For more than 10 years, EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere browser extension has provided a much-needed service to users: encrypting their browser communications with websites and making sure they benefit from the protection of HTTPS wherever possible. Since we started offering HTTPS Everywhere, the battle to ...

WhatsApp is rolling out an option for users to encrypt their message backups, and that is a big win for user privacy and security. The new feature is expected to be available for both iOS and Android “in the coming weeks.” EFF has pointed out unencrypted backups as...

There are more federal facial recognition technology (FRT) systems than there are federal agencies using them, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Its latest report on current and planned use of FRT by federal agencies reveals that, among the 24 agencies surveyed, there are 27 federal FRT...

مع انسحاب الولايات المتحدة الأميركية من أفغانستان بعد 20 عاماً من الاحتلال، سيكون لآثار البقاء في هذه البلاد فترة طويلة معنى جديداً كما ستمثّل فصلاً جديداً من الخطر على الشعب الأفغاني. على مدى عقدين من الزمن، قادت الولايات المتحدة عملية جمع المعلومات عن شعب أفغانستان لأسباب بيروقراطية شائعة مثل كشوفات...

EFF, European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and other civil society organizations have worked closely on recommendations to strengthen human rights protections in a flawed international cross border police surveillance treaty drafted by the Council of Europe (CoE). At a virtual hearing...