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Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | March 24, 2025

230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users. Why else would some of the biggest platforms be willing to endorse a bill that guts the law? In fact, repealing Section 230 would only cement the status of Big Tech monopolies.

Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | March 23, 2025

Podcast Episode Rerelease: Dr. Seuss Warned Us

We’re excited to announce that we’re working on a new season of How to Fix the Internet, coming in the next few months! But today we want to lift up an earlier episode that has particular significance, featuring Alvaro Bedoya.

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 21, 2025

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking.

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 21, 2025

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents...

Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | March 20, 2025

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.

Can we get from a world where Google is synonymous with search to a world where other search engines have a real chance to compete? The U.S. and state governments’ bipartisan antitrust suit, challenging the many ways that Google has maintained its search monopoly, offers an opportunity.

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry, Rindala Alajaji | March 20, 2025

State AGs Must Act: EFF Expands Call to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Back in January, EFF called on attorneys general in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri to investigate potential privacy violations and hold accountable crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) that engage in deceptive practices. Since then, some of these centers have begun to change their websites.

Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings, Jillian C. York, Svea Windwehr, Christoph Schmon | March 19, 2025

EFF’s Reflections from RightsCon 2025

EFF was delighted to once again attend RightsCon—this year hosted in Taipei, Taiwan between 24-27 February. As with previous years, RightsCon provided an invaluable opportunity for human rights experts, technologists, activists, and government representatives to discuss pressing human rights challenges and their potential solutions. For some attending from EFF,...

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 17, 2025

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups and...

Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Paige Collings | March 17, 2025

EFF Joins 7amleh Campaign to #ReconnectGaza

In times of conflict, the internet becomes more than just a tool—it is a lifeline, connecting those caught in chaos with the outside world. It carries voices that might otherwise be silenced, bearing witness to suffering and survival. Without internet access, communities become isolated, and the flow of critical information...

Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey, Beryl Lipton, Hannah Diaz | March 16, 2025

The Foilies 2025

Every year during Sunshine Week (March 16-22). the Electronic Frontier Foundation, MuckRock and AAN Publishers team up to publish The Foilies. This annual report—now a decade old—names and shames the most repugnant, absurd, and incompetent responses to public records requests under FOIA and state transparency laws.

Deeplinks Blog by Beryl Lipton, José Martinez | March 15, 2025

“Guardrails” Won’t Protect Nashville Residents From AI-Enabled Camera Networks

Nashville’s Metropolitan Council is one vote away from passing an ordinance that’s being branded as “guardrails” against the privacy problems that come with giving the police a connected camera system like Axon’s Fusus. But Nashville locals are right to be skeptical of just how much protection from mass surveillance products...

Deeplinks Blog by Rory Mir | March 13, 2025

EFF to NSF: AI Action Plan Must Put People First

People have a right to engage with culture and express themselves unburdened by private cartels. Policymakers should focus on narrowly crafted policies to preserve these rights, and keep rulemaking constrained to tested solutions addressing actual harms.

Deeplinks Blog by Allison Morris | March 13, 2025

EFF Thanks Fastly for Donated Tools to Help Keep Our Website Secure

EFF’s most important platform for welcoming everyone to join us in our fight for a better digital future is our website, eff.org. We thank Fastly for their generous in-kind contribution of services helping keep EFF’s website online.Eff.org was first registered in 1990, just three months after the organization...

Deeplinks Blog by Melissa Srago | March 13, 2025

EFFecting Change: Is There Hope for Social Media?

Please join EFF for the next segment of EFFecting Change, our livestream series covering digital privacy and free speech. Join our panel featuring EFF Civil Liberties Director David Greene, EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York, Mastodon's Felix Hlatky, Bluesky's Emily Liu, and Spill's Kenya Parham as they...

Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings | March 13, 2025

EFF Joins AllOut’s Campaign Calling for Meta to Stop Hate Speech Against LGBTQ+ Community

In January, Meta made targeted changes to its hateful conduct policy that would allow dehumanizing statements to be made about certain vulnerable groups. More specifically, Meta’s hateful conduct policy now contains the following text:People sometimes use sex- or gender-exclusive language when discussing access to spaces often limited by sex...

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230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

Podcast Episode Rerelease: Dr. Seuss Warned Us

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.

State AGs Must Act: EFF Expands Call to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers

EFF’s Reflections from RightsCon 2025

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

EFF Joins 7amleh Campaign to #ReconnectGaza

The Foilies 2025

“Guardrails” Won’t Protect Nashville Residents From AI-Enabled Camera Networks

EFF to NSF: AI Action Plan Must Put People First

EFF Thanks Fastly for Donated Tools to Help Keep Our Website Secure

EFFecting Change: Is There Hope for Social Media?

EFF Joins AllOut’s Campaign Calling for Meta to Stop Hate Speech Against LGBTQ+ Community

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