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Electronic Frontier Foundation

A license plate reader attached to a signal pole | Rich Sugg/TNS/Newscom

Police Abuse

Los Angeles Sheriff Misused Confidential Database Thousands of Times To Run Concealed Carry Background Checks

Public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show how sensitive police databases are used and abused.

C.J. Ciaramella | 1.29.2025 2:41 PM

Donald Trump at the "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the Capitol riot | Abaca Press/Gripas Yuri/Abaca/Sipa USA/Newscom

First Amendment

The New York Times Again Worries That Free Speech Endangers Democracy

The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.

Jacob Sullum | 3.17.2024 6:15 PM

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Privacy

Warrantless Border Searches Draw Call for Supreme Court Action

The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.26.2021 8:30 AM

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Internet

How To Fix the Internet

Each episode explores how to fix laws that entrench privacy-violating practices.

Scott Shackford | 2.5.2021 6:30 AM

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California

California Will Keep Your DNA on File Even if You Haven't Been Convicted of a Crime

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Equal Justice Society, and others are challenging the practice in court.

Zuri Davis | 12.14.2018 12:35 PM

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Reasontv

Jinx the Anarchist Sex Worker Goes to Washington

Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.

Todd Krainin | 7.27.2018 1:35 PM

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California Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Bad Yelp Reviews

The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp cannot be forced to remove negative reviews of a business.

Zuri Davis | 7.3.2018 10:50 AM

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Copyright

Do You Have a Right To Repair Your Phone? The Fight Between Big Tech and Consumers

Meet Eric Lundgren, who got 15 months in prison for selling pirated Microsoft software that the tech giant gives away for free.

Alexis Garcia and Paul Detrick | 6.18.2018 11:25 AM

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John Perry Barlow

The Insanely Eventful Life of Grateful Dead Lyricist John Perry Barlow

A posthumous memoir from a mutant genius

Mike Godwin | 6.16.2018 6:00 AM

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Obituaries

John Perry Barlow, The Thomas Jefferson of Cyberspace, R.I.P.

Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Grateful Dead lyricist, helped create the notion of "cyberspace" as realm of unprecedented liberty.

Brian Doherty | 2.7.2018 7:15 PM

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Politics

Congress Trudges Ahead on Perhaps Honoring the Fourth Amendment

The continuing fight for e-mail privacy and against terrible aspects of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Brian Doherty | 2.13.2015 8:55 PM

Public schools

ACLU and EFF Call Out Tennessee School District for Violating Students' Constitutional Rights

Lucian McMahon | 11.3.2014 4:05 PM

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Policy

Law Enforcement Keeps Defending ComputerCOP Spyware, Will Distribute Until Someone Gets Hurt

Zenon Evans | 10.7.2014 11:35 AM

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Policy

Sheriff Says 'ComputerCOP' Spyware Isn't Spyware. If You Disagree You're a 'Liberal' Who Supports Murderers and Pedophiles

Zenon Evans | 10.3.2014 1:20 PM

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Politics

Repo Businesses Building Huge Surveillance Network

Zenon Evans | 3.6.2014 2:00 PM

Policy

US Sues Sprint For Overbilling For Surveillance Services

Alyssa Hertig | 3.5.2014 3:57 PM

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Surveillance

DOJ to Release Details on Time FISA Court Caught NSA Breaking the Law

Transparency, eventually, finally. After being sued, of course.

Scott Shackford | 8.9.2013 5:10 PM

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Policy

You, Too, May Be Suing the National Security Agency

Coalition of groups fights mass data collection as a threat to freedom of association

Scott Shackford | 7.17.2013 11:53 AM

NSA

Overruling the Obama Administration a Federal Judge Allows Suit Against NSA Spying to Go Forward

Ronald Bailey | 7.9.2013 12:37 PM

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