Publications

In 2023, Google and its cybersecurity partners teamed up with German law enforcement agencies after discovering BadBox, a botnet comprised of 74,000 Android devices infected with malware. After deploying a range of measures to suppress BadBox, a mu...

Britain’s top air force officer has angrily avoided questions about Gaza, while his colleague pushed a journalist out of the way. Air chief marshal Sir Rich Knighton hurried to a taxi outside Savoy Place in central London on Thursday, while being gr...

Español Simply using extra electricity to power some Christmas lights or a big fish tank shouldn’t bring the police to your door. In fact, in California, the law explicitly protects the privacy of power customers, prohibiting public utilities from...

Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy over their profit. But dating apps are taking shortcut...

The federal government is trying to use Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. So EFF and our friends at EPIC and the Protect Democracy Project have filed an amicus brief asking a judge to block this dangerous violation of federal data priv...

Not long after winning the Oscar for Best Picture in 2010, the makers of the war action thriller ‘The Hurt Locker’ set their eyes on their next prize. With a then-novel legal scheme, they planned to sue tens of thousands of Americans, who shared pira...

Generic warnings about malware, identity theft, and other types of fraud have become embedded in the majority of anti-piracy campaigns over the last few years. Yet, no matter how stylishly produced or immaculately directed at the target audience, m...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s the 114th day that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 34th day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on fo...

When governments prohibit, outlaw, or otherwise restrict certain activities or access to products, some believe that can make the forbidden even more interesting. Coincidentally, perhaps, forbidden is a theme the adult industry has always found quite...

Español Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing n...