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The light from a surveillance camera shines on three Black faces, which look directly at the camera.
Deeplinks Blog by Electronic Frontier Foundation | March 2, 2023

Coded Resistance, the Comic!

In collaboration with The Nib and illustrator Chelsea Saunders, we've adapted "Coded Resistance" into comic form. Explore the stories of slave revolts, the coded songs of Harriet Tubman, civil rights era strategies for circumventing "Ma Bell," and the use of modern day technology to document police abuse.
Deeplinks Blog by Mukund Rathi | February 28, 2023

Win for Government Transparency and Immigrant Privacy Rights at Second Circuit

Intern Reema Moussa contributed to this blog post.As government agencies increasingly use digital tools to track citizens and immigrants, we need to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to make that surveillance transparent. But while the government opens its databases to public scrutiny, it must also protect individual privacy.Late...

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | February 21, 2023

Podcast Episode: The Right to Imagine Your Own Future

Too often we let the rich and powerful dictate what technology’s future will be, from Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse to Elon Musk’s neural implants. But what if we all were empowered to use our voices and perspectives to imagine a better world in which we all can thrive while creating and...
3 squares hover over a map, seemingly looking for crime hot spots
Deeplinks Blog by Carlos Wertheman, Veridiana Alimonti, Dave Maass | February 16, 2023

How We Fought For and Won Access to Records About Predictive Policing in General Escobedo, Mexico

What started with a simple public records request became a journey into the absurd depths of Mexican bureaucracy. But we emerged victorious, and learned a lot about how a city experimented with a dangerous surveillance tool. Filing public records requests for government information is a vital tool that EFF uses...

Locational Privacy
Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | February 13, 2023

EFF Backs California Bill to Protect People Seeking Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care from Dragnet Digital Surveillance

EFF proudly joins ACLU California Action and If/When/How to co-sponsor new California legislation to protect people seeking abortion and gender-affirming care from dragnet-style digital surveillance. A coalition of more than 25 reproductive justice, civil liberties, and privacy groups are supporting the bill at introduction. Support A.B. 793Stop All Digital...

Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | February 13, 2023

Why is New York City Removing Free Broadband In Favor of Charter?

In January 2020, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced New York City’s Internet Master Plan, setting a path to deliver broadband for low-income New Yorkers by investing in public fiber infrastructure. The plan was a clear response to the gap created from systemic digital redlining (an industry...
digital icons interconnected
Deeplinks Blog by Ross Schulman | February 7, 2023

Participation in the Fediverse

Parts of the fediverse have been in something of an uproar recently over an experimental search service that was under development called (appropriately enough) Searchtodon. The project aimed to enable people to search their own home timeline and worked by being authorized by a user to access that user’s timeline...

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