Category: Business

Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enforcement to follow you.  “The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying LPR cameras as well,” Rahul Sidhu, Vice President of Aviation at Flock Safety, recently told a group of potential law enforcement […]

BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025 This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here.  During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of stories from people and organizations that have […]

The Panama Canal Authority has officially launched a tender process for the construction of a $6 billion liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pipeline linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The proposed infrastructure aims to support a daily capacity of 2 million barrels, reflecting a strategic response to rising U.S. propane and butane exports to Asian markets. […]

BY JILLIAN C. YORK | September 19, 2025 This is the third installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here.  Imagine sharing information about reproductive health care on social media and receiving a message that your content has been removed for violating a policy […]

Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, led Ireland’s delegation at the G20 Tourism Ministers’ meeting held on 12 September at Kruger National Park, South Africa. Ireland participated as a guest country at the invitation of the South African Presidency. The meeting concluded with a ministerial declaration reaffirming the importance of multilateral cooperation and […]

It’s been a year full of challenges, but also important victories for digital freedoms. From EFF’s new lawsuit against OPM and DOGE, to launching Rayhunter (our new tool to detect cellular spying), to exposing the censorship of abortion-related content on social media, we’ve been busy! But we’re not the only ones leading the charge.  On September 10 in […]

The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law, which has put every driver in the city at risk […]

This posted was drafted by EFF legal intern Alexandra Halbeck The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone’s contents. In United States v. Hunt, the court made […]

A new UN health agency report also shows that in Europe in 2023, six in 10 medics trained outside the region, while the number is even higher for nurses. In light of these findings – and the fact that many western and northern European countries are becoming “heavily dependent” on these foreign workers – the WHO is […]

The Australian government has announced an $8 billion investment to establish a dedicated nuclear submarine shipyard, marking a significant step in its long-term defense strategy under the AUKUS security partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom. The facility, to be built in South Australia, will support the construction and maintenance of nuclear-powered submarines […]