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Deeplinks Blog by Lena Cohen, Hudson Hongo | March 5, 2026

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.

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...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | March 3, 2026

EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices.

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | March 3, 2026

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People

The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over what the government could and could not use Anthropic’s technology to do. Anthropic had made it...

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...

Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain | February 26, 2026

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs,...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | February 25, 2026

☺️ Trust Us With Your Face | EFFector 38.4

Being required to present your ID to access content online is becoming a growing reality for many. We're explaining the dangers of age verification laws, and the latest in the fight for privacy and free speech online, with our EFFector newsletter.

Deeplinks Blog by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews | February 25, 2026

How to Pick Your Password Manager

Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There are free options, and even ones built into your operating system or browser. We can help...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | February 24, 2026

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be...

Deeplinks Blog by Samantha Baldwin, Alexis Hancock | February 19, 2026

EFF’s Policy on LLM-Assisted Contributions to Our Open-Source Projects

We recently introduced a policy governing large language model (LLM) assisted contributions to EFF's open-source projects. At EFF, we strive to produce high quality software tools, rather than simply generating more lines of code in less time. We now explicitly require that contributors understand the code they submit to...

Deeplinks Blog by Rindala Alajaji | February 17, 2026

EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea

Update, February 25, 2026: In response to widespread pushback, Wisconsin lawmakers have removed the provision banning VPN services from S.B. 130 / A.B. 105. The bill now awaits Governor Tony Evers’ signature. While the removal of the VPN provision is a positive step, EFF continues to oppose the bill. Advocates...

Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Pinsof | February 17, 2026

San Jose Can Protect Immigrants by Ending Flock Surveillance System

As ICE and other federal agencies continue their assault on civil liberties, local leaders are stepping up to protect their communities. This includes pushing back against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, which are tools of mass surveillance that can be weaponized against immigrants, political dissidents and other targets.

Deeplinks Blog by Mario Trujillo | February 13, 2026

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Deeplinks Blog by Rindala Alajaji, Samantha Baldwin | February 12, 2026

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. We’ve written extensively about why age verification mandates are a censorship and surveillance nightmare. Discord’s shift only reinforces those concerns.

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | February 11, 2026

🗣 Homeland Security Wants Names | EFFector 38.3

Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been demanding that tech companies hand over users' names, locations, and more. We're explaining how companies can stand up for users—and...

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

Speaking Freely: Shin Yang

EFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People

EFF to Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

☺️ Trust Us With Your Face | EFFector 38.4

How to Pick Your Password Manager

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

EFF’s Policy on LLM-Assisted Contributions to Our Open-Source Projects

EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea

San Jose Can Protect Immigrants by Ending Flock Surveillance System

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

🗣 Homeland Security Wants Names | EFFector 38.3

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