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EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review

Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible to grave abuses. Our research sparked state and federal investigations, drove landmark litigation, and exposed dangerous expansion into always-listening voice detection technology. We documented...

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EFF in the Press: 2025 in Review

EFF’s attorneys, activists, and technologists don’t just do the hard, endless work of defending our digital civil rights — they also spend a lot of time and effort explaining that work to the public via media interviews. And EFF had thousands of media mentions in 2025, from the smallest hyperlocal...
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Drone as First Responder Programs: 2025 in Review

Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025, normalizing this invasive technology while incorporating AI and automated directions to replace human operators— while integrating it into more real-time crime center structures. Capturing video of your home, your backyard, and your movements that should require clear policies around...
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Procurement Power—When Cities Realized They Can Just Say No: 2025 in Review

In 2025, elected officials across the country began treating surveillance technology purchases differently: not as inevitable administrative procurements handled by police departments, but as political decisions subject to council oversight and constituent pressure. This shift proved to be the most effective anti-surveillance strategy of the year.Since February, at least 23...

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