Nominations Open for the 2022 EFF Awards
Update 08/02/2022 @ 2:00 PM Pacific: Nominations for 2022 are now closed.
EFF and Partners Urge the Indian Government to Keep End-to-End Encryption Alive
In a letter to the Indian Government, EFF and partner digital rights organizations from around the world called on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to withdraw the so-called traceability requirement under its Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (2021 IT Rules). The Rules compel private end-to-end...
Ring Reveals They Give Videos to Police Without User Consent or a Warrant
EFF and ACLU File Amicus Brief Objecting to Warrantless, Suspicionless Electronic Device Searches at the Border
In the past couple of decades, EFF has argued that when it comes to suspicionless and warrantless searches at the border, electronic devices like cell phones are not the same as a piece of luggage. Although certain searches at the border are permitted without a warrant, the search of a...
Impact Litigation in Action: Building the Caselaw Behind a Win for Free Speech
A recent District Court decision in In re DMCA 512(h) Subpoena to Twitter, Inc. is a great win for free speech. The Court firmly rejected the argument that copyright law creates a shortcut around the First Amendment’s protections for anonymous critics. In the case, a company tried to...
The Department of Defense Should Disclose When it Purchases User Data
Congress must pass the Jacobs-Davidson Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the yearly funding bill for national security and the military. It would require the Department of Defense to disclose, both to Congress and the public, information about when it purchases geolocation data collected by cell phones...
Congress Probes How Location Data Brokers Threaten Reproductive Privacy
Data brokers harvest location information from our phone apps, then sell access to the highest bidder, including government. This is a way sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states may try to identify and punish people seeking and providing abortion.Some good news: three members of Congress are investigating this...
Victory! Another Court Protects the Right to Record Police
When people fear that the police are about to break the law, they pull out their phones and hit “record.” Doing so promotes police accountability and public discussion of important issues. So, it is great news that yet another federal appellate court has ruled that people have a First Amendment...
DSA/DMA Adoption: Our Analysis
The DSA and the DMA have important tools to make the internet a fairer place, but there are implementation challenges ahead
State by State, We’re Making Progress Against Anti-Speech Lawsuits
The First Amendment grants us all the right to say our piece. The government can’t shut down our rights to speak out, protest, and publish. At EFF, we’ve been making sure that we have strong First Amendment rights in the online world for more than 30 years. Government repression isn’t...
