Law enforcement agencies around the country have been all too eager to adopt mass surveillance technologies, but sometimes they have put little effort into ensuring the systems are secure and the sensitive data they collect on everyday people is protected.
Case in point: automated license plate recognition (ALPR)...

Today the United States released its third National Action Plan (NAP) setting out its latest commitments as a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP is a voluntary initiative in which participating governments agree to certain high-level aspirations to improve transparency and public participation in government,...

Crack open a Club-Mate and raise a glass to strong crypto. There’s reason to celebrate.
Today, the 100,000th person signed our petition calling on President Obama to reject compelled backdoors in our communications.
The campaign, hosted at SaveCrypto.org, uses the White House's We the...

CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, advanced in a procedural vote last week and will have its final vote today, Tuesday. EFF continues to strongly oppose the bill.
Today, the bill's sponsors released an amendment previewing the final version of the bill. It's the second time in...

Since our last update on the upcoming net neutrality regulation in the European Union, a further compromise proposal has been developed, which heads to a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday next week. On its face, the draft regulation appears to hit all the most important points, including...

The Intelligence Support System (ISS) World Latin America Trade Show, hosted in Mexico City during October 20 to 22, where secret surveillance systems and equipment vendors gather to meet and sell their products to governments, escalates concerns surrounding increased and unchecked use of surveillance technology in Latin America.
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Senators Grassley and Leahy, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, have published a letter to the Copyright Office asking it to analyze the impact of copyright law on “software-enabled devices” (such as cars, phones, drones, appliances, and many more products with embedded computer systems). This...