2025 nominations have closed. Be sure to join us at the EFF Awards this year, more info can be found here: www.eff.org/EFFAwardsNominations are now open for the 2025 EFF Awards! The nomination window will be open until Friday, May 23rd at 2:00...

The right to repair just keeps on winning. Last week, thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong consumer electronics right-to-repair legislation through both the House and Senate. The bill affirms our right to repair by banning restrictions that keep people and local businesses...

This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an overview of the political debate around...

UPDATE May 8, 2025: A committee substitute of SB 2880 passed the Texas Senate on April 30, 2025, with the provisions related to interactive computer services and providing information on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug removed. These provisions, however, currently remain in the House version...

Hace seis años, las autoridades ecuatorianas detuvieron por primera vez a Ola Bini en el aeropuerto de Quito, lo etiquetaron como "hacker ruso" y lo acusaron de “presunta participación en el delito de ataque a la integridad de sistemas informáticos”. Pronto descubrieron que era sueco, un desarrollador de...

En los últimos años hemos visto muchos proyectos de ley tecnológicos perjudiciales, a menudo encubiertos con un lenguaje ambiguo sobre la «seguridad en línea». Pero el proyecto de ley SB 868 de Florida ni siquiera pretende ser sutil: el estado quiere una puerta trasera a las plataformas cifradas si...