EFF Updates RSSThe Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
#OnlineBehavioralTracking #LocationDataBrokers #LocationalPrivacy
Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
#OnlineBehavioralTracking #LocationDataBrokers #LocationalPrivacy
Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding
Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding
EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their RTB system is a step in the right direction towards giving people more control over their data. Truly curbing the harms of RTB, however, will require stronger legislative protections.
From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger
From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger
In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private browsing the norm by deploying Privacy Badger on their computers.
Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas-latest-attack-privacy
Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy
The best way to stop this cycle of invasive tracking techniques and patchwork fixes is to ban online behavioral advertising. This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity, removing the primary incentive for companies to track and share your personal data. We need strong federal privacy laws to ensure that you, not Meta, control what information you share online.
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.
EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-us-supreme-courts-decision-uphold-tiktok-ban
#GovernmentSocialMediaBlocking #OnlineBehavioralTracking #SocialNetworks #FreeSpeech #BigTech
EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban
Shutting down a communications platform or forcing its reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti-democratic tactic, one that the US has previously condemned globally.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your online activity. RTB might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of.