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Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker | July 10, 2025

EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword

Online queries can give insight into our private details and innermost thoughts, but police increasingly access them without adhering to longstanding limits on government investigative power.

Deeplinks Blog by José Martinez | July 10, 2025

No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces

California has introduced S.B. 627 to prohibit law enforcement from covering their faces during encounters with the public, in response to masked ICE agent actions.

Press Release | July 10, 2025

EFF Investigation: AI Product for Police Reports is Designed to Hinder Audits

SAN FRANCISCO – Axon Enterprise's Draft One product, which uses generative artificial intelligence to write police report narratives based on body-worn camera audio, seems designed to stymie any attempts at auditing, transparency, and accountability, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) investigation has found. The investigation – based...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Dave Maass | July 10, 2025

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of public records from police agencies already using...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Beryl Lipton | July 10, 2025

EFF's Guide to Getting Records About Axon's Draft One AI-Generated Police Reports

The moment Axon Enterprise announced a new product, Draft One, that would allow law enforcement officers to use artificial intelligence to automatically generate incident report narratives based on body-worn camera audio, everyone in the police accountability community immediately started asking the same questions. What do AI-generated police reports look...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | July 10, 2025

It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started)

Today we celebrate 35 years of EFF bearing the torch for digital rights against the darkness of the world. While threats from state and commercial forces grew alongside the internet, so too did EFF’s expertise.

Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings, Matthew Guariglia | July 9, 2025

Data Brokers are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE

For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they...

Press Release | July 9, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India

SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India will receive the 2025 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports privacy, freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. The EFF Awards recognize specific...

Event | July 24, 2025

Phoenix: Privacy PIE with EFF's Andrew Crocker

Tech Education Collaborative , a local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, (not EFF) will host this event:Privacy PIE with EFF's Andrew CrockerFrom the Organizers:We're excited to welcome Andrew Crocker, Surveillance Litigation Director for the EFF, as this month's EFA Edition of Privacy PIE! As Surveillance Litigation...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia, Hannah Zhao | July 8, 2025

EFF to US Court of Appeals: Protect Taxpayer Privacy

EFF has filed an amicus brief in Trabajadores v. Bessent, a case concerning the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sharing protected personal tax information with the Department of Homeland Security for the purposes of immigration enforcement. Our expertise in privacy and data sharing makes us the ideal organization to step in...

Event | August 4, 2025

EFF at The Diana Initiative

For the first time, EFF is excited to be at The Diana Initiative! Be sure to stop by our info table at the conference to learn more about our latest work defending digital freedom for all. We're going to be handing out stickers and spreading the word about privacy...

Event | November 7, 2025

SeaGL

EFF is excited to support SeaGL (the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference)! Taking place at the University of Washington, SeaGL is your one-stop-shop to learn about free and open source software and hardware. SeaGL is free to attend, with no registration required. Just show up and enjoy the community!More about...

Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | July 6, 2025

How to Build on Washington’s “My Health, My Data” Act

The State of Washington enacted one of the strongest consumer data privacy laws in recent years: the “My Health, My Data” Act. While the law only applies to one category of personal data—our health information—its structure could be used to protect all manner of data.

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | July 2, 2025

🤫 Meta's Secret Spying Scheme | EFFector 37.7

Keeping up on the latest digital rights news has never been easier. With a new look, EFF's EFFector newsletter covers the latest details on our work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online.EFFector 37.7 covers some of the very sneaky tactics that Meta has been using...

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | July 2, 2025

Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key...

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EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword

No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces

EFF Investigation: AI Product for Police Reports is Designed to Hinder Audits

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

EFF's Guide to Getting Records About Axon's Draft One AI-Generated Police Reports

It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started)

Data Brokers are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE

Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and Software Freedom Law Center, India

Phoenix: Privacy PIE with EFF's Andrew Crocker

EFF to US Court of Appeals: Protect Taxpayer Privacy

EFF at The Diana Initiative

SeaGL

How to Build on Washington’s “My Health, My Data” Act

🤫 Meta's Secret Spying Scheme | EFFector 37.7

Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

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