Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stolen vehicles, but this case showed how ALPRS […]
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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. The Numbers Aren’t Working Out We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. […]
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BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 22, 2025 This is the fourth installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. One of the goals of our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign was to put names, stories, and numbers to the experiences we’d been hearing about: […]
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BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 26, 2025 This is the sixth installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When we started our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we heard from activists, advocacy organizations, researchers, and even healthcare providers who had all experienced having […]
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We need your help to make a common-sense bill into California law. Despite the fact that California has one of the nation’s most comprehensive data privacy laws, it’s not always easy for people to exercise those privacy rights. A.B. 566 intends to make it easy by directing browsers to give all their users the option […]
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