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Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect yo...
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion
A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towe...
“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.
There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. I...
Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio
This week's Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 20...
On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were al...
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
Lots of articles about this. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog modera...
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that...
Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future.
This month, we celebrate 36 years of EFF and a mission that is bigger than any one of us. Thanks to EFF, communities around the world are demanding that technol...
How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I'd fight ...
Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry
Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI...