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There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. DEFEND IP Act, and all of these
First reported Oct 02, 2026 18:59 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article. Americans’ First Amendment right to equal access to official government statements is violated by the Trump administration’s use of Truth Social’s preferential treatment scheme, which blocks people who won’t pay Trump’s company up to $100,000 a month for early access to government news, EFF told a federal court.The First Amendment guara
First reported Sep 25, 2026 21:04 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. That’s why we were happy to see that a court has blocked Utah’s attempt to outlaw the privacy protections of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73
First reported Oct 01, 2026 19:57 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
A California law that prohibits teens from receiving recommended social media content from other social media users violates their First Amendment rights, EFF argued this week. The case, Meta v. Bonta, challenges SB 976, which requires that teen social media users get their parents’ permission before seeing other users’ recommended speech on their social media feeds. The legal challenge to SB 976
First reported Sep 17, 2026 19:43 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—m
First reported Sep 01, 2026 20:51 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're talking about the privacy complications of AI phone features. JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 years, EFFector has been your guide to understanding the intersection of technology, civil liberti
First reported Sep 30, 2026 16:45 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems by default without even thinking about potential alternatives. It’s time to rethink that relationship. Last year, we created Opt Out October to help remind ourselves of the variety of ways we can take
First reported Oct 01, 2026 19:27 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order is an opportunity for a needed, thoughtful conversation about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Everyday Californians are feeling real anxiety about the risks of artificial intelligence, and as an organization that works to ensure technology empowers people, EFF welcomes this order as a way for the state of California to lead a much-nee
First reported Sep 18, 2026 23:25 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Mass surveillance isn't a joke. But police are treating it like one when using automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering a new EFF report on how officers across the country are routinely logging completely nonsensical "reasons" for their Flock searches, including "LOL," "LMAO," and even (yuck) "Sexy." JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 years, EF
First reported Sep 16, 2026 16:23 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk doing it is often able to use legal and accessible means to do so. The odds are stacked against everyday internet folk when there's little to no comprehensive data privacy legislation keeping us safe.
First reported Aug 31, 2026 18:52 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
San Francisco's decision to retain its use of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) surveillance cameras belies what we know about this spying technology tool: it endangers residents and threatens the privacy and civil liberties of our community. Based on what's in the city's press release and announcement, this policy will do nothing to stop actual harms. We know innocent drivers will be stopped
First reported Sep 29, 2026 21:30 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
EFF, Access Now, and Data Privacy Brasil are putting forward recommendations to strengthen robust privacy and data protection safeguards in the context of Brazil's elections. The recommendations stress the close relationship between violations of personal data protection and challenges to the integrity of electoral processes. They underscore how privacy and data protection guarantees are a crucial
First reported Aug 28, 2026 03:46 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Courts have for two decades found that linking and embedding someone else’s web content, be it a photo, music, or an article, doesn’t violate copyright law–the entity that controls the server that hosts a copyrighted work, not the user or website that merely directs others to it, is directly liable if the content turns out to be infringing. News publisher Emmerich Newspapers sought to convince the
First reported Sep 16, 2026 16:50 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of records obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through this litigation, including contracts
First reported Sep 08, 2026 19:19 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), H.R. 10364, a bill that would give copyright owners a new legal tool to block Americans’ access to foreign websites accused of copyright infringement. The basic idea is all too familiar, an
First reported Oct 02, 2026 17:41 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Doxxing, also known as the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or endanger someone, is a tricky thing to protect against. It often happens by some ill-intentioned person accessing publicly available information, then sharing that information more widely in the hopes it will intimidate their target or worse. This guide is a followup from a previous post that describes a methodology
First reported Aug 31, 2026 19:02 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into a new source of copyright liability. The case involves Section 1202 of the DMCA, which prohibits intentionally removing copyright management information (CMI) like an author’s name or a copyr
First reported Sep 16, 2026 22:47 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is "I don't know," it turns out you're 100% correct. The officer left the letters "idk" in the search field where cops are supposed to document the reason for the search. When law enforcement and tech salespeo
First reported Sep 14, 2026 15:21 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
If you are an Android user, you may have noticed it already: Google has begun allowing rival, third-party app stores to be distributed through the Google Play Store. And if you are a developer, you may have noticed new options for billing and distributing your apps. For years, Epic Games, maker of games such as Fortnite, has been suing Google, alleging violations of antitrust law. Specifically at
First reported Oct 01, 2026 21:25 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to our TikTok or Instagram to watch! EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us through our LGBT Q&A. You asked us: What’s one thing I can do today to improve my safety and security online as an LGBTQ+ person? And for this question, we’ve brought in our friends from the Trevor Project to an
First reported Aug 31, 2026 15:57 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under threat from courts and legislatures under the guise of protecting young people online—presenting a significant hindrance to youth organizing. In a major recent example, Meta settled in a lawsuit with 5
First reported Sep 16, 2026 16:04 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more than the often derided voice assistant you might be used to. It has even evolved from a blob you invoke with a verbal command or a button press to a whole app. This update comes with a slew of privacy c
First reported Sep 18, 2026 21:55 UTCCatalog metadata updated Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTCOpen evidence record
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