Ninth Circuit Hands Users A Big Win: Californians Can Sue Out-of-State Corporations That Violate State Privacy Laws
Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification App
This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an overview of the political debate around...
Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws
EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and dozens hundreds (see update below) of prominent cybersecurity and election security experts urged in an open letter. The letter – signed...
Texas’s War on Abortion Is Now a War on Free Speech
UPDATE May 8, 2025: A committee substitute of SB 2880 passed the Texas Senate on April 30, 2025, with the provisions related to interactive computer services and providing information on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug removed. These provisions, however, currently remain in the House version...
Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online
The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors. The administration has initiated this new program, called “Catch and Revoke,” in an effort to revoke visas, and it appears to be a...
EFF at FreedomFest
EFF is excited to be at FreedomFest for the first time in Palm Springs, CA! If you're attending the event, be sure to stop by EFF's table in the exhibitor area where we'll be spreading the word about our efforts to protect digital privacy and free expression online. Of...
IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust
Leaders Must Do All They Can to Bring Alaa Home
It has now been nearly two months since UK Prime Minister Starmer spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, yet there has been no tangible progress in the case of Alaa Abd El Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer, activist, and technologist who remains imprisoned in Egypt.In yet another blow...
Six Years of Dangerous Misconceptions Targeting Ola Bini and Digital Rights in Ecuador
Ola Bini was first detained in Quito’s airport six years ago, called a “Russian hacker,” and accused of “alleged participation in the crime of assault on the integrity of computer systems.” It wouldn't take long for Ecuadorean authorities to find out that he was Swedish and an ...
