6+ hour, 40+ min ago  (494+ words) Legal intern Suzanne Castillo co-authored this post. Playstation’s decision to kill physical game discs is the latest attack on our diminishing rights to access and engage with culture digitally. Rent-seeking corporations and negligent lawmakers share the blame–and they can…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (161+ words) Black Girl Nerds (not EFF) will host this event. Find EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass and EFF Social Media and Video Manager Kenyatta Thomas at the event! Black Girl Nerds is hosting another meetup during San Diego Comic-Con 2026, and…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (452+ words) In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have. We are on the edge. What each one of us steps up…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (224+ words) This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here. But language disparities are just one of several concerns as automated moderation becomes more widespread. From the systemic suppression of content from Palestine to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (284+ words) This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers or training AI on private information without users…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1012+ words) Time and time again, researchers have found numerous compromised Android devices for sale at large online retailers like Amazon. When these devices get individually reported, we have seen some noted efforts to take them down. But this is a systemic…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (413+ words) The clearest tell that this is also a war on speech is that officials have aimed their efforts not just at abortion providers or the entities that prescribe and sell medication abortion, but also at websites that do nothing more…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (347+ words) This Rule Will Not Decrease Spam Calls The FCC gives away the true reason for this proposal in their own comments: this is a move to shut down the very existence of anonymous phones, aka burner phones. FCC says in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (728+ words) The package of cobbled-together bills is a mess, with different age-gating schemes for different services, using different standards. It’s a lot of complexity, and a lot of legal risk. Faced with that, many companies will conclude that the safest option…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (50+ words) Sold to the public as a foreign surveillance tool, Section 702 is the law has let intelligence agencies spy on millions of Americans’ private conversations without a warrant. Despite years of revelations about this law's misuse, Congress has repeatedly reauthorized Section…...