We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech—and Winning
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is highlighting its ongoing legal and advocacy work against mass surveillance technologies, using its spring membership drive to draw attention to cases like that of Will Freeman, who built a tool called DeFlock.me to expose how automated license plate readers collect location data on virtually every vehicle that passes them.
Why this matters: License plate readers do not target suspects. They log every car, every time, building a detailed record of where people go without anyone deciding they are worth watching. That data gets stored, shared, and sometimes sold. Most drivers have no idea it is happening. Freeman built a tool to make that visible, which is exactly the kind of work that tends to attract legal risk. Who gets to map your movements — and who gets to see that map — is not a technical question. It is a power question.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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