< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Join us for our next EFFecting Change livestream this Thursday! We’re talking about emerging laws and platform policies that affect the digital privacy and free expression rights of the LGBT+ community,…
Category: Deeplinks
Congress Can Act Now to Protect Reproductive Health Data
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly concerned about the harms they believe the internet and new technology are causing to users of all categories. Lawmakers are…
Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829),…
Despite Changes, A.B. 412 Still Harms Small Developers
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> California lawmakers are continuing to promote a bill that will reinforce the power of giant AI companies by burying small AI companies and non-commercial developers in red…
35 Years for Your Freedom Online
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Once upon a time we were promised flying cars and jetpacks. Yet we’ve arrived at a more complicated timeline where rights advocates can find themselves defending our…
NYC lets AI gamble with Child Welfare
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Markup revealed in its reporting last month that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has been quietly deploying an algorithmic tool to categorize families…
Criminalizing Masks at Protests is Wrong
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> There has been a crescendo of states attempting to criminalize the wearing of face coverings while attending protests. Now the President has demanded, in the context of…
Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit
Court to Decide Scope of Injunction Later This Week < div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> NEW YORK–In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary…
Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City’s Flock ALPR Contract
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the…
EFF to Department Homeland Security: No Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> EFF submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subcomponent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), urging them to abandon a proposal to collect…
EFF to Court: Young People Have First Amendment Rights
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Utah cannot stifle young people’s First Amendment rights to use social media to speak about politics, create art, discuss religion, or to hear from other users discussing…
Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> If you run a site on the open web, chances are you’ve noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your…
The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> The Trump administration has been heavily invested in consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, or perhaps AI-queryable, super database. The compiling of all…
Judges Stand With Law Firms (and EFF) Against Trump’s Executive Orders
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> “Pernicious.” “Unprecedented… cringe-worthy.” “Egregious.” “Shocking.” These are just some of the words that federal judges used in recent weeks to describe President Trump’s politically motivated and vindictive…
Statement on California State Senate Advancing Dangerous Surveillance Bill
In the wake of the California State Senate’s passage of S.B. 690, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), TechEquity, Consumer Federation of California, Tech Oversight California, and ACLU California Action issued a joint statement warning that the bill would put the…
Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor’s Magic Number
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first,…
San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city’s controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous…
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians’ right to access tools,…
The PERA and PREVAIL Acts Would Make Bad Patents Easier to Get—and Harder to Fight
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> Two dangerous bills have been reintroduced in Congress that would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent system more balanced. The Patent Eligibility Restoration…
The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> In criminal prosecutions, electronic monitoring (EM) is pitched as a “humane alternative” to incarceration – but it is not. The latest generation of “e-carceration” tools are burdensome,…