Police are Using Drones More and Spending More For Them

By Matthew Guariglia and Beryl Lipton Police in Minnesota are buying and flying more drones than…

The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy

By Matthew Guariglia, Brendan Gilligan, and Cindy Cohn A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two…

What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports?

By Matthew Guariglia Axon—the makers of widely-used police body cameras and tasers (and that also keeps…

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition is Tornado of Bad Ideas

By Paige Collings and Matthew Guariglia In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated,…

San Francisco Police’s Live Surveillance Yields Almost 200 Hours of Spying — Including of Music Festivals

By Saira Hussain and Matthew Guariglia A new report reveals that in just three months, from…

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

By Matthew Guariglia Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police’s warrantless requests…

U.S. Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? And Who Do They Share that Information With?

By Matthew Guariglia U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has sent a much-needed letter to car…

The Intelligence Committees’ Proposals for a 702 Reauthorization Bill are Beyond Bad

By Matthew Guariglia Both congressional intelligence committees have now released proposals for reauthorizing the government’s Section…

Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn’t be Tied to Funding the Government

By Matthew Guariglia Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in…

Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance

By Matthew Guariglia In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the…

GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training

By Beryl Lipton and Matthew Guariglia Federal agents are using face recognition software without training, policies,…

Cities Should Act NOW to Ban Predictive Policing…and Stop Using ShotSpotter, Too

By Matthew Guariglia and Jason Kelley Sound Thinking, the company behind ShotSpotter—an acoustic gunshot detection technology…

The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars

By Matthew Guariglia Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to…

Deja Vu: The FBI Proves Again it Can’t be Trusted with Section 702

By Matthew Guariglia We all deserve privacy in our communications, and part of that is trusting…

SFPD Obtained Live Access to Business Camera Network in Anticipation of Tyre Nichols Protest

By Matthew Guariglia New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San…