Alaa Abd El Fattah's Mother, Laila Soueif, Calls on UK Government to Help as She Continues Hunger Strike
Update 2/25/2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer finally met with Laila Soueif in February after months of requests for a sit-down to discuss getting his assistance to release Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Starmer pledged to do "all that I can" to secure the release of Alaa, saying in a statement: "We...
First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech
Update: The Department of Justice released additional documents in this case in April. You can read them here. The entire set of documents released in this FOIA case can be read here.As President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order in 2020 to retaliate against online services that fact-checked...
Google is on the Wrong Side of History
Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would...
Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE
Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations, including highly publicized raids. As immigrant communities, families, allies, and activists think about what can be done to shift policy and protect people, one thing is certain: similar to filming the police as...
When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t
For years now, there has been some concern about the coziness between technology companies and the government. Whether a company complies with casual government requests for data, requires a warrant, or even fights overly-broad warrants has been a canary in the digital coal mine during an era where companies...
EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions
NEW YORK—EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency”...
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years, concerns have also grown about the use of digital tools to alter or create...
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
Building a Community Privacy Plan
Privacy Loves Company
Most of the internet’s blessings—the opportunities for communities to connect despite physical borders and oppressive controls, the avenues to hold the powerful accountable without immediate censorship, the sharing of our hopes and frustrations with loved ones and strangers alike—tend to come at a price. Governments, corporations, and bad actors too...
