Press Releases: March 2026

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US Tech Companies Must be Accountable in US Courts for Facilitating Persecution and Torture Abroad, EFF Urges US Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. technology companies should be legally accountable in U.S. courts for building tools that purposefully and actively facilitate human rights abuses by foreign governments, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued in a brief filed Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief filed in...

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Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director

Nicole Ozer, a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Ozer will succeed Cindy Cohn, who has been with EFF for more than 25 years and served as its executive director since 2015.