AMA Alert! We launched https://EFF.org/Age, our Age Verification Resource hub, and want to talk to you about it. We’ll be on Reddit's r/privacy today, on 12/16, and on 12/17 to help you resist this censorship and surveillance nightmare. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/were_eff_and_were_fighting_to_defend_your_privacy/
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
No administration should have the power to decide who gets to express themselves and who doesn’t. https://takebackctrl.org/stay-loud
You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back: https://takebackctrl.org/stop-surveillance
Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn for a virtual conversation with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders about their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy
Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, it's important to protect our right to speak out about the government online and anywhere else. https://takebackctrl.org/stay-loud
Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far
There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security
This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cybercrime-convention-eff-and-global-partners-urge-governments
When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize
Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/civil-disobedience-copyright-keeps-science-going
Passionate about tech and freedom? Join EFF's legal internship program and work on cutting-edge digital freedom issues! https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/interns
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest. https://eff.org/rayhunter.
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia said on an New York University panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
https://nyunews.com/culture/iequity/2025/10/17/detention-and-deportation-conference/
It's our time to say thanks to the EFF members that support our work year-round. Join us for a semi-secret Speakeasy on October 25 in Portland! https://eff.org/speakeasy-portland
The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyzujmnq8uxljl8l5m30p6kf69nnnerpz4tq2urwm62lz7qa34rk4xe4998y writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
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This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
Many of these issues would be mitigated by doing what the competition is already doing: encrypting the broadcasts from its Bluetooth trackers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/tiles-lack-encryption-danger-users-everywhere
Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why. https://ssd.eff.org/module/why-metadata-matters
It’s no secret that AI models—including gen AI—tend to discriminate against racial and gender minorities. When government agencies start using biased AI to make decisions, real people suffer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/president-trumps-war-woke-ai-civil-liberties-nightmare
The 4th Amendment matters in the digital age. Michigan Supreme Court joins a growing consensus: warrants for cell phones must be limited in scope. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/fourth-amendment-victory-michigan-supreme-court-reins-digital-device-fishing-1
“There’s a lack of imagination for the worst case scenario,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Government Technology News. The only way to definitively keep this data from those who aren't supposed to have it is by not collecting and storing it in the first place. https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/d-c-takeover-shows-how-cities-can-lose-control-of-surveillance
“Your driver's license contains a ton of somewhat immutable information about you” like your name, address, DOB, and face, EFF’s Lisa Femia told The Tennessean. It's not like a credit card number that can be replaced if it's leaked. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2025/08/14/age-verification-laws-protecting-kids-or-restricting-speech/85414006007/
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Age verification has arrived in the UK and, to no one’s surprise, users hate it. We cannot accept these censorship regimes as our new norm. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
There's still a lot of work to do to improve Bluetooth tracker detection, but for now, here's how to detect them automatically and search for them manually. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-detect-bluetooth-trackers
Age verification is here, and now UK Redditors can’t access their favorite LGBTQ+, political, or public health communities without destroying their anonymity. Help us fight to avoid this future. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
EFF joins dozens of organizations in expressing grave concern over the unprecedented decision by the United States government to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. https://7amleh.org/post/joint-statement-1-august-en
Put down the razor (and gather your EFF donations). The nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4qsg3uuyk2qehlcamwlsjl4caxrf25h72w4mk0p5ty3vtwg2fnnsz43dcq Beard and Mustache Contest is back this Saturday at 10 am. Clean-shaven people welcome. https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-contests.html#orga_40786
The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name