EFF Files New Lawsuit Against California Sheriff for Sharing ALPR Data with ICE and CBP
The Marin County Sheriff illegally shares the sensitive location information of millions of drivers with out-of-state and federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The Sheriff uses automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—high-speed cameras mounted on street poles or squad cars—to scan license...
After Years of Delays and Alarmingly Flimsy Evidence, Security Expert Ola Bini’s Trial Set for This Week
Update: In October 19th, 2021, Ola Bini's trial has been suspended by request of the Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CNT) whose representative was unable to attend the hearing. Later that year, a new date was set. The trial is set to take place from January 19th to 21th, 2022.For over...
EFF Joins Press Freedom Groups In Asking U.S. To Drop Assange Extradition Efforts
EFF has joined a coalition of press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights groups that sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging the Department of Justice to drop its efforts to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange.The renewed request comes after a Yahoo News report that the CIA...
Flight of the Concord Drones
This blog post was written by Kenny Gutierrez, EFF Bridge Fellow.The City Council of Concord, California, is tone deaf to community concerns regarding a proposed police Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (UAS) system – commonly referred to as drones. In a city where the police department is responsible for nearly ...
Global Privacy Assembly 2021
Katitza Rodriguez, EFF Policy Director for Global Privacy, will be speaking at the Global Privacy Assembly 2021 hosted by Mexico's Federal Data Protection Agency (INAI) and the Global Privacy Assembly, from October 18th-21st, 2021. The Global Privacy Assembly first met in 1979 as the International Conference of Data Protection...
California Activists Sue Marin County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing Drivers’ License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies
San Francisco—Community activists in Northern California today sued Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle for illegally sharing millions of local drivers’ license plates and location data, captured by a network of cameras his office uses, with hundreds of federal and out-of-state agencies—a practice that violates two California laws, endangers the...
Be The Face of Change and Pledge for EFF Through CFC Today!
The pledge period for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is underway and EFF needs your help! Last year, U.S. government employees raised over $38,000 for EFF through the CFC, helping us fight for privacy, free speech, and security on the internet so that we can help create a better digital...
Come Back with a Warrant: Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
We do not lose our constitutional rights at the border. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however, believes you do. In fiscal year 2019 alone (before the pandemic curbed international travel), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers conducted nearly 41,000 electronic device searches without seeking a warrant...
Meet the Alliance for Encryption in Latin America and the Caribbean
Today EFF and other internet and digital rights organizations are announcing the Alliance for Encryption in Latin America and the Caribbean (AC-LAC). The Alliance is a platform for collective capacity building and information, based on the principle that encryption is an essential tool for security and respect for human and...
Records Shed New Light on Trump White House Officials’ Efforts to Punish Social Media
Within a day of Twitter fact-checking President Donald Trump’s May 2020 false tweets about mail-in voting, federal officials began trying to find out how much government agencies spent to advertise on social media. This inquiry was likely part of a planned effort to cut that funding, according to records...
