Certbot Usability Case Study: Making It Easier To Get HTTPS Certificates
When EFF launched the Certbot tool in 2016, our goal was to help website administrators secure their sites with HTTPS certificates. Since then, our technology and design teams have received feedback from users about their barriers to using Certbot, how they find it, what makes it useful, and what a...
Hearing Thursday: EFF Urges Appeals Court to Curb Police Access to ALPR Databases
San Francisco – On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge the California Court of Appeal to reverse a lower court and hold that law enforcement use of data gathered from automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems is a search that requires a warrant.ALPRs are computer-controlled camera...
San Diego’s Face Recognition Program and Collaboration with ICE Needs to Stop
Law enforcement officials across San Diego County, California have run more than 65,500 face recognition scans over the last three years, including thousands of queries by federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Marshals. According to records obtained by EFF, the Tactical...
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
EFF and Partners Urge U.S. Lawmakers to Support New DoH Protocol for a More Secure Internet
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today called on Congress to support implementation of an Internet protocol that encrypts web traffic, a critical tool that will lead to dramatic improvements in user privacy and help impede the ability of governments to track and censor people.EFF, joined by Consumer Reports and...
Apple’s Split Brain: Building Levers for Improved Security or Content Censorship?
For many years, Chinese users of Apple devices have had a very different experience from non-Chinese users. Chinese users can’t type or see the Taiwanese flag emoji (which has even caused severe bugs in the past); iCloud backups and encryption keys for Chinese users are stored locally within...
EFF to Amazon and Shaq: Stop Pushing Police Partnerships with Doorbell Camera Company
Chicago – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging Amazon, along with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, to cancel an event promoting Ring home-surveillance cameras at a police chiefs’ conference in Chicago later this month. EFF and many other civil liberties and privacy organizations are growing increasingly concerned about privacy-invasive partnerships...
EFF Challenges Ring Spokesperson Shaq Over Privacy Concerns
Join EFF In Our Challenge to Ring Spokesperson Shaq Over Privacy Concerns
EFF is challenging Shaq to a one-on-one: not on the basketball court, but across the table, so we can discuss with him how the ubiquitous surveillance facilitated by Ring and its privacy-invasive partnerships with police can harm communities.
Ready to Pay $30,000 for Sharing a Photo Online? The House of Representatives Thinks You Are
Tomorrow the House of Representatives has scheduled to vote on what appears to be an unconstitutional copyright bill that carries with it life altering penalties. The bill would slap $30,000 fines on Internet users who share a copyrighted work they don’t own online.Take ActionNow is the time...
