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…
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025,…
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to…
Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing
New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware —software that surveils…
EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government
Google's Failure to Warn Users About Law Enforcement Demands for Data Is Deceptive SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation sent complaints today to the attorneys…
EFF 🤝 HOPE: Join Us This August!
Protecting privacy and free speech online takes more than policy work—it takes community. Conferences like HOPE are where that community comes together to learn, connect, and push…
The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
California’s bill, A.B. 2047 , will not only mandate censorware — software which exists to bluntly block your speech as a user — on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the…
Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border
When people see Customs & Border Protection's giant, tethered surveillance blimp flying 20 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, lots of them confuse it with an art installation.…
Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco
Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Born in the Philippines and shaped by firsthand experience with…
EFF Calls on Kuwait to Release Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years,…
Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise of Network Shutdowns
This is the fourth installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the rest of the series here . Iran’s internet has…
Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem
On March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory approval necessary for U.S. sale (and thus effectively a ban on…
FCC Chair Carr’s Threats to Punish Broadcasters Are Unconstitutional
EFF joined other digital rights and civil liberties organizations in calling out the unconstitutionality of Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s recent threats…
We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702
We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans’ communications with foreign persons overseas is up…
👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7
Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking…
EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next?
The EU’s so-called Chat Control plan , which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately . The most controversial idea, the…
A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone
EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet . Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers…
Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show: Learn More About EFF, Privacy's Defender, and Watch the Interview
About EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF’s work to protect your rights on the internet is…
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…
Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early
Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now. That’s earlier than previous deadlines , and they proposed the new…
Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law
Another court has ruled that copyright can’t be used to keep our laws behind a paywall. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is…
Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom
This is the third installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the first post here , and the second here . When…
Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York
You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and…
Congress Is Dropping the Ball with a Clean Extension of FISA
Two years ago, Congress passed the “Reforming Intelligence and Securing America” Act (RISAA) that included nominal reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
Double Shot of Privacy's Defender in D.C.
You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and…
UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal
The UK is moving forward with its efforts to ban social media for young people. Ahead of this week’s House of Lords debate on the topic, we’re getting you situated with a primer…
US Tech Companies Must be Accountable in US Courts for Facilitating Persecution and Torture Abroad, EFF Urges US Supreme Court
Cisco Systems Case Has Major Implications for Global Human Rights SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. technology companies should be legally accountable in U.S. courts for building tools that…
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…
EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors' Care SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…
Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers
If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college…
Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director
Ozer, With Decades of Experience in Technology and Civil Liberties Law, Will Succeed Cindy Cohn as Organization’s Leader SAN FRANCISCO – Nicole Ozer has been appointed as…
EFF Launches New Fight to Free the Law
EFF has filed a new lawsuit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ensure that the public has full access to the laws that govern us. Our client…
EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. The…
Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime
As long as people have had more than one purchasing option, they’ve been comparing those options and looking for bargains. Online shoppers are no exception; in fact, one of the…
Digital Hopes, Real Power: Reflecting on the Legacy of the Arab Spring
This is the first installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. A new generation of protesters, raised on social media and often…
The Foilies 2026
Recognizing the Worst in Government Transparency The Foilies were written by EFF's Beryl Lipton, Dave Maass and Aaron Mackey and MuckRock's Dillon Bergin, Kelly Kauffman and Anna…
Google and Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities
In late 2024, we urged Google and Amazon to honor their human rights commitments, to be more transparent with the public, and to take meaningful action to address the risks posed…
👓 Who's Really Watching What Smartglasses See? | EFFector 38.6
After years of tech industry experiments, smartglasses with embedded cameras and microphones have finally gone mainstream. And, disturbingly, sometimes it's not just their owners…
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…
A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host—and Why It Failed
Copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity. Too often, it’s used to extract payouts from others. Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters…
Tech Nonprofits to Feds: Don’t Weaponize Procurement to Undermine AI Trust and Safety
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…
Speaking Freely: Jacob Mchangama
Interviewer: Jillian York Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, human-rights advocate, and public commentator. He is the founder and director of Justitia, a Copenhagen-based think…
Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation
This is the second installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the first post here . From Russia —where wartime…
Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2
This is the second post in a series on 3D print blocking, for the first entry check out: Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1 Legislators across the U.S.…
EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show! Tonight Monday, March 30
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and PT, speaking with host Jon Stewart. Cindy will discuss her long history of…
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months.…
Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1
This is the first post in a series on 3D print blocking, for the next entry check out Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2 When legislators give companies an…
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434 , a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the…
Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here
A new report from 404 Media sheds light on how automated license plate readers (ALPRs) could be used beyond the press releases and glossy marketing materials put out by law…
Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy’s Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow
While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist,…
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…