Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration...
EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. These violations must stop now.
Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use
Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it...
Copyright Kills Competition
Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over creators and competitors. Today’s copyright policy concentrates power among a handful of corporate gatekeepers—at everyone else’s expense. We need a system...
Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.
Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship
Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to how U.S. copyright’s broken statutory damages regime actually works. Massive, unpredictable damages awards for...
💾 The Worst Data Breaches of 2025—And What You Can Do | EFFector 38.1
So many data breaches happen throughout the year that it can be pretty easy to gloss over not just if, but how many different breaches compromised your data. We're diving into these data breaches and more with our latest EFFector newsletter.Since 1990, EFFector has been your guide to...
EFF Joins Internet Advocates Calling on the Iranian Government to Restore Full Internet Connectivity
EFF has joined architects, operators, and stewards of the global internet infrastructure in calling upon authorities in Iran to immediately restore full and unfiltered internet access. We further call upon the international technical community to remain vigilant in monitoring connectivity and to support efforts that ensure the internet remains open...
EFF's 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night
This event brings lawyers from law firms and companies together in the ultimate battle of mastery over privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law. EFF’s crack team of legal experts will challenge participants to delve into their knowledge of obscure tech law minutiae–all in the pursuit of this year's coveted...
