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The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the important and historic step of passing the U.S. House of Representatives. In an era when it often seems like Congress cannot pass much-needed privacy protections,...

Police can use these surveillance tools to see the devices of people who attended a protest, follow them home, and target them for more surveillance, harassment, and retribution.

In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the targeted advertising industry, fueled by personal information harvested from our cell phone applications, has run roughshod over our privacy. Worse, the boundaries between corporate surveillance and government...

It's here! EFF's 2022 Annual Report is live and highlights our work powered by digital freedom supporters around the world.2022 was a big year: we had 17 legal and legislative victories, and an average of 78 press mentions per day globally. EFF spoke with the power of 34,500 members worldwide on...

Fog Reveal has been used without a warrant in roughly 18 cases, according to an agency spokesperson.

Earlier this year, a cross-team group of EFF technologists, researchers, activists, and lawyers broke the story of Fog Data Science, a secretive data broker that sells cops access to huge quantities of people's precise location data. The data they use is harvested from our phone apps, sent to data...

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The data tool enables law enforcement officers to see “patterns of life,” where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit.

Fog Reveal raises enormous privacy and civil liberties concerns, writes Anne Toomey McKenna. Yet it may be permissible because the U.S. lacks a comprehensive federal data privacy law. By Anne Toomey McKenna  University of Richmond By Anne Toomey McKenna  University of Richmond Government ag

To check the apps you are allowing to access your geolocation data, go to Settings/Privacy/Location Services and look at the list. All of those apps have your permission to track your every move and sell that information to other companies.