Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cloaked & EFF
What Europe’s New Gig Work Law Means for Unions and Technology
At EFF, we believe that tech rights are worker’s rights. Since the pandemic, workers of all kinds have been subjected to increasingly invasive forms of bossware. These are the “algorithmic management” tools that surveil workers on and off the job, often running on devices that (nominally) belong...
Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere
In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth trackers that make it easy for stalkers and the company itself to track the location of Tile devices.Tile trackers are small Bluetooth trackers, similar to Apple’s Airtags, but...
Hey, San Francisco, There Should be Consequences When Police Spy Illegally
A San Francisco supervisor has proposed that police and other city agencies should have no financial consequences for breaking a landmark surveillance oversight law. In 2019, organizations from across the city worked together to help pass that law, which required law enforcement to get the approval of democratically...
#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here
This is the tenth and final installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather data...
#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here
When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather data and lift up stories of censorship, and hold social media companies accountable for the harm they have caused to the reproductive rights movement. Here are the key lessons from this campaign:
Tips to Protect Your Posts About Reproductive Health From Being Removed
This is the ninth installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. Meta has been getting content moderation wrong for years, like most platforms that host user-generated content. Sometimes it’s a result of deliberate design choices—privacy...
Privacy Harm Is Harm
Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. We shouldn’t need to prove we’ve suffered additional...
The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users
The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the order is allegedly limited to only apply to British users. That doesn’t make it...
❌ How Meta Is Censoring Abortion | EFFector 37.13
It's spooky season—but while jump scares may get your heart racing, catching up on digital rights news shouldn't! Our EFFector newsletter has got you covered with easy, bite-sized updates to keep you up-to-date.In this issue, we spotlight new ALPR-enhanced police drones and how local communities can push back;...
