To celebrate 30 years of defending online freedom, EFF was proud to welcome NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for a chat about surveillance, privacy, and the concrete ways we can improve our digital world, as part of our EFF30 Fireside Chat series.
Today we’re launching Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. If you are a subject, we will tell you how your browser is...
Facebook ha lanzado recientemente una campaña publicitándose a sí mismo como el protector de las pequeñas empresas. Este es un intento risible de Facebook para distraerlo de su pobre historial de comportamiento anticompetitivo y problemas de privacidad mientras trata de descarrilar los cambios pro-privacidad de...
Three members of Congress have joined the fight for the right to protest by sending a letter to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to investigate federal surveillance against protesters. We commend these elected officials for doing what they can to help ensure our constitutional right to...
Muchos de los nuevos poderes de vigilancia que ahora busca el gobierno para abordar la crisis de COVID-19 perjudicarían nuestros derechos de la Primera Enmienda en los años venideros. La gente se asustará y desanimará en cuanto a hablar, protestar en lugares públicos y asociarse con defensores de ideas afines...
In some areas of the United States, local governments are sharing the names and addresses of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 with police and other first responders. This is intended to keep police, EMTs, and firefighters safe should they find themselves headed to a call at the residence...
In the current moment, governments may be tempted to funnel scarce public health resources into the use of face recognition to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health crises, especially a global pandemic, may require extraordinary measures in favor of the public good—but invasive face surveillance is not in...
En todo el mundo, las autoridades de salud pública están trabajando para contener la propagación de COVID-19 (Enfermedad del Coronavirus 2019). En la búsqueda de esta urgente y necesaria tarea, muchas agencias gubernamentales están recogiendo y analizando información personal sobre un gran número de personas identificables, incluyendo su salud,...
