Now for a limited time, the Privacy Badger badge from DEF CON 32 is back! Place your order by July 24 to get the badge by the con, and support the cookie destroying badger: badgelife.eventbrite.com

Enough electricity to power 3 million homes. That's the scale of the AI data center buildout happening around San Antonio. Texas should build infrastructure that serves Texans, not just the Greedy Few.

Manufacturers are locking you out of your own devices. EFF's legal and policy team joins Adam Savage and iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens on July 23rd to explain how—and how the Right to Repair movement is fighting back. eff.org/livestream-r2r

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Whether you're a kid or a kid at heart, EFF's new puffy stickers are perfect for digital devices, lunchboxes, and notebooks alike. Grab a set when you support EFF today: eff.org/summer

Thanks to pressure from developers and digital rights advocates, California lawmakers fixed AB 1856 by protecting open-source projects and keeping age-signaling off websites. Here is why EFF is moving to a neutral position on the bill: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and

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Catch up on digital rights news during your commute with the EFFector podcast! This week: the KIDS Act and what it would mean for the open internet. Listen here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13

The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what

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Gamers need to push back on rent-only copyright culture before it’s too late. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Sony Nerfs Videogame Ownership

Playstation’s decision to kill physical game discs is the latest attack on our diminishing rights to access and engage with culture digitally. Rent-seeking corporations and negligent lawmakers share

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California legislators have backed down from a plan to expand age-gating to web browsers and websites under AB 1856. Because of this critical change and new protections for open-source developers, EFF has removed our opposition to the bill. Read our full update: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and

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The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. The KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see and say online. Learn more with this week's EFFector newsletter and podcast: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13

The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what

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The EU’s General Court has ensured competitive fairness and openness in the digital marketplace by rejecting Apple’s attempt to escape its interoperability requirements under the Digital Markets Act: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off its Interoperability

One of the best bulwarks against monopoly is interoperability—that is making a new product or service work with an existing product or service. Interoperability allows users, and not the

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“Anytime a company collects highly sensitive personal data, there are risks the data will be shared, breached, or later seized by the government,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @sfchronicle.com. “Companies should ask themselves, is violating everyone’s privacy worth it?”

Grocery Outlet Bay Area stores are using facial recognition technology to catch shoplifters

Grocery Outlet has begun using facial recognition in some Bay Area stores to identify suspected shoplifters.

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Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight

Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back

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Lack of transparency around how AI tools might be used in creating or changing policy is particularly worrisome, “so having access to the prompts is really the best way to be able to tell what officials are using these tools for and how harmful those uses might be,” EFF’s Tori Noble told @WIRED.com.

DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

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Journalists often cite medical journal articles in news coverage of everything from outbreaks to drug recalls to promising new treatments. When they’re censored, so is the news that reaches newspaper pages and the public.

Censorship of medical journals infects journalism too

Why are government quacks like RFK Jr. grading doctors’ homework?

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They're only using Play Integrity if GrapheneOS shows a notice about it being used. Make sure to try the per-app exploit protection compatibility mode before assuming it can't be used on GrapheneOS. It likely only needs a subset of the compatibility options, perhaps only disabling secure spawning.

Just today after an update, DBS locked me out for "root/jailbreak" on @grapheneos.org. Locked bootloader, verified boot, no root. Just detecting the absence of Google. Play Integrity is just a vendor allowlist wearing a security costume, yet more Singapore apps treat it as ground truth. Shame.

Android's security policy for the past several years has been to backport patches for Critical and High severity Android vulnerabilities to the past 3 major yearly releases. Moderate and Low severity patches including most fixes for privacy weaknesses have required upgrading to the latest releases.