Electronic Frontier Foundation Archives

Google to hide user location even from itself, preventing it from giving data to law enforcement

Alphabet’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants …

California Cops Send License Plate Data To Anti-Abortion States

by Horatio Thompson

Automated license plate readers have been a nightmare for privacy rights activists for over a decade, but last year’s Supreme Court Dobbs decision created an even darker vision: the possibility …