EFF Statement on Nevada's Attack on End-to-End Encryption
EFF learned last week that the state of Nevada is seeking an emergency order prohibiting Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger for all users in the state under the age of 18. The motion for a temporary restraining order is part of a lawsuit...
EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reinstate X’s Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional California Content Moderation Law
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to reinstate X’s lawsuit challenging a California law that forces social media companies to file reports to the state about their content moderation decisions, and with respect to five controversial issues in particular—an unconstitutional intrusion into platforms’ right to...
EFF Opposes California Initiative That Would Cause Mass Censorship
In recent years, lots of proposed laws purport to reduce “harmful” content on the internet, especially for kids. Some have good intentions. But the fact is, we can’t censor our way to a healthier internet.When it comes to online (or offline) content, people simply don’t agree about what’s harmful. And...
As India Prepares for Elections, Government Silences Critics on X with Executive Order
It is troubling to see that the Indian government has issued new demands to X (formerly Twitter) to remove accounts and posts critical of the government and its recent actions. This is especially bears watching as India is preparing for general elections this spring, and concerns for the...
Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution of a Journalist?
Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and...
NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702
Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute's Report on Electronic Monitoring
Defending Access to the Decentralized Web
Decentralized web technologies have the potential to make the internet more robust and efficient, supporting a new wave of innovation. However, the fundamental technologies and services that make it work are already being hit with overreaching legal threats.Exhibit A: the Interplanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS operates via a “distributed hash...
Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act
Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust
Don’t believe the hype.The undeniable fact is that the FTC has racked up a long list of victories over corporate abuses, like busting a nationwide, decades-long fraud that tricked people into paying for “free” tax preparation.The wheels of justice grind slowly, so many of the actions the FTC...