#EFF to State AGs: Investigate #Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government

#surveillance #privacy #ICE #politics

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“PSA 🎧 EFFector is out now on your favorite podcast player! Bi-weekly episodes covering privacy, free speech, and your digital rights—explained by the people fighting for them. https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/s...”

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ICYMI, be sure you catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, @eff Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Cindy sat down with us in Ann Arbor, MI to discuss her work, the origins of the EFF, her latest book “Privacy’s Defender,” and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Watch now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc

#EFF #Interview #PrivacysDefender #CindyCohn #DigitalRights #Privacy #Security #Law

Hot Off the Press: #EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico #Border

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/hot-press-effs-updated-guide-tech-us-mexico-border

#privacy #surveillance #politics #US #Mexico

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“More of the web is encrypted than ever before! And it's thanks to strong advocacy, hard work, and tools like EFF's Certbot. Help support privacy and free speech today. https:// eff.org/support-certbot”

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“Think you can ace the EFFector news quiz? Test your digital rights knowledge on our latest podcast episode. You can also hear EFF's Adam Schwartz explain surveillance 'mission creep.' https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/20...”

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“Quantum computers are coming sooner than expected. Now's a good time to check if your encrypted messenger has moved to post-quantum cryptography. https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/yike s-encryptions-y2k-moment-c...”

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#BookReview: "#Privacy's Defender" by #CindyCohn

https://ghost.thenewoil.org/book-review-privacys-defender-by-cindy-cohn/

#blog #EarlyAccess #EFF

In one hour, catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, EFF's outgoing Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Her first major case with the EFF, Bernstein v. United States, established the "right to code" and dismantled the USA's unconstitutional ban on encryption exports, paving the way for people to develop technologies like PGP and other strong encryption tools without having to register as an "arms dealer" and face government restrictions on publishing their ideas.

In her career since she's represented many historic cases: suing AT&T for secretly collaborating with the NSA (Hepting v. AT&T), Sony for installing malware DRM, a vote machine company abusing copyright law to silence criticism, the DVD Copy Control Association attacking freedom of speech, and many other fights against the NSA and for internet freedom.

Cohn has been with @eff for over 30 years, and succeeded Shari Steele to become EFF's Executive Director in 2015. Our interview discusses her works and legacy, the origins of the EFF, and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Premiering soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc

#EFF #Interview #CindyCohn #DigitalRights #InternetHistory #Privacy #Security #Law

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#EFF’s Submission to the #UN OHCHR on Protection of #HumanRights Defenders in the Digital Age

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/effs-submission-un-ohchr-protection-human-rights-defenders-digital-age

#privacy #politics

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“EFF’s Matthew Guariglia joined @ wnpr 's "Where We Live" to discuss whether mass surveillance and civil liberties can co-exist. (Spoiler alert: They can’t.) https://www. ctpublic.org/show/where-we-liv e/2026-03-3...”

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Governments from Australia to Canada are requiring online age verification, forcing users to share personal IDs to access content. These measures raise serious privacy, security, and freedom-of-speech risks for all users 🌐

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/global-age-verification-measures-2024-year-review

#TechNews #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #DigitalRights #EFF #Privacy #UserControl #FOSS #InternetFreedom #Freedom #DataSecurity #Transparency #OpenSource #CyberLaw #Anonymity #Surveillance

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“To find out what kind of surveillance tech you may be facing at a protest, check out our Atlas of Surveillance: https://www. atlasofsurveillance.org/ . (3/7)”

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#EFF Sues for Answers About #Medicare's #AI Experiment

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-answers-about-medicares-ai-experiment

#privacy #politics

#NicoleOzer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/nicole-ozer-named-electronic-frontier-foundations-executive-director

#EFF #privacy #cybersecurity #politics #Ozer

Google's Developer Verification mandates real-identity registration for app developers starting September 2026 on certified Android devices 📱.

F-Droid, EFF, and FSF warn it threatens open-source repos, centralizes Google control, and endangers developer privacy 🔒.

@fdroid
@eff
@fsf

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/

#TechNews #Android #Google #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #Developers #Security #Freedom #Sideloading #EFF #F-Droid #UserChoice #Regulation #DigitalRights

@EUCommission
OK, but it is not sufficient to declare child safety trumps all else.

- Child safety IS an indespensible essential that must be addressed to save abuses & death

- The right to privacy IS ALSO an indespensible essential to save abuses & death

You cannot and must not make achieving either ascendent over the other, but you MUST find solutions that maximize BOTH!

For example, privacy preserving age verification that works on-device to send an age verification token that varies each time it's used (like Aegis' 2FA code generator) but doesn't leak/reveal identity. Or, perhaps identity is revealed only below an age threshold, so no identity implies old enough - requiring one time visit to trusted party (police) with phone to calibrate and then use that as proof for other device use. I'm sure #eff will have some well thought out ideas around this.

Under an umbrella of 'online safety', Child protection advocates and privacy advocates must work together for an equitable solution.

Google will require government ID from all Android developers by Sept 2026, even for non-Play Store apps like F-Droid. 🧩

Brave, EFF, and Tor say this "developer registry" risks privacy for volunteers and kills Android's openness. 🛡️

@brave
@eff
@torproject

🔗 https://brave.com/blog/why-brave-opposes-android-developer-registry

#TechNews #Privacy #Android #Google #Government #ID #Brave #EFF #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Developers #Surveillance #Apps #FDroid #Mobile #Security #DigitalRights #Brave #Tor

Anthropic is in court arguing the U.S. government can’t force it to weaken AI guardrails so the Pentagon can use its models for mass surveillance ⚖️

EFF and others back Anthropic, saying compelled code changes for AI monitoring violate the First Amendment and turbocharge already unchecked surveillance 🛡️

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/government-must-not-force-companies-participate-ai-powered-surveillance

#TechNews #Privacy #Anthropic #Pentagon #Surveillance #AI #CivilLiberties #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights #BigTech #Government #Security #US #Freedom #EFF

@eff
> most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity

Not at all. This is a strawmen meticously built by #bigTech lobbyists.

The #agever is possible without giving up privacy of the users. Just there is no "political will" to make it this way. Once upon a time I tried to push such non-intruding system through RFC editor. I had been told it would be "against policy to be not political" and it will not get thru the IETF. It did not help I was a co-founder of the ISOC Chapter in my country.

Will #eff support going thru the IETF process against all that money that is now close to get the whole planet biometrics reaped/robbed? If so I might revive this RFC sketch and bring it to the current times.

#EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/eff-third-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

#privacy #politics

"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."

California's computer age verification law is poison. The new California age verification law is a version of INGSOC's telescreen watching you. And the usual self-proclaimed software freedom fighters are AWOL as this attack on your freedom is executed.

Don't listen to apologists who claim this isn't a big deal. It is a huge deal. This law is not about protecting children. The California law is a ruse for laying the foundation and precedent for mandatory remote control of all operating systems. They are using children as a shield for their true intentions. It's called a 'subterfuge' or a 'pretext' to hide the real rationale. And in politics subterfuge is very common. These politicians don't care about your children. They care about control and information is control. Compliance with California's new law is highly corrosive to free software and deadly to personal privacy.

With the mandatory age verification API in place, legislators can later add more laws mandating retrieval of even more privacy-invasive information just to install and use any operating system. This is Big Brother's telescreen in your living room. And the Linux community is nearly silent on the matter, instead focused on artificial intelligence investment.

Where were the software freedom organizations when California was mandating installation of #spyware in all free and open source operating systems? Did they oppose it? Or did they support it by silence? The California age verification law is the greatest threat to software freedom in recent history., striking right at the root of software installation for all users. Yet (((crickets))).

Is silence really tacit support?

"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."

Where were they when this mandatory spyware infrastructure was being shoved down our throats? Where were the self-proclaimed software freedom fighters? Where were the calls to action? I didn't see any.

Is silence golden ... or is gold buying silence?

Let these organizations know that you oppose California's age verification spyware law and that you expect them to rally in defense of true software freedom--freedom from government oversight of your software systems. Parents--and not the spyware state--should protect their children. The government is neither your parent nor your god nor your savior and the people should send a clear message stating that.

California, stay out of my operating system! And stay the hell away from children!

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#EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches

#privacy #politics #SCOTUS

National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s #Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/national-book-tour-cindy-cohns-memoir-privacys-defender

#privacy #EFF #PrivacysDefender #CindyCohn #book

RE: https://mastodon.social/@effaustin/116132076492780407

📅 Save the date! Nate Bartram and Jonah Aragon will be in Austin, TX on March 13 to host a live, in-person episode of 🔴 This Week in Privacy; then attend EFF-Austin's party at The Butterfly Bar/Vortex!!

If you're in town, come say hi to @nateb and @jonah, and find out more about privacy from all the excellent guest speakers 💛

#Austin #EFFAustin #Party #AustinTX #EFF #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #Events

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-search-0

A federal appeals court ruled that police can’t use overly broad search warrants to scrape everything on someone’s phone or digital accounts after a protest — like texts, photos, location history, or social media.

The court said those warrants were too vague and violated basic Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

#privacy #digitalrights #EFF #civilrights #surveillance

#Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing #Surveillance
#DepartmentofDefense (#DoD)has reportedly threatened to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” in retribution for not lifting restrictions on how their technology is used.
#Anthropic #AI should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their #technology to be used in the two ways they have publicly stated they would not support: autonomous weapons systems and surveillance. - #EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance

Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance

#HackerNews #TechCompanies #Surveillance #Privacy #Rights #DigitalFreedom #EFF

@eff :D ideally accompanied by this shirt

https://shop.eff.org/products/lets-sue-the-government-t-shirt #EFF #suethegovernment

In case you had any illusions that Zuckerberg and his Facebook/Meta/Instagram/Threads/WhatsApp empire wasn’t evil, this should take care of it.

“The New York Times reported that Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses. According to an internal Meta document, the company may launch the product “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.””

#eff #facebook #meta #privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

Electronic Frontier Foundation is backing the ICE Out of Our Faces Act, a bill to ban biometric surveillance by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/yes-ice-out-my-face-act

#eff #ice #ban #biometric #surveillance #cbp #bill
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CyberInsider reports on the new “Encrypt It Already” campaign, pushing Big Tech to make strong end‑to‑end encryption the default across popular platforms 🔐📱 Read more: https://cyberinsider.com/encrypt-it-already-campaign-demands-strong-e2ee-across-popular-platforms/ #EncryptItAlready #E2EE #Privacy
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