intrusion on the privacy of innocent people worldwide. It is a violation of International human rights law. Without checks and balances, its use will continue to spread from country to country, corrupting democracies and empowering dictators.

That’s why, today, on...

EFF at SXSWi

Everything's bigger in Texas, including EFF presentations. If you're a badgeholder at South by Southwest, make sure to catch the following EFF talks:
Clubbing Patent Trolls: How We Can Fight Back
Friday, March 7, 3:30-4:30 PM, Austin Convention Center, Room 10AB
Innovators face a growing...

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