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Congress Contemplates Making it Illegal to Protect Consumer Privacy Online

Cable and telephone companies are pushing Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to protect online consumer privacy.

When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself. What you browse, what you purchase, who you communicate with—all reveal something personal about you. Long...

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Congress Must Protect Americans’ Location Privacy

Your smartphone, navigation system, fitness device, and more know where you are most of the time. Law enforcement should need a warrant to access the information these technologies track.
Lawmakers have a chance to create warrant requirements for the sensitive location information collected by your devices.
Sen. Ron...

Forecasting Tech Policy in the Face of Uncertainty

Join Lee Tien, EFF's Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights, for a panel discussion on the key tech policy issues we're expecting to see in the coming years.
"Uncertainty is poised to be the buzzword of 2017 as the Trump Administration has deviated from the conventional...

Event This Friday: EFF Talks Constitutional Law at the Internet Archive

This Friday, EFF lawyers and other experts from the field will lead a conversation about constitutional law at the Internet Archive. The event is open to the public, totally free, and will stream live on Facebook for anybody who can't make it in person.
Come learn about censorship, surveillance,...

Not Okay: Professor Smeared After Advocating for Election Integrity

Imagine if someone, after reading something you wrote online that they didn’t agree with, decided to forge racist and anti-Semitic emails under your name. This appears to be what happened to J. Alex Halderman, a computer security researcher and professor of computer science at the University of Michigan. Halderman is...

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