Category: Technology

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” […]

This month, we celebrate 36 years of EFF and a mission that is bigger than any one of us. Thanks to EFF, communities around the world are demanding that technology protects their freedom, advances justice, and opens doors to opportunity. That’s not a small thing—it’s a life’s work worth continuing. If you are committed to […]

Spain will play Argentina in the Fifa World Cup final on Sunday. The highly anticipated match takes place in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, with the teams vying for the most coveted prize in football. Attacking flair and physicality will no doubt play a role. But we could also see an underappreciated element of football come […]

When Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I’d fight tech-authoritarianism from EFF’s San Francisco offices and then, at night, I’d fight tech-authoritarianism in an uncanny simulation of San Francisco from my home gaming console.   […]

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing proton particles together at nearly the speed of light, Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations and entered a long shutdown. While no particle collisions are taking place at the LHC, thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians […]

Thousands of front gardens have been paved over. 1000 Words/Shutterstock Warm sticky nights are becoming more and more common in the UK. Climate change is raising temperatures, but one factor that adds to that is often ignored. Walk down a city street and you see what would have been front gardens a decade or so […]

Seven UK start-ups have joined the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre UK (ESA BIC UK), to develop technologies that address industrial challenges and deliver practical benefits in space and on Earth. Together, they aim to boost productivity, efficiency and decision-making across sectors from construction to environmental monitoring, helping strengthen the UK economy and the […]

Having a baby is no joke for tamarins. Martin Leber/Shutterstock Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates. And it’s true that from an evolutionary perspective, we face an obstetrical dilemma. As we evolved to walk on two feet, our pelvis changed shape and size and our birth canal […]

EFF and ARTICLE 19 have submitted joint comments to the European Commission on draft guidelines for the Digital Services Act’s trusted flagger mechanism. Having long advocated for a DSA that protects freedom of expression while preserving intermediary liability protections and the prohibition on general monitoring, we welcome the Commission’s effort to provide practical guidance on […]

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces. EFF […]