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35 Years for Your Freedom Online

In 1990, a small group saw the coming digital future and banded together to ensure that technology would empower people, not oppress them—and EFF was born. While the dangers of corporate and state forces grew alongside the internet, EFF and supporters like you faithfully rose to the occasion.

EFF at Open Sauce

EFF is excited to be at Open Sauce for the first time in San Mateo, CA! If you're attending the event, be sure to stop by EFF's table where we'll be spreading the word about our efforts to protect digital privacy and free expression online. Of course, you can...

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NYC lets AI gamble with Child Welfare

The Markup revealed in its reporting last month that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has been quietly deploying an algorithmic tool to categorize families as “high risk". Using a grab-bag of factors like neighborhood and mother’s age, this AI tool can put families under intensified scrutiny...

Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City's Flock ALPR Contract

Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer be able to use the surveillance network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city.Two years...

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