Category: Business

Dublin, 7 October 2025 — Paris-based investment firm Ardian has agreed to acquire Energia Group, one of Ireland’s largest energy providers, from infrastructure investor I Squared Capital, in a transaction valued at more than €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion). The deal marks Ardian’s first investment in Ireland and underscores the growing importance of energy infrastructure in […]

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly tweaked and pushed by one Council presidency after another. […]

Panama City, 7 October 2025 — The TOC Americas 2025 conference and exhibition, one of the region’s most influential gatherings for the port, shipping, and cargo supply chain sectors, will take place from 21–23 October at the Panama Convention Centre. Industry Gathering The event is set to attract more than 1,500 professionals, including port authorities, […]

Federal employees play a key role in safeguarding the civil liberties of millions of Americans. Our rights to privacy and free expression can only survive when we stand together to push back against overreach and ensure that technology serves all people—not just the powerful.  That’s why EFF jumped to action earlier this year, when the […]

Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. We shouldn’t need to prove we’ve suffered additional damage, such as physical injury […]

Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adopt it: detection of “human distress” via audio. As part of their suite of technologies, Flock has […]

A San Francisco supervisor has proposed that police and other city agencies should have no financial consequences for breaking a landmark surveillance oversight law. In 2019, organizations from across the city worked together to help pass that law, which required law enforcement to get the approval of democratically elected officials before they bought and used […]

At EFF, we believe that tech rights are worker’s rights. Since the pandemic, workers of all kinds have been subjected to increasingly invasive forms of bossware. These are the “algorithmic management” tools that surveil workers on and off the job, often running on devices that (nominally) belong to workers, hijacking our phones and laptops. On […]

In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth trackers that make it easy for stalkers and the company itself to track the location of Tile devices. Tile trackers are small Bluetooth trackers, similar to Apple’s Airtags, but they work on their own […]