NGOs call for immediate release of ​Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was upheld We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year prison sentence was recently upheld.

EFF joins our allies in calling for the immediate release of Saudi Wikipedia contributor and friend of EFF Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was recently upheld. alqst.org/en/post/ngo...

Amos went to Grinnell

Age verification is coming for the internet — and it’s already raising red flags Legislative efforts to age-gate parts of the internet are gaining traction. Some experts warn of compliance complications and data security breaches.

“Why would we, ... in the name of protecting people, create a whole other legal mandate that requires the collection and storage of even more personally identifying information that would be subject to either data thieves or data breaches?” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com.

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at...

If you haven't been paying attention to niche national security law, you should now. This surveillance program collects communications from all over the globe--and when folks talk to people in the US, the US side of the convo is stored and the FBI can sift through it without a warrant.

A lil 🧵:

If you feel the same way, I’d love to hear your stories.

I even turned comments on for this one!

If you feel the same way, I’d love to hear your stories.

I even turned comments on for this one!

Quite a job to give a pity hire

Age-verification laws are sold as child protection, but @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social tells us 76% of sex educators say they threaten sex ed access. The same logic is playing out on social media: IG banned @bellesaco.bsky.social for saying “clitoris.” Vague laws are a Trojan horse for abuse.

My latest post in this series looks at internet shutdowns as another digital legacy of the Arab Spring.

A harmonized approach to denying young people their fundamental rights to speak and receive information. Shameful example of pseudo tech solutionism.

+1. We'll regret it and find it as unnecessary as the V-chip. And it will be really hard to undo and leave lots of young people who rely on the online world to find community and resources not available to them more isolated than ever.

Hopefully nothing comes out of the grand jury to which any information to which any information obtained form Reddit will be provided. But this is worth watching closely.

EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Google's Failure to Warn Users About Law Enforcement Demands for Data Is Deceptive

Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) www.eff.org/press/relea...

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered. When governments invoke “misinformation” during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech they do n...

I published this yesterday. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Today I learned that my friend Ahmed Shihab Eldin is among those detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where ...

"We are in a time of conflicts started by rich men, amid an ecological collapse, and our concern is children being online? ... Age gating punishes young for crises they did not create, whilst protecting those truly responsible from accountability."

New Speaking Freely!

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Our latest Speaking Freely interview is live 🗣️ This time we're joined by Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco to discuss how she sees freedom of expression as a communal value necessary to combatting structures of power. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where ...

"We need to confront the truth that the conditions that ruin childhood are not on social media. They are bombs, poverty, divisive politics." Read the whole thing (Right now. Really.) Share widely. www.eff.org/pages/speaki...

"Because why do you need to age-gate social media if it's not for control? We always frame things like this as protection under the guise of paternalism. But deep inside, we see how it is a tool to control a young population who are just now getting very politically active."

"I want a society where people can speak truthfully about the conditions and be heard, where dissent is not criminalized and where expression becomes a force for transformation rather than a tool for control. "

There is a ton of Jean's wisdom in this interview. Some snippets: "The real foundation of freedom of expression and freedom of speech is who can speak without consequences and who pays the price for doing so. "

This is a banger of a Speaking Freely with Dr Jean Linis-Dinco of Manushya Foundation, who wrote their powerful statement on age-gating, still the best thing I have read about the issue. www.manushyafoundation.org/manushya-s-s...

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where ...

"We are in a time of conflicts started by rich men, amid an ecological collapse, and our concern is children being online? ... Age gating punishes young for crises they did not create, whilst protecting those truly responsible from accountability."

New Speaking Freely!

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just a day for me to emphasize my dotage

oranges, poranges

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There is tremendous global momentum behind today's efforts to age-gate the internet. The momentum is so strong and rights of young people so underappreciated that the conversation readily shifts to "how can we do this and protect privacy?" instead of "why do this?" I will keep trying to stop it. 7/7

I write this today because yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of my becoming a parent (happy birthday kid). it was a happy and festive day. But we are again fighting efforts to deny young people their rights to speak and access information to try to protect them. 6/

So all of those people back in 1997 were wrong. Ha! 5/

This feeling only increased as they got older and became more of their own people. Sure, there plenty of times when I disagreed with their choices and worried about the effects of media they chose to consume. We talked about it a lot. But I never wanted the state to step in. 4/

And when I did become a father a few years later, it actually made me feel even more strongly about the rights of young people. It was clear to me very early on that they were their own people, not just balls of clay for me to mold. They were their own human beings with their own rights. 3/

I thought this was odd -- I mean I felt fairly close to being a young person myself, even though I was at least twice the age of the young people I was advocating for. So I would just respond "Maybe. I guess we'll see." 2/