This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastadon account. You can follow EFF on...

This week, EFF's Atlas of Surveillance project hit a bittersweet milestone. With this project, we are creating a searchable and mappable repository of which law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use surveillance technologies such as body-worn cameras, drones, automated license plate readers, and face recognition. It's one of the...

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on what the fediverse is, security and privacy on Mastodon, and how to make a Mastadon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.Something remarkable is happening. For the...

This weekend, EFF is celebrating the life and work of programmer, activist, and entrepreneur Aaron Swartz by participating in the 2022 Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon. This year, the event will be held in person at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13. It will...

En agosto, el departamento de policía de Tulsa celebró una conferencia de prensa sobre cómo sus nuevos lectores automáticos de matrículas (ALPR), una controvertida tecnología de vigilancia, eran el equivalente policial a "encender las luces" por primera vez. En Ontario, California, la ciudad publicó un comunicado de...

El Distrito de Servicios Públicos del Condado de Sacramento (SMUD) y el Departamento de Policía de Sacramento están llevando a cabo un plan ilegal de intercambio de datos, en el que la policía solicita de forma masiva los datos de consumo de energía de los clientes para hacer cumplir una...