We asked trainers what concepts were “aha moments for them. Here’s one such concept. "The cloud is just someone else’s computer."

First, I want to thank all my supporters out there. I've been told about the attention this case is getting from all the world, and I appreciate it more than I can say. To my friends, family and…

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This is a guest post by Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance. It was originally published on the Media Alliance website. For the last two years (2017 and 2018) of the Urban Shield…

The Department of Homeland Security in a report released Wednesday said that it is aiming to use facial recognition techno

Facebook says that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change circa May 2016.

Everyone wants to protect children from online pornography. But the British government’s approach is likely to do more harm than good

Police Services purchased three surveillance cameras disguised as smoke detectors and electrical outlet plugs in October 2018.

Last week was the latest setback in the fight to see how the NYPD looks at all of us — specifically, how it uses facial recognition. A state Supreme Court judge forced privacy researchers to give back…

El último día 11 de abril, el presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, publicó un decreto que extingue los órganos colegiados en la esfera federal. El decreto nº 9.759/2019 afirma que serán eliminados…

Hours after the ejection of Julian Assange from the London Ecuadorean embassy last week, police officers in Ecuador detained the Swedish citizen and open source developer Ola Bini. They seized him as…

Thanks to a recent ruling by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith, drivers in Fairfax County, Virginia need not worry that local police are maintaining ALPR records of their travels for…

As was widely expected, the EU Council (made up of representatives of the EU member states) has officially rubber stamped the EU Copyright Directive that the EU Parliament passed a few weeks back.…

San Francisco is inching closer to becoming the first American city to ban facial recognition surveillance, a booming technology that’s a fast-growing business in the United States and extends to the…

The recent arrest of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange surprised many by hinging on one charge: a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) charge for a single, unsuccessful attempt to reverse engineer a…

Stupid Patent of the MonthThere’s an increasing insistence from the highest echelons of the patent world that patent abuse just isn’t a thing anymore. The Director of the U.S. Patent Office, Andre…

Using a public camera, we looked for prominent people walking through a New York City park. What we found shows the technology's promise — and perils.

Scrapping this restriction and allowing successful networks to expand would connect more people to broadband, all without the state spending a dollar.

UPDATE (2/16/18): We have corrected this post to more accurately reflect the limits of Slack's encryption of user data at rest. We have also clarified that granular retention settings are only…

Revealed: Ice investigators set up social media profiles linked to a sham university for foreign students

Join us for our third annual exploration of the fascinating, obscure, and trivial minutiae of digital security, online rights, and Internet culture. It’s the ultimate technology quiz crafted by EFF…

Despite Facebook’s repeated warnings that law enforcement is required to use “authentic identities” on the social media platform, cops continue to create fake and impersonator accounts to secretly spy…

Get ready for a tale as good as anything you’d see on television. Here’s the sequence of events: the website TorrentFreak publishes an article about a leak of TV episodes, including shows from the…