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...
Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights
ICE 🤝 Cyber Mercenaries | EFFector 37.12
It's easy to keep up with the fight for digital privacy and free expression. Our EFFector newsletter delivers bite-sized updates, stories, and actions you can take to stay informed and help out.In this latest issue, we show how libraries and schools can safeguard their computers with Privacy Badger;...
When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of “Content Jail”
This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of stories from people and organizations...
Mexican Allies Raise Alarms About New Mass Surveillance Laws, Call for International Support
The Mexican government passed a package of outrageously privacy-invasive laws in July that gives both civil and military law enforcement forces access to troves of personal data and forces every individual to turn over biometric information regardless of any suspicion of crime. The laws create a new interconnected...
California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign S.B. 524
Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis
This is the first installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the...
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the...
San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ
San Francisco billionaire Chris Larsen once again has wielded his wallet to keep city residents under the eye of all-seeing police surveillance. The San Francisco Police Commission, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie have signed off on Larsen’s $9.4 million gift of a new...
