EFFVerified account

@EFF

We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world, and this week we're celebrating the Las Vegas hacker conferences.

San Francisco, CA
eff.org/VV2021
Joined August 2006
Born 1990
1,779 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @EFF

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @EFF

  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 3

    Cheers to all the researchers, tinkerers, hackers, and reverse engineers who are pushing infosec to new heights. Together we can—and must—ensure that the future of technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for everyone.

    2 replies 30 retweets 78 likes
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    Aug 2

    Infrastructure bill is not the place to get into something as complicated and unrelated as fintech/blockchain regulation. Just has so many bad unintended consequences. Significantly weakens US competitive position, not to mention creates massive data privacy & security issues.

    Here are 6 reasons we hate the new cryptocurrency surveillance provision buried in Biden's infrastructure bill:
    Show this thread
    16 retweets 49 likes
    Undo
  3. 2 hours ago

    Are you and your friends tech experts? Sign up to participate in EFF's Tech Trivia today to play and win some prizes!

    1 reply 6 retweets 19 likes
    Undo
  4. 2 hours ago

    Apple: Think Different. Users: Great! Apple: About encryption and privacy. Users: Yeah!! Apple: We’re scanning your private messages, and we’re gonna tell your parents. Users:

    13 replies 106 retweets 189 likes
    Undo
  5. 2 hours ago

    Apple's filtering of iMessage and iCloud is not a slippery slope to backdoors that suppress speech and make our communications less secure. We’re already there: this is a fully-built system just waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change.

    1 reply 137 retweets 222 likes
    Undo
  6. 4 hours ago

    EFF and 15 other organizations are calling on Congress to act swiftly to amend the vague and dangerous digital currency provision of Biden’s infrastructure bill. Read more here:

    17 retweets 40 likes
    Undo
  7. 6 hours ago

    “Built into the marketing strategy of this company is a wink and a nod saying: Police, if you help us market this device to consumers, you will get a perk, that perk being more surveillance that you would not have access to otherwise.” -EFF's

    1 reply 22 retweets 28 likes
    Undo
  8. 6 hours ago

    Whether or not you're in Las Vegas for this week's hacker cons, you can still celebrate curiosity, innovation, and internet freedom with us! Join EFF this year and support tech users everywhere.

    5 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  9. 7 hours ago

    This morning, , and other civil society groups sent a letter calling on U.S. Senators to act swiftly to fix the overbroad cryptocurrency provision in the infrastructure bill.

    3 replies 50 retweets 104 likes
    Undo
  10. 23 hours ago

    Today, everything we do involves the internet. Tomorrow, everything will require it. We can’t afford to let our digital citizenship be reduced to a heavy-handed mess of unreadable terms of service and broken appeals processes.

    2 replies 40 retweets 122 likes
    Undo
  11. 23 hours ago

    The asked Executive Director Cindy Cohn and six other luminaries to rewrite parts of the Constitution

    10 replies 9 retweets 52 likes
    Undo
  12. Aug 4

    EFF's Tech Trivia will be live on August 6 at 5 pm Pacific Time. Think you've got what it takes to win some prizes? Sign up today!

    1 reply 16 retweets 27 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Aug 4

    . supports the Wyden-Toomey-Lummis amendment. “Nonetheless, we wish that the infrastructure bill was not attempting to address as complex and nuanced an issue as reporting requirements around cryptocurrency," tells me.

    16 retweets 28 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Aug 2

    Here are 6 reasons we hate the new cryptocurrency surveillance provision buried in Biden's infrastructure bill:

    61 replies 761 retweets 2,000 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  15. Retweeted
    Aug 4

    Facebook claims they shut down the researchers accounts due to privacy problems with the Ad Observer. In our view, those claims simply do not hold water. We know this because we reviewed the code ourselves before recommending it. Read more here:

    5 replies 234 retweets 453 likes
    Undo
  16. Aug 4

    EFF, , and partner organizations to Ninth Circuit: online platforms have the right to remove content and we have the right to disagree. Government retaliation, like Texas AG Paxton’s investigation of Twitter, crosses the line.

    2 replies 12 retweets 14 likes
    Undo
  17. Aug 4

    Dearest Hackers, We're sad not to see you in Las Vegas at , , and , but we can really use your support. Remember to renew your EFF membership and keep fighting for online privacy and free speech all year. Your Pal, EFF 🖤

    2 replies 32 retweets 95 likes
    Undo
  18. Aug 4

    We have the right to a better digital future - a future where the ambitions of would-be monopolists and their shareholders take a back-seat to fairness, equity, and your right to self-determination.

    38 retweets 67 likes
    Undo
  19. Aug 4

    EFF is proud to be a supporter of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium!

    1 reply 7 retweets 26 likes
    Undo
  20. Aug 4

    DRM, EULAs and monopoly - three reasons that a tech company can make you totally dependent on its service and then cut you off without explanation or appeal, bricking your thermostat, confiscating your audiobooks, and stealing a decade's worth of photos.

    6 replies 48 retweets 79 likes
    Undo
  21. Aug 3

    In honor of the summer hacker conferences, EFF's annual mystery-filled t-shirt is available online, but it won't last long! Snag one before they're gone.

    6 retweets 17 likes
    Undo

@EFF hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·