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Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

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FEATURED UPDATE

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.
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Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance

OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its restrictions against using its AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. After protests from both users and employees who did not sign up to support government mass surveillance — early reports show that ChaptGPT uninstalls rose nearly 300% after the company announced the deal — Sam Altman, CEO of...
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Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Who Have Received EFF Awards 

Women in tech deserve more and brighter spotlights. At EFF, we’ve had the honor of celebrating some of our heroes at our annual EFF Awards, including many women who are leading the digital rights community. In this blog, we recognize Carolina Botero (EFF Award Winner, 2024), Chelsea Manning (EFF Award Winner, 2017), and Annie Game (EFF Award Winner, 2017).

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Issues

Reproductive Justice

Reproductive justice and safe access to abortion, like so many other aspects of managing our healthcare, is fundamentally tied to our digital lives. With the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to overturn the protections that Roe v. Wade offered for people seeking abortion healthcare, what was benign...

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Privacy's Defender

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's Internet

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Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | March 4, 2026

Speaking Freely: Shin Yang

Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an independent, self-hosted community for sexual minorities in Taiwan. It is built on open-source software and she is developing privacy-first...
Innovation
Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | March 2, 2026

EFF to Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal

Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under the server test, whomever...

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