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When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart—and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers
Workplace surveillance tools are extremely popular. Some may also be illegal.
It’s time to be proactive about user privacy. Find out if you’re sending too much data to Facebook—or if you need to send data at all
Court records reveal how police in the U.S. use text messages, emails, search history to prosecute people seeking abortions.
For New York teacher Michael Flanagan, the pandemic was a crash course in new technology — rushing out laptops to stay-at-home students and shifting hectic school life online.
Students are long back at school, but the technology has lived on, and with it has come a new generation of apps that...
Students are long back at school, but the technology has lived on, and with it has come a new generation of apps that...
Law enforcement can potentially use this data for prosecutions.
An own-voice discussion from a high-school student.
In 2019, we exposed the practices of five menstruation apps that were sharing your most intimate data with Facebook and other third parties. We were pleased to see that upon the publication of our research some of them decided to change their practices.
“The internet allows us to connect to a lot of really great important information, and kids are less likely to access it if they know that they're being surveilled," says Cody Venzke at the Center for Democracy & Technology. But school technology officials say the benefits outweigh the concerns.
Viral TikToks often feature interviews with people on the street or quick shots of strangers going about their day. But without consent to film them for content, it ends up feeling exploitative and creepy.
Fired employees “misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data.”
A brilliantly innovative combination of the material and the digital
EFF continued to expand our work on technology issues in the workplace in 2022. We first renewed our attention to worker privacy when the specter of “bossware”—tracking software on work devices—reared its ugly head at the start of the pandemic.Since then, EFF has joined with those in the labor...
Kelly Conlon took her daughter to see the Rockettes in the Christmas Spectacular in NYC, but was not allowed in after facial recognition identified her because...