EFFecting Change: Pride in Digital Freedom
This event has passed. You can watch the recording on YouTube or the Internet Archive.This Pride season, our panel explores how emerging laws and platform policies affect the digital privacy and free expression rights of the LGBT+ community, and how this echoes...
Security Theater REALized and Flying without REAL ID
Standing Up for LGBTQ+ Digital Safety this International Day Against Homophobia
Lawmakers and regulators around the world have been prolific with passing legislation restricting freedom of expression and privacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and fueling offline intolerance. Online platforms are also complicit in this pervasive ecosystem by censoring pro-LGBTQ+ speech, forcing LGBTQ+ individuals to...
House Moves Forward With Dangerous Proposal Targeting Nonprofits
This week, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee moved forward with a proposal that would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to strip any U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status by unilaterally determining the organization is a “Terrorist Supporting Organization.” This proposal, which places nearly unlimited discretion in the...
The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use
Within the next decade, generative AI could join computers and electricity as one of the most transformational technologies in history, with all of the promise and peril that implies. Governments’ responses to GenAI—including new legal precedents—need to thoughtfully address real-world harms without destroying the public benefits GenAI can offer....
In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made...
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
EFF to California Lawmakers: There’s a Better Way to Help Young People Online
We’ve covered a lot of federal and state proposals that badly miss the mark when attempting to grapple with protecting young people’s safety online. These include bills that threaten to cut young people off from vital information, infringe on their First Amendment rights to speak for...
Keeping People Safe Online – Fundamental Rights Protective Alternatives to Age Checks
This is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two takes...
Stopping States From Passing AI Laws for the Next Decade Is a Terrible Idea
This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee moved forward with a proposal in its budget reconciliation bill to impose a ten-year preemption of state AI regulation—essentially saying only Congress, not state legislatures, can place safeguards on AI for the next decade.We strongly oppose this. We’ve talked before about...
