{ "count": 50, "items": [ { "id": 19200, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/too-little-too-late-flock-admits-their-technology-needs-reforms", "title": "Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms", "summary": "Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology, has rolled out a handful of new reforms intended to appease the justified nationwide anger that has seen scores of towns cancel or suspend their contracts with the company for automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The reforms are a combination of long overdue changes along with some cosmetic fixes that fail to address the fundamental dangers of this technology. We should not be letting companies decide how much privacy we des", "authors": "Matthew Guariglia", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-08-13T20:52:35.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19200" }, { "id": 18445, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/who-or-what-generates-images-eff", "title": "Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF?", "summary": "We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on donation and shop items, have been created with AI image generators. We’d like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policy regarding image creation. EFF images are all made by human beings, not by automated image generators, with very rare exceptions. This is an internal decision made by our small design team, for the following reasons: Our designers bring knowledge and e", "authors": "Hugh D'Andrade", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-11T20:24:25.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18445" }, { "id": 18041, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/dismiss-churchs-trademark-lawsuit-against-mormon-stories-podcast-eff-urges-court", "title": "Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court", "summary": "Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian government could stop you from using the word “Canada” in the title of a book about the country and its people. That wouldn’t just be absurd; it would be an unacceptable obstacle to criticism of and commentary about those institutions. Yet the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the “LDS Church”) has a track record of claiming exactly that kind of authority over the word “Mormon", "authors": "Cara Gagliano", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-11T00:00:30.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18041" }, { "id": 18042, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/meta-must-stop-silencing-reproductive-health-information", "title": "Meta Must Stop Silencing Reproductive Health Information", "summary": "Access to accurate information about reproductive and maternal health can be critical. But on Meta's platforms, simply talking about prescription medication, abortion care, or one's own medical experiences can be enough to trigger content removals and account restrictions. That's why EFF recently submitted a public comment to the Meta Oversight Board in its consideration of a case involving an Instagram post about prescription drugs during pregnancy and childbirth. The case touches upon a topic", "authors": "Jennifer Pinsof", "category": "org", "topics": "healthcare,children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-10T17:18:21.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18042" }, { "id": 16308, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction", "title": "Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction", "summary": "The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA , the SCREEN Act , Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act . While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time to look at these bills separately, it’s still impossible to ignore the message Congress is sending to the world: Age-gate the internet and block young people from speaking and accessing lawful speech online. Or else. Take action Tell Congress: don't age-gate the internet Each o", "authors": "India McKinney", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-08-05T00:15:11.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16308" }, { "id": 16309, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/appeals-court-agrees-eff-building-web-browser-doesnt-violate-cfaa", "title": "Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA", "summary": "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given to such interpretation. Amazon had sued Perplexity AI to try to shut down its Comet browser, claiming the browser’s optional agentic AI “Assistant” that can browse websites like Amazon for comparison shopping purposes, violated the CFAA because Amazon did not “authorize” Perplexity to access Amazon users’ accounts. Rejecting that theory, the N", "authors": "Andrew Crocker", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-08-04T22:32:39.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16309" }, { "id": 16310, "url": "https://www.eff.org/press/releases/mobile-ad-software-encourages-location-data-sharing-eff-report-finds", "title": "Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds", "summary": "Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Users’ Privacy SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found . EFF began investigating the location-sharing practices of various advertising SDKs to better understand the pipeline from mobile apps to locatio", "authors": "Josh Richman", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-08-04T19:30:41.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16310" }, { "id": 16311, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/developers-beware-ad-libraries-betray-your-users-location-privacy", "title": "Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy", "summary": "Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps. But those same SDKs can automatically feed users’ location data into ad systems that location data brokers use to track people. Many developers may not even be aware of this privacy violation, let alone the users who are directly affected. When developers let advertising SDKs collect location data, they’re putting users at risk of more than just creepy", "authors": "Lena Cohen", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-08-04T19:30:21.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16311" }, { "id": 16312, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/vv26", "title": "Technology's Power in the Hands of the People", "summary": "In the scorching heat of every Las Vegas summer, EFF joins thousands of hackers, makers, policy analysts, and activists for the world's largest computer security gathering. If you're there during this summer security week, be sure to say hello to us at BSides Las Vegas , Black Hat Briefings , and DEF CON 34 . While tech companies align with governments to target the people, our community is harnessing technology to fight back. Will you lend your support this year? JOIN EFF EFF’s relentless work", "authors": "Aaron Jue", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-04T14:12:50.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16312" }, { "id": 15911, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-should-reject-kosas-privacy-risks", "title": "The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks", "summary": "The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act , the CHATBOT Act , and the Youth AI Privacy Act, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would push companies to collect more information about their users while creating new incentives to restrict lawful speech. Take action Tell Congress: KOSA endangers the privacy of all KOSA Pushes Platforms Toward Age Verification The Sen", "authors": "Joe Mullin", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-03T23:47:38.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15911" }, { "id": 15912, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-hochul-reject-stealth", "title": "EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act", "summary": "EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act . The letter states: While framed as a measure to protect local journalism, this legislation harms free expression and establishes a dangerous precedent by effectively deanonymizing and criminalizing automated access to the open web. By requiring all web crawlers to disclose their identity and explicit purpose, and by", "authors": "Rindala Alajaji", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-03T23:25:40.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15912" }, { "id": 15913, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-comments-calling-ftc-drop-its-ai-policy-proposal", "title": "EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal", "summary": "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy statement “concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems. ” We urge the FTC to withdraw this misguided proposal and instead focus on its core strengths and mission to protect consumers. The new proposed policy builds on, and directly references, the Trump administration’s “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government” executive order—a nightmare for civil liberties that seeks to strong-arm AI companie", "authors": "Tori Noble", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-03T22:17:56.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15913" }, { "id": 15914, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox", "title": "The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox", "summary": "The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the Youth AI Privacy Act , a bill that would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement so-called “safe design features,” which would — like three other bills under consideration this week—require more data collection and make it harder for people to access lawful speech online. While the bill is narrower than some other proposed chatbot bills, it still has massive data security implications because it protects informa", "authors": "Maddie Daly", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-03T21:08:45.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15914" }, { "id": 15334, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free", "title": "Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy", "summary": "California lawmakers have amended A.B. 1709 , but the core problem remains: the bill is still a ban on social media access for youth under 16 , and it still threatens the privacy and First Amendment rights of all Californians. Proponents of the bill may argue that the recent amendments represent a compromise , but a close look at the text shows no major changes. As the bill moves forward in the Senate, we must continue to urge lawmakers to vote NO. Take Action: Tell Your Senator to OPPOSE A.B. 1", "authors": "Rindala Alajaji", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-31T19:47:34.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15334" }, { "id": 15335, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites", "title": "The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites", "summary": "The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737 , the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they access lawful speech. Unlike many state-age verification laws—which have been harmful in their own right—the SCREEN Act has no requirement that a signif", "authors": "India McKinney", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-31T19:41:55.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15335" }, { "id": 15336, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family", "title": "The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family", "summary": "Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and schools are struggling with tough questions about when AI should, and should not, be used. It makes sense for Congress to hold hearings and examine how AI should be used by minors. But the recently introduced CHATBOT Act answers those questions with a one-size-fits-all mandate governing how teenagers access AI through federally prescribed parental monitoring systems", "authors": "Joe Mullin", "category": "org", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-31T19:06:43.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15336" }, { "id": 15337, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/eff-guide-recording-law-enforcement", "title": "EFF Guide to Recording Law Enforcement", "summary": "This post is available as a printable one page handout in English and Spanish . Recordings of law enforcement, whether by bystanders or by those directly encountering officers, can be powerful tools of government accountability and can support movements for social change. But recording officers can come with risks. Below are important legal and practical considerations related to recording the police and other law enforcement officers. Can I legally record the police or immigration officers? Yes", "authors": "Sophia Cope", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-31T14:11:24.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15337" }, { "id": 14600, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fitness-tracker-privacy-fails-effector-3814", "title": "🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14", "summary": "Watches, bands, and rings—if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it. And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device. But what are the companies that make fitness trackers doing to protect our sensitive data from prying eyes? A lot less than they could be, it turns out. We're explaining what companies can do to protect your health data, and more, with our EFFector newsletter . JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 year", "authors": "Christian Romero", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare", "published_at": "2026-07-29T16:52:58.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14600" }, { "id": 14176, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/san-francisco-dont-fall-industry-defense-surveillance-pricing", "title": "San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing", "summary": "The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy. The all-too-common business model is to systematically harvest, collate, and store as much of our personal data as possible, and then monetize it through use and sale. When it comes to surveillance pricing, that looks like corporations offering the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on harvested persona", "authors": "Matthew Guariglia", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-28T21:55:43.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14176" }, { "id": 14177, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons", "title": "Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?", "summary": "Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the attention has focused on reports that the system photographs patrons as they enter venues and questions about whether those images are used for facial recognition. A broader privacy concern also deserves scrutiny. For years, PatronScan has marketed itself not just as an ID-verification tool, but as a system that allows", "authors": "Joe Mullin", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-28T16:19:13.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14177" }, { "id": 13087, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/hundreds-drone-first-responder-programs-could-soon-be-launched-across-country", "title": "Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country", "summary": "Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality, expanding aerial surveillance and data collection even in areas patrol officers typically can't reach. As of February 2026, over 1,000 public safety agencies —including police, fire, and other emergency management agencies—had received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waivers needed to automate drone operation", "authors": "Beryl Lipton", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-23T22:00:00.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13087" }, { "id": 12708, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required", "title": "The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required", "summary": "Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo , a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief , alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of wheth", "authors": "Sophia Cope", "category": "org", "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-07-22T22:30:31.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12708" }, { "id": 12012, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/what-you-need-know-about-californias-drop-tool", "title": "Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool", "summary": "Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. Here are som", "authors": "Hayley Tsukayama", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-20T21:55:28.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12012" }, { "id": 12370, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion", "title": "An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion", "summary": "A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034. DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles—threatening the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions. The towers a", "authors": "Karen Gullo", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-20T19:25:44.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12370" }, { "id": 12013, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/stealth-crawlers-are-not-threat-open-web-bills-targeting-them-would-be", "title": "“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.", "summary": "There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything but. “Stealth crawlers” are simply automated tools to access and collect public web data—without disclosing the user’s identity. Private crawlers like these facilitate all kinds of important work that benefits the public, including investigative reporting, academic research, cybersecurity protection, and more. Anonymous craw", "authors": "Tori Noble", "category": "org", "topics": "finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-07-20T18:46:50.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12013" }, { "id": 11399, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices", "title": "Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices", "summary": "Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers — has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” that would be deployed through their acoustic gunshot detection devices (formerly known as Flock Raven, now called Audio Detection)", "authors": "Matthew Guariglia", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-17T17:05:57.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11399" }, { "id": 11400, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/how-watch-dogs-video-game-series-mirrored-and-predicted-real-world-digital-rights", "title": "How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues", "summary": "When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I'd fight tech-authoritarianism from EFF's San Francisco offices and then, at night, I'd fight tech-authoritarianism in an uncanny simulation of San Francisco from my home gaming console. Watch Dogs 2 is an open-world video game that follows a hacktivist collective called Dedsec as they take on surveillance tech and discriminatory AI systems that a", "authors": "Dave Maass", "category": "org", "topics": "bias-fairness,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-17T15:01:22.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11400" }, { "id": 10627, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law", "title": "California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law", "summary": "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 security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856 , authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces. EFF still believes the underlying law that A.B. 1856 amends, A.B. 1043 , is unconstitutional. Signed into law in 2025 (and effective Ja", "authors": "Rindala Alajaji", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-15T20:50:48.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10627" }, { "id": 10628, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/most-smart-watches-rings-and-bands-lack-basic-transparency-reports-and-key-privacy", "title": "Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features", "summary": "Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide useful health metrics to take to our doctors. But few of these tools provide the sorts of privacy and security promises we demand from all technology, let alone tech that captures personal health data. It’s time they step up and start providing transparency reports and stronger encryption options. ", "authors": "Thorin Klosowski", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-15T19:56:18.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10628" }, { "id": 10629, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-let-congress-age-gate-internet-effector-3813", "title": "🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13", "summary": "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 we can see and say online. Supporters claim the KIDS Act is needed to protect minors online. But if lawmakers really want to make the internet safer, why are they encouraging more surveillance instead of protecting our privacy? We dive into this question with our EFFector newsletter . JOIN OUR NEWSLE", "authors": "Christian Romero", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-15T17:02:02.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10629" }, { "id": 10361, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-repeat-nys-3d-printing-blunder", "title": "Don’t Repeat NY’s 3D Printing Blunder", "summary": "This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is there a ticking clock to protect every artist, researcher, engineer, and hobbyist in the state, but there is a real risk of other states thoughtlessly following suit—prior to the New York rules even taking effect. We, along with many other experts , already warned about this bill buried in the state’s c", "authors": "Rory Mir", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-14T19:52:39.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10361" }, { "id": 1652, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/building-our-future-together", "title": "Building Our Future Together", "summary": "In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have. We are on the edge. What each one of us steps up to do – with our expertise, energy, and resources – will determine whether our future is one of openness, security, and fundamental rights, or one controlled through fear, surveillance, and centralized power. I am proud to take the torch and help lead our EFF community forward at this pivota", "authors": "Nicole Ozer", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-10T15:00:03.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1652" }, { "id": 1655, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/part-2-automated-moderation-here-stay-accountability-must-keep-pace", "title": "Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay—Accountability Must Keep Pace", "summary": "This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here . When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleted nonviolent Arabic-language content 77 percent of the time, while failing to detect hate speech under the company’s own policies in many instances. Meta’s own transparency report released later that", "authors": "Jillian C. York", "category": "org", "topics": "transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-10T13:19:46.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1655" }, { "id": 1658, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/we-want-texans-know-their-rights-qa-mayday-health-impact-surveillance-abortion", "title": "\"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights\": Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care", "summary": "Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stolen vehicles, but this case showed how ALPRS can be weaponized to investigate people’s private healthcare decisions. And these aren’t the only tools in the surveillance arsenal: others include locatio", "authors": "Kenyatta Thomas", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare,military-security,finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-07-09T21:12:57.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1658" }, { "id": 1660, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/house-passed-kids-act-senate-should-reject-it", "title": "The House Passed The KIDS Act—The Senate Should Reject It", "summary": "Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act , a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act ( KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online services to impose different age-gating schemes, using different standards. EFF opposed this bill , along with many of our members and ", "authors": "India McKinney", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-09T20:58:33.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1660" }, { "id": 1662, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/european-commission-chooses-keep-eu-users-locked-behind-big-techs-gates", "title": "European Commission Chooses to Keep EU Users Locked Up Behind Big Tech’s Gates", "summary": "Users are always seeking more control over their social networking experience to make it better, whether to improve privacy or enhance flexibility. Interoperability between social networking platforms like Facebook and TikTok has so many benefits that solve those issues. Say you’re on multiple platforms because you have friends you follow on different networks, but you’ve decided to choose one platform with better privacy practices. With interoperability, you could switch and still interact with", "authors": "Karen Gullo", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-09T18:30:12.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1662" }, { "id": 1664, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/googles-new-remote-attestation-scheme-every-bit-terrible-its-old-remote", "title": "Google's New Remote Attestation Scheme is As Bad As Its Old One", "summary": "Google owes its existence to the open web, but today, its technological “innovations” have much to do with locking users into a “walled garden.” The latest of these is “ reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification ,” an experimental initiative that will let companies block users if they are running independent, \"de-googled\" versions of Android. These “indie Android” versions are favored by people who want to protect their privacy and their attention by blocking trackers and ads. Worse, this is just the latest", "authors": "Cory Doctorow", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-09T09:15:49.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1664" }, { "id": 1666, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/part-1-automated-moderation-here-stay", "title": "Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay", "summary": "This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part sets out recommendations for companies and policymakers. Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes many platforms were rapidly adopting should be highly transparent, easily appealable, and temporary. We warned that \"protocols adopted in times of crisis often persist when the crisis is over.\" That warning proved prescient. The use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to id", "authors": "Jillian C. York", "category": "org", "topics": "jobs-economy,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-07T16:21:36.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1666" }, { "id": 1668, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/help-eff-cut-ai-hype", "title": "Help EFF Cut the AI Hype", "summary": "In the global race to build and dominate the AI industry, it can sure seem like the interests of ordinary people sit last on the agenda. It's just the opposite for EFF. While companies furiously jam AI tools into their veins and your eyeballs, EFF’s technologists, activists, and attorneys have been meticulously cutting through the hype to ensure AI can serve your privacy and free expression. Technology has leaned into a new era, and this summer you can help EFF fight for the people. JOIN EFF Ove", "authors": "Aaron Jue", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-07T16:17:38.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1668" }, { "id": 1670, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-and-allies-xs-ftc-petition-waive-privacy-violation-order-should-be-rejected", "title": "EFF and Allies: X’s FTC Petition to Waive Privacy Violation Order Should be Rejected", "summary": "X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issued in 2022 requiring the company to report regularly to the FTC for its violations of user data. The order or “consent decree” is a result of misleading the platforms’ 140 million users by using private information given to secure accounts, like phone numbers and email addresses, for targeted adverti", "authors": "Bill Budington", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-07-02T15:04:54.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1670" }, { "id": 1672, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-gov-pritzker-veto-illinois-hb-5511", "title": "EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois’ HB 5511", "summary": "The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511 , which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece of legislation will harm young people who rely on the internet to access essential information and find community. That’s why we’re urging the Illinois governor to veto the measure. Under this new regime, digital platforms are forced to collect and s", "authors": "Hayley Tsukayama", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-06-29T18:23:38.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1672" }, { "id": 1674, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-supreme-court-says-constitution-protects-peoples-location-data", "title": "Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data", "summary": "You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States . The case involved geofence warrants, a form of dragnet surveillance police have used to vacuum up location data from electronic devices of people who happen to be in the vicinity of a crime. EFF had joined the American Civil Liberties ", "authors": "Andrew Crocker", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-06-29T17:25:22.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1674" }, { "id": 1676, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/grindr-put-queer-safety-and-privacy-over-profits", "title": "EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits", "summary": "This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers or training AI on private information without users’ opt-in consent. Grindr is a dating app for the LGBTQ+ community; and for queer people, privacy violations can have life-altering consequences. Information that reveals someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status can be used by empl", "authors": "Lena Cohen", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-06-26T16:18:00.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1676" }, { "id": 1678, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/lawmakers-must-act-now-prevent-armed-police-drones", "title": "Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones", "summary": "This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots , we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation around when and how domestic law enforcement in the United States can deploy force using drones, the companies that markets technology to law enforcement have been moving. It’s past time concerned people take notice. Cities should not procure weaponized ", "authors": "Matthew Guariglia", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,military-security,agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-06-26T15:22:40.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1678" }, { "id": 1680, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme", "title": "We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme", "summary": "Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software , the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state. Take a", "authors": "Rory Mir", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-06-26T15:05:16.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1680" }, { "id": 1682, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-tedic-and-cejil-challenge-secrecy-use-face-recognition-paraguay", "title": "EFF, TEDIC and CEJIL Challenge Secrecy in the Use of Face Recognition in Paraguay", "summary": "Seeking transparency and accountability in Paraguay’s use of facial recognition, EFF, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the state for arbitrarily denying access to information about its implementation and use of the technology as a tool for mass surveillance that erodes people’s privacy rights. The case involve", "authors": "Karen Gullo", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,children-education,transparency", "published_at": "2026-06-25T21:15:53.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1682" }, { "id": 1684, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/four-years-after-dobbs-anti-abortion-lawmakers-keep-coming-online-speech", "title": "Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for Online Speech", "summary": "This week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade ’s constitutional protections for people seeking abortion care. Anniversaries are a moment to take stock, and over the last four years, EFF has seen firsthand how digital rights and reproductive rights have become increasingly intertwined. One major way this has happened: the fight over abortion has also become a fight over online speech and government censorship as a steady stream of proposed la", "authors": "Lisa Femia", "category": "org", "topics": "healthcare", "published_at": "2026-06-25T20:49:25.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1684" }, { "id": 1686, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/fccs-spam-call-proposal-just-data-collection-scheme", "title": "The FCC’s Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme", "summary": "The Federal Communications Commission wants to require telecommunications providers to collect vast amounts of personal information from every person who wants a phone number in the name of combatting scam and spam calls. This plan will fail to combat the deluge of unwanted calls people in the United States receive every day while giving untrustworthy companies a gold mine of information that would harm everyday consumer’s privacy, access to communications, and ability to speak freely. The requi", "authors": "Chao Liu", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-06-25T17:28:13.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1686" }, { "id": 1688, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants", "title": "Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?", "summary": "When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified for real-time surveillance. These are called “hotlists,” and EFF has learned that one used by agencies across the country targets immigrants on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Agencies using Flock Safety ALPR systems commonly allow the plates their cameras collect to be compared", "authors": "Dave Maass", "category": "org", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-06-25T16:00:37.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1688" }, { "id": 1689, "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online", "title": "The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online", "summary": "Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act , a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act , or KOSA, combined with a collection of other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Instead of debating any of these proposals on their merits, lawmakers are attempting to move them all at once under an ultra-expedited p", "authors": "Joe Mullin", "category": "org", "topics": "regulation,children-education", "published_at": "2026-06-25T06:40:07.000Z", "source": "EFF Deeplinks", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1689" } ], "attribution": "via ethics.ai" }