Victory: Oakland City Council Votes to Ban Government Use of Face Surveillance
Earlier this week, Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to ban local government use of face surveillance. The amendment to Oakland’s Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance will make Oakland the third U.S. city to take this critical step toward protecting the safety, privacy, and civil liberties of its residents. Local...
SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects
Before there was Big Tech, there was "adversarial interoperability": when someone decides to compete with a dominant company by creating a product or service that "interoperates" (works with) its offerings.In tech, "network effects" can be a powerful force to maintain market dominance: if everyone is using Facebook, then your...
Post-convening Survey
Thank you for joining us in San Francisco last month for the first national convening of the Electronic Frontier Alliance! We appreciated the opportunity to bring you together.
We'd like to invite your feedback on the event, which will help us be responsive to your needs and organizing goals when planning future sessions.
A Bad Copyright Bill Moves Forward With No Serious Understanding of Its Dangers
Sharpening Our Claws: Teaching Privacy Badger to Fight More Third-Party Trackers
The latest release of Privacy Badger gives it the power to detect and block a new class of evasive, pervasive third-party trackers, including Google Analytics. Most blocking tools, like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and Firefox’s native blocking mode (using Disconect’s block lists), use human-curated lists to decide whether to block or...
House Judiciary Committee Continues Its Antitrust Inquiry Into the Internet Marketplace
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust held its second hearing on whether our antitrust laws and their enforcement are keeping up with the Internet marketplace. Notably, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple were present as witnesses along with a range of experts to follow, giving Congress a lot to...
The Design Behind EFF's New Membership Shirt
At EFF, a lot of the imagery we produce has a dystopian flavor — and with good reason. We are currently fighting battles against increased use of facial recognition tech, IMSI-catchers, and...
Hearing Thursday: EFF, ACLU Will Ask Court to Rule In Favor of Travelers Suing DHS Over Unconstitutional, Warrantless Searches of Cellphones, Laptops
Boston, Massachusetts—On Thursday, July 18, at 3:00 p.m., lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU will ask a federal judge to decide that the constitutional rights of 11 travelers were violated by the suspicionless, warrantless searches of their electronic devices at the border by the U.S....
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations
SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of AT&T customers in California to stop the telecom giant and two data location aggregators from allowing numerous entities—including bounty hunters, car dealerships, landlords, and...
Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems
Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new idea: requiring companies to report a dollar value for the data they collect from us.Some frame this reporting as a first step towards requiring companies to share with...
