Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer ...

(You can also find this episode on the Internet Archive and on YouTube.) Kate Bertash wants that digital autonomy for all of us, and she pursues it in many different ways – from teaching abortion ...

Being out in the world advocating for privacy often means having to face a chorus of naysayers and nihilists. When we spend time fighting the expansion of Automated License Plate Readers capable of ...

Despite a long history of courts ruling that government efforts to regulate speech online harm all internet users and interfere with their First Amendment rights, state and federal lawmakers continue ...

In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress ...

(You can also find this episode on the Internet Archive and on YouTube.) New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill has been writing about the intersection of privacy and technology for well over a decade; ...

It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying that he would use the law to ...

(You can also find this episode on the Internet Archive and on YouTube.) This is what Audrey Tang has worked toward as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister, a position the free software programmer has held ...

The Foilies are our annual tongue-in-cheek “awards” for agencies and officials that thwart the public's right to government information or otherwise respond outrageously to requests for documents and ...

The vendor we know the most about is Venntel, a subsidiary of the commercial agency Gravy Analytics.Its current and former clients in the US government include, at a minimum, the IRS, the DHS and its ...

Every year or so, a new Facebook scandal emerges. These blowups follow a fairly standard pattern, at least in the U.S. First, new information is revealed that the company misled users about an element ...

Episode 003 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Jumana Musa joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how the third-party doctrine is undermining our Fourth Amendment right to privacy ...