Double Shot of Privacy's Defender in D.C. You're invited to join EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn at two events in Washington, D.C. on the national tour for her new book: Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital

Cindy Cohn's tour discussing her new book, Privacy's Defender, continues in Washington, D.C. on April 13 with Gigi Sohn and April 14 with WISP! Register now: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....

Weakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they offered. And a New Mexico jury concluded that Meta deceived young users into

Anger towards big tech companies exists because these companies harvest and exploit peoples’ data. We should pass laws to stop that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host—and Why It Failed Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters to website owners, targeted May First Movement Technology, accusing it of infringing a photograph owned by Agence

Copyright law is supposed to reward creators. Too often, it’s used to shake down nonprofits even when they didn't post the accused content. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tech Nonprofits to Feds: Don’t Weaponize Procurement to Undermine AI While the very public fight continues between the Department of Defense and Anthropic over whether the government can punish a company for refusing to allow its technology to be used for mass

Proposed rules about how the government buys and deploys AI could allow bureaucrats to sidestep necessary safeguards and supercharge mass surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight...

The FAA quietly imposed a nationwide drone restriction that prevents filming ICE and other federal agents within half a mile. It’s an attack on the First Amendment.

Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1 When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are being targeted. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from the

Government shouldn't mandate corporate censorship on your devices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield Internet platforms have long been able to rely on special protections to avoid liability for what takes place on their sites. But that may be changing.

“Just labeling something as a design feature means nothing,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cnbc.com. “If it’s speech, it’s speech and it gets both First Amendment protection and potentially Section 230 protection as well.”

A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host—and Why It Failed Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters to website owners, targeted May First Movement Technology, accusing it of infringing a photograph owned by Agence

A nonprofit web host got a copyright demand—for a photo it didn’t post. They removed it anyway. The law firm still demanded money. EFF pushed back, and the claim fell apart. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Speaking Freely: Jacob Mchangama Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, human-rights advocate, and public commentator. He is the founder and director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think tank focusing on human rights, freedom of

In our latest Speaking Freely interview we chat with Jacob Mchangama, lawyer and co-author of "The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom," out April 7th: www.eff.org/pages/speak....

Weakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they offered. And a New Mexico jury concluded that Meta deceived young users into thin...

It may be tempting to celebrate recent social media verdicts, but weakening First Amendment protections harms all of us.

Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director Nicole Ozer, a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Ozer will succeed ...

Kudos to former Practitioner Fellow @nicoleozer.bsky.social, who has been appointed as the Executive Director of @eff.org!

Nicole is a national leader in law and policy to advance rights, justice, and democracy.

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Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation Sixty-six percent of internet users live where political or social sites are blocked, and 78% live in countries where people have been arrested for online posts. This is the second installment of a

Whereas governments once used ad hoc measures to suppress online speech, today, states around the world have systematized censorship, creating durable systems of control. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2 Legislators across the U.S. are proposing laws to force “print blockers” on 3D printers sold in their states. This mandated censorware is doomed to fail for its intended purpose, but will still

Banning 3D parts based on their function is a doomed game of cat and mouse. Algorithmic print blocking will be circumvented by lawbreakers, and legal uses will be censored. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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EFF’s Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge on the internet. Learn more when you join EFF and get the new book Privacy's Defender. supporters.eff.org/donate/join...

A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host—and Why It Failed Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters to website owners, targeted May First Movement Technology, accusing it of infringing a photograph owned by Agence France-Pres...

Got a copyright demand over something you didn’t post? Don’t assume you’re liable—you may have strong legal defenses.

Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1 When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are in the crosshairs. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from

3D Print-blocking laws hand monopolistic power to manufacturers and can criminalize open source alternatives. We need to reject these onerous restraints on creation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF at HOPE 26 The HOPE conference is not only back for another year, but also back in Manhattan for the first time since 2018! EFF is thrilled to be there with talks and a table in the expo hall where you can chat

Calling all security researchers and hackers 📢 Grab your @hope.net tickets by April 30 and 10% of the sale will go to EFF! www.eff.org/event/eff-h...

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EFF thanks Adelia Risk for their support. See how your team can join the fight at eff.org/thanks.

Teens Are Addicted To Social Media. Hawaiʻi Is Reluctant To Set Limits A measure that would have required parental consent for kids under 16 to use social media was deferred indefinitely Wednesday. Similar laws in other states have been held up in court.

“The purpose of all of these laws is to deny young people access to information they have a constitutional right to receive, and also audiences they have a constitutional right to speak to,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @civilbeat.bsky.social.

Cypherpunk Dress-Up Day: Privacy's Defender, Chapter One. In the opening of her new book, Privacy's Defender, EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn takes us with her into the courthouse as she argues the seminal first c...

In her new book, Privacy's Defender, EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn takes us with her into the courthouse back in 1996 as she argues the seminal first case defending privacy in the digital age. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pY....

As is our tradition, the HOPE conference will be running a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation during the month of April. For every ticket sold, 10 percent of the total price will be donated to @eff.org

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When DOGE employees break the law, their names should not be secret.

In the Privacy Act lawsuit against DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management, EFF helped unseal the names of employees at the center of the violations. Read yesterday's Court opinion. www.eff.org/files/2026/...

Virginia police search vehicle surveillance data 24/7. ‘Why?’ isn’t always clear. A VCIJ at WHRO analysis of Flock Safety data shows a startling variety of reasons – mandated by a new state law – for vehicle surveillance. Critics say the automatic license plate reader law has made ...

With automated license plate reader logs, “Anytime somebody leaves something vague as the reason like ‘suspect’ or’ suspicious’, … it doesn't tell you enough to know if it's a legitimate search,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @whropublicmedia.bsky.social.

EFF’s Submission to the UN OHCHR on Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age Governments around the world are adopting new laws and policies aimed at addressing online harms, including laws intended to curb cybercrime and disinformation, and ostensibly protect user safety. Whi...

In a recent submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, we highlighted how evolving regulatory approaches, increased surveillance, and platform policies are affecting human rights defenders. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The FCC Banned New Foreign-Made Wi-Fi Routers. Here’s What That Means. Wi-Fi routers made outside the US are now banned. But you don’t need to toss yours out or buy a new one.

Consumer routers have had issues, but often because "manufacturers don’t issue patches or they don’t bother to notify people when their router is end of life and no longer receiving security updates,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @nytimes.com.