Responding to ShotSpotter, Police Shoot at Child Lighting Fireworks

This post was written by Rachel Hochhauser, an EFF legal intern We’ve written multiple times about…

FTC Bars X-Mode from Selling Sensitive Location Data

By Adam Schwartz Phone app location data brokers are a growing menace to our privacy and…

Federal Judge Upholds Arizonans’ Right to Record the Police

By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz The Arizona legislature last year passed a law (H.B. 2319…

Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online

By Jason Kelley and Adam Schwartz Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and…

Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops

By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz In a partial victory for police accountability, the U.S. Court…

Victory! Another Court Protects the Right to Record Police

By Adam Schwartz and Mukund Rathi When people fear that the police are about to break…

Victory! More Lawsuits Proceed Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance

By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, free speech, and…

Resisting the Menace of Face Recognition

By Adam Schwartz Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression,…

Face Recognition Isn’t Just Face Identification and Verification: It’s Also Photo Clustering, Race Analysis, Real-time Tracking, and More

By Bennett Cyphers, Adam Schwartz, and Nathan Sheard Governments and corporations are tracking how we go…

Victory! Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance

By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, and free speech.…

DHS’s Flawed Plan for Mobile Driver’s Licenses

By Adam Schwartz and Alexis Hancock Digital identification can invade our privacy and aggravate existing social…

Clearview’s Face Surveillance Still Has No First Amendment Defense

By Adam Schwartz Clearview AI extracts faceprints from billions of people, without their consent, and uses…

Decoding California’s New Digital Vaccine Records and Potential Dangers

By Alexis Hancock, Adam Schwartz, and Jon Callas The State of California recently released what it…

Community Control of Police Spy Tech

By Nathan Sheard and Adam Schwartz All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive…

First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police

By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz EFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First…