Libraries are among freedom’s most important tools, and the internet has radically expanded access to knowledge in ways earlier generations could only have dreamed. Hear @brewsterkahle tell the @internetarchive's story on EFF's “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything

It’s unsurprising that Eugene police have been crediting all their successes to license-plate readers, EFF’s Sarah Hamid told Lookout Eugene-Springfield; police often do that when Flock contracts are the subject of public outrage. “That is play-for-play from the playbook.” https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/justice/2025/09/10/voices-grow-louder-in-debate-over-license-plate-reader-technology/

Understanding if IMSI catchers are being used to spy on protests is one of the main goals of the Rayhunter project. Dozens of our community members brought Rayhunter to dozens of protests all over the US. So far we have not found any evidence of cell-site simulators being used to spy on protests in the US — though we have found them in use elsewhere. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far

NEW on EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” - @internetarchive founder @brewsterkahle joins Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley to discuss how the free flow of knowledge makes all of us more free. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything

It’s disappointing that Ring has chosen this moment, when police and the government are infringing civil liberties left and right, to revive its tech’s most invasive feature: helping police get videos captured by home security cameras.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/ring-community-requests-lets-police-ask-for-user-videos-a2437818485/

Install Privacy Badger organization-wide to protect your community from online surveillance and malvertising. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libraries-schools-why-organizations-should-install-privacy-badger

ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware

“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” https://san.com/cc/not-so-secret-xs-new-encrypted-chat-feature-puts-users-at-risk-experts-say/

Age verification mandates are a dream come true for Big Tech platforms, which will end up with more traffic and a whole lot more data. But these laws are a nightmare for users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/age-verification-windfall-big-tech-and-death-sentence-smaller-platforms

Privacy Badger isn’t just for individuals. Libraries and schools can install Privacy Badger organization-wide to make private and secure browsing the default on their computers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libraries-schools-why-organizations-should-install-privacy-badger

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why. https://ssd.eff.org/module/why-metadata-matters

A federal judge ruled that fair use allowed Anthropic to train Claude on copyrighted books—but decided to send misguided “piracy” claims to trial. Facing copyright's ridiculous statutory penalties, Anthropic agreed to pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html

While digital ID gets pushed as the solution to the problem of uploading IDs to each site users access, the security and privacy on them varies based on implementation. But when privacy is involved, regulators must make room for negotiation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/verifying-trust-digital-id-still-incomplete

Thanks to Mississippi’s sweeping age verification law, residents just lost access to Bluesky and Dreamwidth. These mandates don’t rein in Big Tech—they entrench it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/age-verification-windfall-big-tech-and-death-sentence-smaller-platforms

Axon’s AI police report writing tool is designed to not keep a record of which parts of a final report were written by AI and which parts were written by the officer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency

A federal judge ruled that fair use allowed Anthropic to train Claude on copyrighted books—but decided to send misguided “piracy” claims to trial. Facing copyright's ridiculous statutory penalties, Anthropic agreed to pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html

Proponents claim that age verification mandates will help hold Big Tech companies accountable. But as we’re seeing in Mississippi, these laws cause smaller platforms to close and users to suffer while Big Tech reaps the rewards. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/age-verification-windfall-big-tech-and-death-sentence-smaller-platforms

"The unsettling feeling that your device is spying on you is real — but the culprit isn't a secret microphone. It's the data broker industry," EFF’s @evacide tells CNET. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/no-your-iphone-isnt-listening-to-you-heres-whats-really-happening/

“It’s important to avoid uploading photos (to ChatGPT or other AI) that you want to make sure nobody but you ever looks at,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @WSJ - too many AI users assume a certain level of privacy that actually might not be there. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-photos-safety-83dd9b5b