A First Amendment jawboning lawsuit in Illinois against the federal government can move forward. The suit claims the Attorney General illegally coerced Apple and Facebook to disable user content that tracked ICE activity.
Mario Trujillo
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senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“federal law enforcement has engaged in extensive misconduct — ranging from attacking protesters to destroying evidence and misrepresenting facts in court”
They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling.
The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.
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From me, and the WIRED leadership team. Proud of WIRED today and every day, and we’re not slowing down on our reporting about MSG or anything else.
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoA statement from WIRED leadership.
After reading @zackwhittaker.com’s articles poking at Oura I was curious if the industry had improved at all since I last looked and… the answer was a flashing “lol no“ sign www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features
Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide...
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Most health wearable companies don’t publish transparency reports, or even promise to tell their users when the government demands their data
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 3w agoHealth data is some of our most personal data, and most wearables companies are behind the times when it comes to basic privacy practices and transparency. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
As reporting continues to surface about Madison Square Garden using facial recognition tech to identify, harass & ban people, it's important to highlight the many venues have prioritized artist & patron safety by pledging NOT to use this tech.
“I hear a lot of privacy nihilism from people, like, ‘They already have our data, they’re already surveilling us,’” EFF’s @lisafemia.bsky.social told @mercurynews.com, but surveillance isn’t inevitable. “There’s a real misunderstanding of data and its sensitivity.”
Surveillance technology is inevitable. Or is it?
From doorbell cameras to automated license plate readers, public surveillance has expanded rapidly since 2020. Is the tide finally turning? We sit down with Electronic Freedom Foundation attorney Lisa...
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EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using di...
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Matt Blaze@mattblaze.org · 4w agoIf I got a threatening lawyer letter like this, my first response would be to take a deep breath and not freak out. Then I'd call/email someone with experience dealing with this stuff, like our friends at EFF. In fact, that's exactly what I've done when I've actually gotten threats like this.
Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Chatire (the geofence warrants case). For a 6-3 majority (with Thomas, Alito, and Barrett dissenting), Justice Kagan holds that a geofence warrant *is* a Fourth Amendment search, but the Court remands to see if the Fourth Amendment was actually violated:
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"Becoming a parent didn't make me want the government to restrict the world for my children; it made me realize how vital it was that they be allowed to inhabit it freely." @davidgreene.bsky.social
They Said I'd Feel Different About Free Speech as a Parent. They Were Wrong.
EFF senior counsel David Greene says in the haste to "protect" children, we are mischaracterizing who young people are and what speech rights they have.
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Anything can be an inaccurate law enforcement surveillance system if you try hard enough www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/h...
“The wall is a physical manifestation of this government’s attitude toward migrants. Nothing could be less Catholic.”
A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall
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“At the risk of saying more obvious things, the difference between a helpful private agent, a corporate advertising bot, and a government spy comes down mainly to a matter of prompting, and maybe a bit of model fine-tuning.”
Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...
“As a criminal defense lawyer, I wouldn’t probably endorse the vast majority of my clients, current or former, if they were running for Senate.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...
Ken Paxton’s Former Lawyer Endorses His Democratic Opponent
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Very helpful recap of the gender-affirming-care subpoena cases. Like Stanford, I fear that the suits against Stanford and NYU might "result in the worst-case scenario for the plaintiffs." Today's hearing in San Jose might offer more clarity. www.cnn.com/2026/06/05/p...
Trump administration escalates legal push for medical records of trans minors | CNN Politics
Parents said in court papers they’re worried that having records disclosed could expose them to retaliation by the Trump administration.
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Meta is unhappy b/c they handed us a boiler plate statement that just repeats things we already wrote at the top of the piece (minus calling our work "sensational"). We sent Meta a full explanation of what was in the piece and provided 10 detailed questions. They refused to answer any of them.
CalPrivacy joined 18 AGs and state agencies to oppose the SECURE Data Act, a bill that seeks to remove existing state privacy laws and block new ones. Millions could end up less protected. We’re urging Congress – let states protect their residents: privacy.ca.gov/2026/06/the-...
Next week, I'll be a witness before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the civil liberties implications of mass AI deployment in cybersecurity and homeland security.
House panel poised to hold hearing centered on AI impact on cyber
A House subcommittee has set a June 4 hearing on how frontier AI models impact cybersecurity, featuring testimony from Google and Frontier Model Forum experts.
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ICYMI: DOJ is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, issuing grand jury subpoenas to the companies as it escalates efforts to identify critics of the Trump administration's deportation efforts buff.ly/xNSIF16 (gift link)
As part of California's privacy settlement with GM, the company must produce yearly privacy assessments to the government. Those reports are exempt from public records laws "to the extent permitted" by law. oag.ca.gov/system/files...
The SECURE Act is not a serious piece of privacy legislation. To take one example, this is not real data minimization: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF is helping ICEBlock sue the government for coercing Apple into removing it from their app store: www.eff.org/cases/aaron-...
Aaron v. Bondi
EFF is helping represent ICEBlock in its First Amendment lawsuit. ICEBlock is a popular iPhone app that allows the public to report immigration activity in their communities. The company and its creat...
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EFF is helping the iPhone app ICEBlock sue the government for First Amendment retaliation and coercion. You can read about and track the lawsuit here: www.eff.org/cases/aaron....
Aaron v. Bondi
EFF is helping represent ICEBlock in its First Amendment lawsuit. ICEBlock is a popular iPhone app that allows the public to report immigration activity in their communities. The company and its
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Virginia became the third state to ban companies from selling precise location data. All it took was 12 words. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/vi...
That Greg Hogan, who filed "misleading" declarations under penalty of perjury in our DOGE lawsuit www.eff.org/files/2025/0...
Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · 3mo agoGreg Hogan—associated with DOGE—is now in charge of the government’s identity proofing system, Login .gov, which has over 150 million users. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Justice Alito asked where is the consumer anger about geofence warrants Imagine the outcry if Google sent you 13,574 emails every year notifying you each time your data had been searched
