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Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | April 13, 2026

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. Elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance towers get mistaken for cell-phone towers. And that traffic barrel? It's actually a camera. That piece of...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | April 13, 2026

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 she exposed how governments weaponized propaganda and disinformation during the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. She currently serves as the Digital...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | April 13, 2026

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 not control. Since the escalation of conflict between the United States, Israel, Iran, and related spillover attacks in the Gulf,...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | April 10, 2026

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed. Now, we’re drawing a...

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | April 9, 2026

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 post-quantum migration deadline because of two new papers that comprise a big jump in the state of the technology. It’s ahead of schedule...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Tori Noble | April 9, 2026

Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime

The Ninth Circuit should follow Van Buren’s lead and interpret the CFAA narrowly, as Congress intended.

Deeplinks Blog by Kenyatta Thomas | April 9, 2026

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.

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | April 8, 2026

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 sale of new devices), to include all new routers produced in foreign countries unless they are specifically...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | April 8, 2026

Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties who claim copyright in them. The court...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | April 8, 2026

👁 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 protestors, and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving into this troubling pattern and sharing all the latest in the fight for...

Deeplinks Blog by Sarah Hamid | April 8, 2026

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments...

Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon | April 7, 2026

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 forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, was given up by EU member states. And now, another win for privacy: the EU Parliament has...

Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Jue, Melissa Srago | April 3, 2026

Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York

Join EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn at three events in NYC to talk digital rights and her new book: Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | April 3, 2026

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.Update: On April 15, 2026 the FAA rescinded the TFR (FDC 6/4375) and instead issued an advisory (FDC 6/2824), which states: [Drone] operators are advised to avoid flying in proximity to: Department of War (DOW), Department of Energy (Doe),...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | April 3, 2026

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 used for mass surveillance, another agency of the U.S. government is quietly working to ensure that this dispute will never...

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Deeplinks Blog

Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early

Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime

EFF is Leaving X

Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem

Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law

👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next?

Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

Tech Nonprofits to Feds: Don’t Weaponize Procurement to Undermine AI Trust and Safety

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