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Barry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF’s president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Vermont and…
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No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in the U.S. Last fall…
In Baxter County, Ark., a sheriff cut off phone access at the jail. The Trump administration paid attention, and the decision could have nationwide implications.
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Today, EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state’s constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by law enforcement in four…
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EFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of the Transportation Security…
US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university…
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No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other defenders of free speech are fighting back. In…
A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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In an extremely disappointing ruling, a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose, our case challenging the city of San Jose’s warrantless searches of its vast stores of automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. EFF and the ACLU…
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When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and security. This…
On September 28, 2026, Access Now wrote to four pension funds regarding their investment in AE Industrial Partners (AEI). AEI purchased spyware technology vendor Paragon Solutions in 2024 and merged the company with its holding company…
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In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency…
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EFF was thrilled to join organizers, advocates, and activists in the East Bay for the second annual Oakland Tech Week last week. We are grateful to our friends at MediaJustice and Upturn for inviting us co-present this all-day event…
Let’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.
Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s co-defendant confessed to coercing her into their crime. Will that be enough to stop her execution?
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EFF strongly condemns Turkey’s state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the…
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This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recent COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF. Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children…
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Today is DAF Day! This event highlights the millions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) people have set up to make charitable donations and change the world. If you have a DAF, consider supporting EFF today. Decisions about your privacy…
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Exclusive: UK foreign secretary boasted about “mounting a world wide lobbying exercise” against landmark motion. The post Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN appeared first on Declassified UK.
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. US non-profits whose founding leaders or organisations have been associated with India’s controversial Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)…
Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?
Notorious and ultra-Zionist Israel lobby group, the so-called ‘Jewish Labour Movement’ (JLM), has threatened the Green Party with an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over its landmark motion declaring that…
After saying, on his accession to power, that he would scrap Keir Starmer’s rightly-hated digital ID scheme, Andy Burnham’s government has U-turned and doubled down. Ministers are considering making UK citizens produce passport ID or a…
Nine of the most ardent Israel lobbyists among Labour’s MPs have written to Sussex Police demanding a hate-crime investigation against the Green Party. The party’s supposed ‘crime’ is to have passed a conference motion declaring…
