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Standing? Discovery? These may seem like minor, procedural steps in any trial, but when challenging NSA surveillance, they’re huge, and 2017 included a couple of victories.

One of the government’s most powerful surveillance tools is scheduled to sunset in less than three weeks, and, for months, EFF has fought multiple legislative attempts to either extend or expand the NSA’s spying powers—warning the public, Representatives, and Senators about circling bills that...
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2017: The year the Supreme Court finally considered how the Fourth Amendment applies to location data on our devices.

Protecting the highly personal location data stored on or generated by digital devices is one of the 21st century’s most important privacy issues. In 2017, the Supreme Court finally took on the question of how law enforcement can get ahold of this sensitive information. Whenever you use a cell...
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Website blocking at the DNS level not only shuts down speech online, it threatens the stability of the Internet by inviting ever more special interests and governments to use the system for censorship.

In 2017, major entertainment companies continued their quest for power to edit the Internet by blocking entire websites for copyright enforcement—and we’ve continued to push back. Website blocking is a particularly worrisome form of enforcement because it’s a blunt instrument, always likely to...
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2017 was a busy year in nation state hacking. Find out what happened.

If 2016 was the year government hacking went mainstream, 2017 is the year government hacking played the Super Bowl halftime show. It's not Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear making headlines. This week, the Trump administration publicly attributed the WannaCry ransomware attack to the Lazarus Group, which...
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Sacramento became one of the main battlegrounds for digital rights in 2017. Learn how we advocated on broadband privacy and police transparency in California.

In the wake of the 2016 election, California lawmakers quickly adopted the posture of “The Resistance.” For the digital rights community, this presented an opportunity to pursue legislation that had not previously enjoyed much political momentum. As a result, EFF staff found themselves trekking....
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This year, the government targeted immigrants with social media surveillance, biometric screening, data mining, and cell site simulators. Here's how EFF fought back.

In 2017, the federal government surged its high tech snooping on immigrants and foreign visitors, including expanded use of social media surveillance, biometric screening, and data mining. In response, EFF ramped up its advocacy for the digital rights of immigrants. Social Media...
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Syria, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and the UAE are our top offenders for jailing and killing innocent technologists and bloggers in 2017

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Since President Trump took office, EFF has been flooded with requests for surveillance self-defense trainings. Here's how we scaled-up our digital security resources.

The J20 prosecutions prove that online service providers must push back against unconstitutional government demands for user data.

In 2017, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of high-profile cases where law enforcement has deployed digital surveillance techniques against political activists. From the arrest and prosecution of hundreds of January 20, 2017 Inauguration Day (J20) protestors to the systematic targeting,...
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