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Defend Privacy and Free Speech Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and support the mission to defend civil liberties and human rights online.

Online privacy & free expression are crucial to combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen human rights. Learn more when you pick up the new book Privacy's Defender as an EFF member. supporters.eff.org/donate/join...

Privacy Loves Company Most of the internet’s blessings—the opportunities for communities to connect despite physical borders and oppressive controls, the avenues to hold the powerful accountable without immediate

Good privacy decisions begin with proper knowledge about your situation—and we’ve got you covered. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

AI Impact Summit: Empty rhetoric fails public in Delhi meet amid elite push AI Summits: AI Impact Summit in Delhi exposed tokenism and elite capture behind inclusion claims. From Bletchley to Paris leaders tout safety and innovation critics flag algorithmic harms, biometric s...

In a piece for the Deccan Herald @jenitennison.com recently shared her reflections on the AI Impact Summit including that the advertising banners on the sides of the road read ‘AI stands for All Inclusive’. The reassuring words were there but they rang hollow.

www.deccanherald.com/opinion/empt...

Briefing launch: The risks of Palantir in the NHS - Medact Calendar Join us for a webinar launch of our report on the risks of Palantir in the NHS and how you can resist its encroachment into our health system and the UK state.

Join us on Monday to discuss why the NHS should say no to Palantir in the NHS
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Sexual and Reproductive Justice (SRJ) activists are operating in legally restrictive environments and consequently facing heightened risk of surveillance by law enforcement and nefarious actors.

Fake Temu Coin airdrop uses ClickFix trick to install stealthy malware A fake $TEMU crypto airdrop uses the ClickFix trick to make victims run malware themselves and quietly installs a remote-access backdoor.

If a website asks you to press Win+R and paste something into a command prompt: don't.

Keep in Mind The Whole Landscape - Privacy Guides Privacy isn't just about the tools, or just about the laws, or just about the practices either. It's about all of it. Learn how to consider the whole landscape.

Privacy isn't just about the tools, the laws, or the culture, it's about all of it together.

🧰 From our Privacy Activist Toolbox, learn more on how to:

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Last year we highlighted the dangers of real name policies, especially for marginalized groups such as #transgender and gender diverse people. 📝

Kansas enacted a law that invalidates all #trans people’s licenses and IDs, forcing them to obtain a new one with incorrect gender markers. 🪪

⚠️ This […]

Nextcloud signs open letter against Android developer verification - Nextcloud Nextcloud joins more than 30 organizations in signing an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program.

Nextcloud joins open letter opposing #Android developer verification program. Because we don’t need more control from #BigTech, do we? 🤦

Like dozens of other signatories, we don’t think this is about #datasecurity…

Read our opinion and the full letter: 👉

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Joint Statement on New Finnish Social Welfare Laws’ Human Rights Implications Finland's new social welfare legal reforms pose threats to human rights, including the right to privacy, Privacy International, the European Disability Forum and a Finnish Disability Forum representa

📣 Finland's new social welfare legal reforms pose a serious threats to human rights. privacyinternational.org/advocacy/572...

What does it mean when Big Tech goes to war? AI firms are still struggling to work with the US Department of War/Defence. OpenAI is grappling with its own contract with the U.S.

The United States government and huge AI companies are using your data as part of the war machine.

Their ethics have been breached. The red lines have been crossed.

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Could VPNs be banned in the UK? We asked the experts The government has launched a public consultation into whether VPNs should be age-restricted

"There is little evidence that young people are using VPNs to bypass digital ID checks imposed by the Online Safety Act."

Age gating them "will have little impact on children's online safety but will deter adults from using them or force people to hand over personal documents or biometric data."

This analogy works perfectly, also in the sense that Uber with its focus on cars on demand managed to steer attention and money away from things like public transit and bike safety

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech and the new authoritarianism In the shadow of the fascism of the 1930s, George Orwell wrote 1984. A new study suggests that his world is closer than we want to think

Don’t let Big Tech & AI fool you in the era of technofascism.

Mark Coeckelbergh (Univ. of Vienna) warns:
🔸Algorithms showing only half of reality vs. overt censorship
🔸Pleasure & distraction on social platforms vs. fear

👉 eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/te...

Briefing: Concerns Regarding Palantir Technologies and NHS Data Systems - Medact This briefing document outlines the key concerns regarding the involvement of Palantir Technologies in NHS data infrastructure and operations, including via their delivery of the FDP.

Find out why we're saying no to Palantir in the NHS
www.medact.org/2026/resourc...

New Castle Police Department program asks residents to register security cameras for police use New Castle police have started a program asking residents and business owners to register their security cameras for police use.

“What should be happening is if police have good reason to suspect your camera caught evidence of a crime, they should go to a judge and they should get a warrant," EFF’s Matthew Guraiglia told KDKA. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/...

US data analytics firm Palantir may have access to your sensitive health data.

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Don't Stop at Individual Solutions, Consider The Collective Impact - Privacy Guides When we think about privacy, we often focus on technical individual solutions. But it's also crucial to consider the collective impact of privacy issues.

We often focus on privacy tools. But it's vital to also consider how the laws and practices impact us.

🧰 From our Privacy Activist Toolbox, learn more on how to:

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DOJ Wants Sensitive Voter Data but Can’t Be Bothered to Protect It <p>Midterms loom. Congress’s failure to rein in a runaway Executive has not endeared voters. “Shock and awe” tactics do not make for good governance and may cost dearly at the polls. But the White…

The DOJ is demanding states hand over their voter registration rolls. EPIC's latest analysis dives into how the Department says it'll protect this highly sensitive data.

TL;DR: Their plan is so bad it might be illegal. epic.org/doj-wants-se...

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

In defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke (leighfinke.bsky.social) was not radical—she was right. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Big Idea: Cindy Cohn When you’re trying to get folks excited about their own digital rights, a lot will depend on the examples you give them to understand the fight. As the Executive Director of the Electronic Fr…

New on @scalzi.com’s Whatever: EFF’s Cindy Cohn shares “The Big Idea” behind her new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” - getting a new generation to understand and join the fight.

Microsoft Authenticator could leak login codes—update your app now A bug in Microsoft Authenticator on Android and iOS could allow malicious apps on the same device to intercept authentication codes or sign-in links.

A vulnerability in Microsoft Authenticator could leak your one-time sign-in codes.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/03/microsoft-authenticator-could-leak-login-codes-update-your-app-now?utm_campaign=brandsocial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Want to quit Google? Read this article by Tuta👇

How is this surprising? Peter Thiel has been saying similar things for decades.

Analysis of the Disclosures following the ICO Enforcement Notice on GPS Tagging of Migrants GPS tags are intrusive data collection tools that monitor and record the location of the wearer using satellite and mobile technology, collecting location data referred to as “trail data” at certain…

Our analysis of the UK's GPS tagging of migrants shows that it has not adequately addressed the data protection violations identified by the UK data protection authority and also it has pushed legislation that overlooks its findings completely 👉 privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...

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