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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Stay on the cutting edge of digital rights news with EFFector, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's bi-weekly podcast. Each episode features EFF's lawyers, activists, and technologists breaking down our latest work to defend your privacy and free speech online. The EFFector podcast is the audio companion to our email newsletter—subscribe at eff.org/effector.

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August 19 · 52 min
How Mobile Apps Can Leak Your Location to Advertisers
Your location isn't just a pin on a map. Once collected, this information can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. A new EFF report highlights how location data is harvested from apps on our phones—potentially without app developers themselves even realizing it.
July 29 · 27 min
Health Data Is Personal. Fitness Trackers Should Keep It That Way.
Watches, bands, and rings—if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it. And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device. But what are the companies that make fitness trackers doing to protect our sensitive data from prying eyes? A lot less than they could be, it turns out.
July 15 · 32 min
Congress's New Push to Age-Gate the Internet
The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see and say online.
June 24 · 35 min
Domestic Spying Takes an L
Section 702 is the law has let intelligence agencies spy on millions of Americans’ private conversations without a warrant. Despite years of revelations about this law's misuse, Congress has repeatedly reauthorized Section 702 without meaningful reform. Until this month, that is.
June 10 · 30 min
Mass Surveillance to Stop... Loud Music?
Across the country, surveillance companies have spun a vast web of tens of thousands of license plate cameras. The people selling this tech want you to believe that it's for your safety, but how are authorities really using license plate readers?
May 20 · 28 min
A Big Win for Encrypted Messaging
When it comes to keeping our texts, chats, and other digital messages safe from prying eyes, we have a powerful tool: end-to-end encryption. Used correctly, end-to-end encryption turns our conversations online into secret messages that can only be decoded by their intended recipients. This month marks an important step forward for encrypted messaging—as well as a notable disappointment.
May 6 · 46 min
California's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Social Media Ban
We'd all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online safety, governments around the world are racing to impose a dangerous new system of control.
April 22 · 34 min
When Homeland Security Wants Names, Will Google Have Your Back?
When we use the internet, we're entrusting tech companies with some of our most private information. These companies have promised they'll keep our data safe. But what happens when the government comes knocking at their doors?
April 8 · 39 min
How License Plate Readers Are Normalizing Mass Surveillance
All across the country, police have convinced communities to pay for mass surveillance systems like license plate readers, claiming they will help stop the most serious crimes. But once these ever-watchful electronic eyes are installed in your city, it's not just violent criminals they're recording—it's everyone.
March 25 · 37 min
Who's Really Watching What Smartglasses See?
Thanks to smartphones, almost everybody these days is carrying a little video camera around in their pocket, all the time. But the next time a stranger films you in public, you might not be able to tell they're recording at all. In fact, their camera might look just like an ordinary pair of glasses.
March 11 · 42 min
How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, new reporting has confirmed.
March 4 · 1 min
Introducing EFFector From the Electronic Frontier Foundation
The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground where tomorrow's civil liberties will be won—or lost. Each episode of the EFFector podcast will fill you in on the most important news in digital rights, highlighting key developments in the fight for a world where technology supports freedom, not tyranny.

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