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Press Release | January 29, 2026

EFF Calls on Tech Companies to 'Encrypt It Already!'

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched "Encrypt It Already," a campaign pushing six tech companies to better protect their users’ privacy through end-to-end encryption.The privacy-defending nonprofit recently contacted Meta, Apple, Google, Bluesky, Telegram, and Ring, imploring them to implement long-requested encryption features to secure their...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | January 29, 2026

EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown

On January 30, EFF will be closed as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE, CBP, and the brutality and terror they and other federal agencies continue to inflict on immigrant communities and any who stand with them.

Deeplinks Blog by Thorin Klosowski | January 29, 2026

Introducing Encrypt It Already

Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a campaign...

Deeplinks Blog by Lena Cohen | January 29, 2026

Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their RTB system is a step in the right direction towards giving people more control over their data. Truly curbing the harms of...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | January 28, 2026

✍️ The Bill to Hand Parenting to Big Tech | EFFector 38.2

Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental health. But according to Congress, Big Tech is somehow both the problem and the solution. We're diving into the latest attempt to control how kids access the internet and more with our latest EFFector newsletter.

Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo, Christoph Schmon | January 27, 2026

DSA Human Rights Alliance Publishes Principles Calling for DSA Enforcement to Incorporate Global Perspectives

The Digital Services Act (DSA) Human Rights Alliance has, since its founding by EFF and Access Now in 2021, worked to ensure that the European Union follows a human rights-based approach to platform governance by integrating a wide range of voices and perspectives to contextualise DSA enforcement and examining the...

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | January 27, 2026

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration...

Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | January 26, 2026

EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence

In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. These violations must stop now.

Event | January 28, 2026

EFF at Privacy Week 2026 Belgrade: No More Business As Usual

Partners Serbia (not EFF) will host this event. EFF's Christoph Schmon will be speaking.From the Organizers:Partners Serbia is a organizing the fourth annual Privacy Week conference to mark the International Day of Personal Data Protection. The event centers around discussions on privacy and data protection issues with...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | January 23, 2026

Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use

Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Rory Mir | January 22, 2026

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it...

Deeplinks Blog by Tori Noble | January 21, 2026

Copyright Kills Competition

Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over creators and competitors. Today’s copyright policy concentrates power among a handful of corporate gatekeepers—at everyone else’s expense. We need a system...

Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | January 21, 2026

Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly

There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | January 20, 2026

Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship

Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to how U.S. copyright’s broken statutory damages regime actually works. Massive, unpredictable damages awards for...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | January 20, 2026

💾 The Worst Data Breaches of 2025—And What You Can Do | EFFector 38.1

So many data breaches happen throughout the year that it can be pretty easy to gloss over not just if, but how many different breaches compromised your data. We're diving into these data breaches and more with our latest EFFector newsletter.Since 1990, EFFector has been your guide to...

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EFF Calls on Tech Companies to 'Encrypt It Already!'

EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown

Introducing Encrypt It Already

Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

✍️ The Bill to Hand Parenting to Big Tech | EFFector 38.2

DSA Human Rights Alliance Publishes Principles Calling for DSA Enforcement to Incorporate Global Perspectives

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence

EFF at Privacy Week 2026 Belgrade: No More Business As Usual

Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

Copyright Kills Competition

Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly

Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship

💾 The Worst Data Breaches of 2025—And What You Can Do | EFFector 38.1

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