When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance

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 disclosing precise “smart” meter data in most cases.  Despite this, Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies […]

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EFF to Supreme Court: Strike Down Texas’ Unconstitutional Age Verification Law

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and TechFreedom urged the Supreme Court today to strike down HB 1181, a Texas law that unconstitutionally restricts adults’ access to sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age.  Under HB 1181, signed into law last year, any website that Texas decides is […]

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