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It may sound like a crazy far-fetched dystopian claim, but it’s today’s reality. Following the United States Supreme Court decision overturning access to abortion as a constitutional right, EFF head of cybersecurity Eva Galperin is warning women to delete period tracking apps, potentially identifying women who have terminated pregnancies.

Google has begun a trial of its experimental new technology for ad targeting, known as Federated Learning of Cohorts, selecting a random set of users without notifying them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation that fights for digital rights, says.

Australian Government data stored by American companies which have been certified as Protected cloud providers is not subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows Washington to obtain data stored overseas by American companies in the event that it is deemed to be needed by law enforcement authorities.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium after the latter announced it was accepting the published Encrypted Media Extensions as a Web standard.

Social media behemoth Facebook has admitted that it struggles to control the avalanche of hate speech, spam and fraud on its two billion accounts, turning off more than a million accounts every day.

Internet users in the US have had privacy protections voted in by the Obama administration stripped away, with the House voting 215-205 to pass the measure.

More than half of the traffic on the Web is now protected by encryption, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation dedicated to protecting civil liberties online.

The FBI will be able to hack into computers anywhere in the world if changes to the US Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure are allowed to become law, as they will on December 1.

Civil liberties defender, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has accused Microsoft of blatantly disregarding user choice and privacy in Windows 10.

The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was released a little more than a month ago, but given the fact that it is 5544 pages long only a few aspects of it have come under scrutiny.

Local Internet rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has joined a global protest against mass government surveillance.

US President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies has released its report. It recommends many changes, but some say it doesn’t go far enough. And they are only recommendations – nothing has yet changed.

A last-minute stay-of-execution means users' files on Megaupload are safe for the moment; they just can't be accessed.

Following the revelation early this year that US federal investigators had demanded details from Twitter related to the activities of three prominent Wikileaks supporters, court action was enjoined to stop the data release.

Having collected data from nearly 1,000,000 participants, the EFF has determined that your PC is easy to identify on the Internet, without a single bit of information written to it by any site.