For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.
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“Safer hops for email” – EFF’s plan to cut down on email snooping
STARTTLS is the email command that switches into encrypted mode. EFF just announced “STARTTLS Everyhere” to get everyone on board…
US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates
It is something few Americans will have heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates – and not in a good way.
Live feeds from license plate readers exposed online
The EFF has found more than 100 ALPR cameras streaming live, “often with totally open Web pages accessible by anyone with a browser.”
Library to close down anonymous Tor browsing after DHS pressure
Within a few weeks of setting up as a relay, DHS let it be known that the library’s plans to eventually become a Tor exit node might not be a wise course of action.
EFF and MuckRock run census to find out how local police track your biometrics
Fill out the EFF form to generate a public records request and find out how police are tracking your fingers, face, DNA, tattoos and more.
Privacy outcry over proposal to reveal website owners’ identities
An ICANN proposal would strip the rights of commercial site owners to use proxy services to shield their identities: a move the EFF says comes from copyright-hungry entertainment companies.
WhatsApp ranked worst at protecting user data
Even the one star WhatsApp got in the EFF’s ranking – for publicly opposing backdoors for government spying – was inherited from Facebook.
California passes law requiring warrant to search computers, cellphones and tablets
The hodgepodge of US state and federal laws about phone search, some of which say the law needs a warrant and some of which say they don’t, just got a bit messier.
DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records
Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.