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EFF's Statement on Dobb's Abortion Ruling

DEEPLINKS BLOG

By Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry

June 24, 2022

"Today's decision deprives millions of people of a fundamental right, and also underscores the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. Everyone deserves to have strong controls over the collection and use of information they necessarily leave behind as they go about their normal activities, like using apps, search engine queries, posting on social media, texting friends, and so on. But those seeking, offering, or facilitating abortion access must now assume that any data they provide online or offline could be sought by law enforcement.

People should carefully review privacy settings on the services they use, turn off location services on apps that don’t need them, and use encrypted messaging services. Companies should protect users by allowing anonymous access, stopping behavioral tracking, strengthening data deletion policies, encrypting data in transit, enabling end-to-end message encryption by default, preventing location tracking, and ensuring that users get notice when their data is being sought. And state and federal policymakers must pass meaningful privacy legislation. All of these steps are needed to protect privacy, and all are long overdue."

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

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Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them.

For those with design, programming, and/or security skills, volunteering to dig into the code is an even more direct way to contribute to these projects.

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HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.

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Privacy Badger

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Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.

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Certbot

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Certbot is a free, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually-administered websites to enable HTTPS.

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Cover Your Tracks

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Cover Your Tracks analyzes how well your browser and add-ons protect you against online tracking techniques.

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Surveillance Self-Defense

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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

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Security Education Companion

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The Security Education Companion (SEC) is EFF’s resource for people teaching digital security to their friends and neighbors.

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Atlas of Surveillance

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The Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable database and map that reveals which technologies, such as drones and automated license plate readers, are used by domestic law enforcement agencies across the United States.

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Crocodile Hunter

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Crocodile Hunter is a tool to detect and find so-called “Stingrays” or “IMSI Catchers,” devices that identify an individual mobile phone in a crowd by mimicking a cell phone tower.

 

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