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Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn in the strongest possible terms the cyberattack on the World…
Update for Apps Distributed in Texas Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app m…
New In-App Purchase and subscription data now available in Analytics Analytics in App Store Connect receives its biggest update since its launch, including a refreshed user experience that makes it easier to measure the…
Threads rolls out parental supervision tools With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.
HantaWatch: Federated Learning for Hantavirus Genomic Surveillance arXiv:2607.16234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hantavirus genomic surveillance is limited by the distribution of sequence data, non-IID source hetero…
Med-OPD: Improving Medical Vision-Language Models via Evidence-Aware On-Policy Distillation arXiv:2607.16303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) require reliable reasoning from fin…
Privacy-Aware Synthetic Video Benchmarking and Relational Evaluation for Worker-Under-Suspended-Load Detection arXiv:2607.16351v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Publicly shareable construction-video benchmarks remain sc…
How Formerly Incarcerated People Envision Technologies for Prison Parole arXiv:2607.16513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-driven algorithms and automated tools are increasingly embedded in the correctional landscape…
Fast and Private Max-Sum Diversification arXiv:2607.17196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Result diversification is crucial for generating informative, non-redundant data summaries and query outputs. Although its various…
Optimal Domain-Aware Privacy Mechanisms for Synthetic Data Generation arXiv:2607.18021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) imposes fundamental trade-offs between privacy and statistical fidelity i…
Gradient-Free Privacy Leakage in Federated Language Models through Selective Weight Tampering arXiv:2310.16152v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has become a key component in various language mo…
Functional Approximation Methods for Differentially Private Distribution Estimation arXiv:2501.06620v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The cumulative distribution function (CDF) is fundamental for characterizing random…
Inside Qubic's Selfish Mining Campaign on Monero: Evidence, Tactics, and Limits arXiv:2512.01437v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Qubic's 2025 campaign against Monero provides a rare public case of selfish mining in a…
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 your privacy.
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…
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 allegedly stolen from…
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 a…
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 Ba…
Protecting Privacy in an AI Era Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link ) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we ne…
🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13 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 sprawli…
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m…
Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these m…
EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That mean…
The FCC’s Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme The Federal Communications Commission wants to require telecommunications providers to collect vast amounts of personal information from every person who wan…
The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act , a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private mess…
The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social…
EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border This week, EFF joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in writing to the UK’s Minister of State for Border Security and As…
Field Notes from a Year of OPSEC Training Late last year, as part of our annual “Year in Review” series, we summarized our efforts providing digital privacy and security advice to at-risk communities. OPSEC trainings (s…
How Infold Games fashioned an open world for Infinity Nikki Infinity Nikki is a literally glowing example of what video game graphics can be. The fifth in a series of dress-up titles from Infold Games, Infinity Nikki is…
Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features, updated policies, and clarifications. Please review the changes and…
Hello Developer: August 2024 Meet with Apple Explore the latest developer activities — including sessions, consultations, and labs — all around the world. Browse the full schedule > BEHIND THE DESIGN Creating the make-b…
Updates to runtime protection in macOS Sequoia In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit…
Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants? When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are…
Next steps for apps distributed in Texas Today we’re releasing more details about the tools we’re making available for developers to help them meet their compliance obligations under upcoming U.S. state laws, including…
CoinShares debuts Bitcoin mining ETF in Europe entrance The UCITS ETF, CoinShares’ first in Europe, began trading on Deutsche Börse Xetra, tracking a rules-based index of publicly listed BTC miners.
The Money Mule Solution: What Every Scam Has in Common Learn how mule account intelligence — not tactic-tracking — is the most effective lever for preventing APP fraud before funds move.
LGBT Q&A: What Data Are Companies in the UK Collecting When Verifying My Age? This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A .
LGBT Q&A: How Can I Wipe Online Data That Points To My Queer Identity? This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A .
D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.
Hello Developer: March 2026 In this edition: Join Apple at GDC. Get tips on privacy and security in a new developer activity.
Privacy and human rights award 2026 The post Privacy and human rights award 2026 appeared first on Access Now .
Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones This is not science fiction. It’s not premature.
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