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Reminder: Privacy requirement for app submissions starts May 1 The App Store was created to be a safe place for users to discover and get millions of apps all around the world. Over the years, we‘ve built many critical…
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…
Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy’s Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn sp…
Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as…
A Dual Perspective on Synthetic Trajectory Generators: Utility Framework and Privacy Vulnerabilities arXiv:2604.19653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data are used in numerous applications, ranging from pu…
Sherpa.ai Privacy-Preserving Multi-Party Entity Alignment without Intersection Disclosure for Noisy Identifiers arXiv:2604.19219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model train…
Secure Storage and Privacy-Preserving Scanpath Comparison via Garbled Circuits in Eye Tracking arXiv:2604.19422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing use of eye tracking on VR and mobile platforms, gaze data i…
Multi-user Pufferfish Privacy arXiv:2512.18632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies how to achieve individual indistinguishability by pufferfish privacy in aggregated query to a multi-user system. It is…
Function Recovery Attacks in Gate-Hiding Garbled Circuits using SAT Solving arXiv:2601.13271v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semi-Private Function Evaluation (SPFE) enables joint computation while protecting both inp…
Audit-or-Cast: Enforcing Honest Elections with Privacy-Preserving Public Verification arXiv:2604.18163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electronic voting systems must balance public verifiability with voter privacy an…
Private Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation via Hellinger Distance Differential Privacy arXiv:2501.14974v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Objective functions based on Hellinger distance yield robust and effici…
Amicus Brief to the European Court of Human Rights on spyware and surveillance in Azerbaijan The post Amicus Brief to the European Court of Human Rights on spyware and surveillance in Azerbaijan appeared first on Access…
Audit: Big Tech Often Ignores CA Privacy Law Opt-Out Requests Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don't comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds.
Molecular profiling of gene-edited cells reveals shared drug-resistance mechanisms Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01181-9 A platform for tracking the changes in gene expression and chrom…
EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government Google's Failure to Warn Users About Law Enforcement Demands for Data Is Deceptive SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Founda…
Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border When people see Customs & Border Protection's giant, tethered surveillance blimp flying 20 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, lots of them confuse it wi…
👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7 Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracki…
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…
Google and Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities In late 2024, we urged Google and Amazon to honor their human rights commitments, to be more transparent with the public, and to take meaningful action…
Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show: Learn More About EFF, Privacy's Defender, and Watch the Interview About EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF’s…
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…
US Tech Companies Must be Accountable in US Courts for Facilitating Persecution and Torture Abroad, EFF Urges US Supreme Court Cisco Systems Case Has Major Implications for Global Human Rights SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. techn…
Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here A new report from 404 Media sheds light on how automated license plate readers (ALPRs) could be used beyond the press releases and glossy marketing m…
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…
WWDC24 visionOS guide WWDC24 GUIDE visionOS The infinite canvas is waiting for you. In this year’s sessions, you’ll get an overview of great visionOS app design, explore object tracking, and discover new RealityKit APIs.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration at Meta: Framework, Lessons, and Takeaways We’re sharing lessons learned from Meta’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration to help other organizations strengthen their resilience…
We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702 We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans’ communications with…
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…
EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show! Tonight Monday, March 30 EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and PT, speaking with host Jon Stewart.
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security.
D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Hello Developer: March 2026 In this edition: Join Apple at GDC. Get tips on privacy and security in a new developer activity.
Mexican Surveillance Company Grupo Seguritech is a Mexican surveillance company that is expanding into the US.
Introducing Trackio: A Lightweight Experiment Tracking Library from Hugging Face
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.