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Governor Newsom Should Make it Easier to Exercise Our Privacy Rights

California has one of the nation’s most comprehensive consumer data privacy laws. But it’s not always easy for people to exercise those privacy rights. That’s why we supported Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s A.B. 566 throughout the legislative session and are now asking California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign it into law.
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Safeguarding Human Rights Must Be Integral to the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s Approach to Tech-Enabled Crimes

This is Part I of a two-part series on EFF’s comments to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) about its draft policy on cyber-enabled crimes.As human rights atrocities around the world unfold in the digital age, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity are as heinous and...

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Going Viral vs. Going Dark: Why Extremism Trends and Abortion Content Gets Censored

This is the fourth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. One of the goals of our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign was to put names, stories, and numbers to the experiences we’d been hearing...

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Companies Must Provide Accurate and Transparent Information to Users When Posts are Removed

This is the third installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. Imagine sharing information about reproductive health care on social media and receiving a message...

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Shining a Spotlight on Digital Rights Heroes: EFF Awards 2025

It's been a year full of challenges, but also important victories for digital freedoms. From EFF’s new lawsuit against OPM and DOGE, to launching Rayhunter (our new tool to detect cellular spying), to exposing the censorship of abortion-related content on social media, we’ve been busy! But we’re...
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EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and Anti-Abortion States

The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law, which has put every driver...

Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone’s contents. In United States v. Hunt, the court made clear that no longer having...

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