Meta is Removing Abortion Advocates' Accounts Without Warning
This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When the team at Women Help Women signed into Instagram last winter, they were met with a distressing surprise: without warning, Meta had...
Governor Newsom Should Make it Easier to Exercise Our Privacy Rights
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...
EFF Statement on TikTok Ownership Deal
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...
That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car
Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enforcement to follow you. "The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying LPR cameras as well,” Rahul Sidhu, Vice President of Aviation at Flock Safety, recently...
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...
Shining a Spotlight on Digital Rights Heroes: EFF Awards 2025
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...








