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Deeplinks Blog by Cliff Braun, Rory Mir | April 13, 2026

The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer, but it will hurt innovation in the state and risks a slew of new consumer harms ranging from surveillance...

Event | April 14, 2026

The Bay Agenda: Security for Journalists

KALW (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Senior Staff Technologist William Budington will be speaking.From the Organizers: KALW examines how journalists can protect themselves, their sources and their devices in the current climate, with AHCJ and SPJ NorCalThe Bay Area chapter...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | April 13, 2026

EFF 🤝 HOPE: Join Us This August!

Protecting privacy and free speech online takes more than policy work—it takes community. Conferences like HOPE are where that community comes together to learn, connect, and push these ideals forward. That's why EFF is proud to be at HOPE 26.Join us at this year's Hackers On Planet Earth, August...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass | April 13, 2026

Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border

When people see Customs & Border Protection's giant, tethered surveillance blimp flying 20 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, lots of them confuse it with an art installation. Elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance towers get mistaken for cell-phone towers. And that traffic barrel? It's actually a camera. That piece of...

Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | April 13, 2026

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Jean earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, where she exposed how governments weaponized propaganda and disinformation during the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. She currently serves as the Digital...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | April 13, 2026

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered. When governments invoke “misinformation” during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech they do not control. Since the escalation of conflict between the United States, Israel, Iran, and related spillover attacks in the Gulf,...

Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | April 10, 2026

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed. Now, we’re drawing a...

Deeplinks Blog by Erica Portnoy | April 9, 2026

Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early

Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now. That’s earlier than previous deadlines, and they proposed the new post-quantum migration deadline because of two new papers that comprise a big jump in the state of the technology. It’s ahead of schedule...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Tori Noble | April 9, 2026

Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime

The Ninth Circuit should follow Van Buren’s lead and interpret the CFAA narrowly, as Congress intended.

Deeplinks Blog by Kenyatta Thomas | April 9, 2026

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | April 8, 2026

Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem

On March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory approval necessary for U.S. sale (and thus effectively a ban on sale of new devices), to include all new routers produced in foreign countries unless they are specifically...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | April 8, 2026

Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that it is fair use to copy and disseminate building codes that have been incorporated into federal and state law, even though those codes are developed by private parties who claim copyright in them. The court...

Deeplinks Blog by Christian Romero | April 8, 2026

👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7

Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking protestors, and more. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're diving into this troubling pattern and sharing all the latest in the fight for...

Deeplinks Blog by Sarah Hamid | April 8, 2026

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

When people remember the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they picture crowded squares, raised phones, and the feeling that the internet had finally shifted the balance of power toward ordinary people. But the past decade and a half is also a story about how governments...

Event | April 9, 2026

Privacy Index Workshop

lumka (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York will be speaking.From the Organizers: The discussion will feature Ruby Chen, Ana Luisa Cubas (Sound Surveillance Archive Researcher), Jillian C. York (Director for International Freedom...

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The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

The Bay Agenda: Security for Journalists

EFF 🤝 HOPE: Join Us This August!

Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early

Comparison Shopping Is Not a (Computer) Crime

EFF is Leaving X

Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem

Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law

👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

Privacy Index Workshop

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