There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sound quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything but.“Stealth crawlers” are ...

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic ...

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that ...

When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the ...

This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is ...

Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing ...

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify people's cell phones, also known as IMSI catchers or ...

Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New ...

(Note: This post is also cross-posted on the Let's Encrypt blog)As announced earlier this year, Let's Encrypt now issues IP address and six-day certificates to the general public. The Certbot team ...

For years, EFF has pushed technology companies to make real human rights commitments—and to live up to them. In response to growing evidence that Palantir’s tools help power abusive immigration ...

In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography. That tip would ultimately lead to the ...

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