The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a...

Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like KOSA? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to debate multiple bills that will lead to peoples’ private messages being scanned and reported to the government. We oppose these bills, and we have sent a letter urging the Committee to vote No. Take ActionProtect Our Privacy—Stop "EARN IT"On Thursday,...

Only people can get patents. There’s a good reason for that, which is that the patent grant—a temporary monopoly granted by the government—is supposed to be given out only to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” Just like monkeys can’t get a copyright on a photo,...

Today, EFF and ACLU filed a brief in support of Twitter’s effort to get an appeals court to reconsider its dangerous opinion enforcing a government gag order on Twitter’s 2013 transparency report.In this long-running and important case, Twitter tried to publish a report bringing much-needed transparency to...

Maine State Senator Pinny Beebe-Center has introduced LD 1290 , or An Act to End the Maine Information and Analysis Center Program, a bill that would defund the Maine Information and Analysis Center (MIAC), also known as Maine’s only fusion center. EFF once again pleased to support this bill...

نعلن اليوم عن تواجد مؤسسة الجبهة الإلكترونية على الشبكة المظلمة .onion لاثنين من المشاريع التابعة للمؤسسة: Certbot ، وهي أداة طورتها المؤسسة للحصول تلقائيًا على شهادات بروتوكول التشفير ( TLS) وتجديدها للمواقع الالكترونية، والدفاع عن النفس ضد الرقابة ، التي توفر الموارد والإرشادات للأفراد والمنظمات لحماية أنفسهم/ن من المراقبة والتهديدات...