This year, like almost all years before, LGBTQ+ Pride month is taking place at a time of burgeoning anti-LGBTQ+ violence, harassment, and criticism. Lawmakers and regulators are passing legislation restricting freedom of expression and privacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and fueling offline intolerance. Online platforms are also complicit in...
Just in time for summer, EFFector is back—with a brand new look! If you're not signed up, now's a perfect time to subscribe and get the latest details on EFF's work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online.EFFector 37.6 highlights an important role that EFF has...
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where critics, hackers, oppressive regimes, and others seem to have the free press in their crosshairs? ...
This event has passed. You can watch the recording on YouTube or the Internet Archive.Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the...
Secure Justice (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Senior Staff Technologist Bill Budington will be speaking.Bill Budington, Senior Staff Technologist at EFF, will be speaking at the privacy workshops covering smartphone, laptop, online, and vehicle data security and easy-to-understand technical privacy-protecting...
AI is rapidly reshaping policing—sometimes in ways even police themselves don't fully understand. From AI-powered facial recognition leading to wrongful arrests to automated systems drafting police reports, these technologies...
EBU (not EFF) will host this event. EFF's Paige Collings will be speaking.From the Organizers: The annual EBU Media Cybersecurity Seminar is the only industry event focusing on cybersecurity for media in general and public service media in particular. It assembles...
Once again, EFF is excited to be back at the Tuscany Suites & Casino for BSides Las Vegas. Come see us at the now 2.5 day annual infosec and hacker conference from Monday, August 4- Wednesday, August 6!Stop by the EFF booth to chat with some of our team...
Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Third Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 33 hosted by security expert Tarah Wheeler.Please join us on Friday, August 8th, at high noon at our new location: Planet Hollywood...
For the third time since October 2023, Gaza has faced a near-total telecommunications blackout—plunging over 2 million residents into digital darkness and isolating them from the outside world. According to Palestinian digital rights organization 7amleh, the latest outage began on June 11, 2025, and lasted three days before partial...
With this week’s release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people—like journalists, activists, or politicians—should consider turning it on. Here’s what it does, and how to decide if it’s a good fit for your security needs.To get some confusing naming...
This post was written by EFF legal intern Alexa Chavara.Black box technology has no place in the criminal legal system. That’s why we’ve once again filed an amicus brief arguing that the both the defendant and the public have a right to information regarding face recognition technology (FRT) that was...
Safety matters—but so do privacy, access to information, and the fundamental rights of all users. We urge the Commission to avoid endorsing disproportionate, one-size-fits-all technical solutions. Instead, we recommend user-empowering approaches.
U.S. sanctions on Syria have for several decades not only restricted trade and financial transactions, they’ve also severely limited Syrians’ access to digital technology. Syrians have been locked out of the global internet economy—stifling innovation, education, and entrepreneurship.
