Criminalizing Masks at Protests is Wrong
There has been a crescendo of states attempting to criminalize the wearing of face coverings while attending protests. Now the President has demanded, in the context of ongoing protests in Los Angeles: “ARREST THE PEOPLE IN FACE MASKS, NOW!” But the truth is: whether you are afraid...
Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit
Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City's Flock ALPR Contract
Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer be able to use the surveillance network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city.Two years...
EFF to Department Homeland Security: No Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
EFF submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subcomponent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), urging them to abandon a proposal to collect social media identifiers on forms for immigration benefits. This collection would mark yet a further expansion of the government’s efforts to...
EFF to Court: Young People Have First Amendment Rights
Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in...
EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers
As part of multi-pronged effort towards deregulation, the Federal Trade Commission has asked the public to identify any and all “anti-competitive” regulations. Working with our friends at Authors Alliance, EFF answered, calling attention to a set of anti-competitive regulations that many don’t recognize as such: the triennial exemptions to...
The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information
The Trump administration has been heavily invested in consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, or perhaps AI-queryable, super database. The compiling of all of this information is being done with the dubious justification of efficiency and modernization–however, in many cases, this information was originally siloed for...
Judges Stand With Law Firms (and EFF) Against Trump’s Executive Orders
“Pernicious.” “Unprecedented... cringe-worthy.”“Egregious.”“Shocking.” These are just some of the words that federal judges used in recent weeks to describe President Trump’s politically motivated and vindictive executive orders targeting law firms that have employed people...
Statement on California State Senate Advancing Dangerous Surveillance Bill
In the wake of the California State Senate’s passage of S.B. 690, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), TechEquity, Consumer Federation of California, Tech Oversight California, ACLU California Action, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the California Low Income Consumers Coalition issued a joint statement warning...
