Privacy & Governance

EFF Testifies to Congress on Protecting Americans’ Rights from Government AI

Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Cons…

Move Fast, Surveil Things

Update, June 8, 2026: Following widespread public scrutiny and WIRED’s critical reporting, Meta has stripped the unactivated facia…

China-Linked TA4922 Expands Phishing Attacks to U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa

We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech—and Winning

EFF is on the front lines of the fight against tech-enabled tyranny, but we aren't alone. Our team depends on your help to fight b…

Welcome New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer

EFF welcomes our new Executive Director Nicole Ozer today!  Nicole is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intel…

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA's AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating

After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping age-brac…

Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare

In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for…

Proofpoint Introduces Active Exploits Protection to Help Organizations Prioritize Vulnerability Patching for Real-World Attacks in the AI Era

More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troub…

Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks

Proofpoint Integrates with the Claude Compliance API to Extend Data Security and Governance to Claude

🔒 A Win for Encrypted Messaging | EFFector 38.10

When it comes to keeping our texts, chats, and other digital messages safe from prying eyes, we have a powerful tool: end-to-end e…

Microsoft Took a Step Toward Human Rights Accountability. Google and Amazon (and Others) Should Pay Attention!

For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies…

Your Privacy Shouldn't Be A Corporate Decision

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would hav…

We Updated Our Privacy Policy. Here's What Changed and Why.

We recently updated our privacy policy for the first time since 2022. Most of the changes are clarifications, reorganizations, and…

We Must Not Normalize Digital Surveillance Abuses. EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.

Poor accountability, feeble control mechanisms, and insufficient legal frameworks have led to systematic human rights violations i…

Help EFF Solve an Issue That's Bigger than Creepy Ads

Millions of people around the world use EFF's Privacy Badger. This browser extension blocks the hidden trackers that twist your we…

The Science is Not Settled: How Weak Evidence is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth

As statehouses ramp up for 2026, we’re seeing a familiar and concerning trend of lawmakers rushing to regulate the internet based…

Broken Promises: RIP Instagram’s End-to-End Encrypted DMs

Last week, Instagram ended its opt-in, and therefore rarely used, end-to-end encryption feature. Years after publicly promising to…

Proofpoint Launches Dedicated MSP Business Unit and Introduces 365 Total Protection for North America

Victory! End-to-End Encrypted RCS Comes to Apple and Android Chats

This week, Apple released iOS 26.5, an update that supports end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS), meaning c…

EFF Launches New Offline Campaign for Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid

Osama Khalid was just twelve years old when he began contributing to Wikipedia Arabic. In the height of the blogging era, he becam…

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns

Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impac…

Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” Th…

EFF to Fourth Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

EFF, along with the national ACLU, the ACLU affiliates in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the National…

EFF Stands in Solidarity With RightsCon and the Global Digital Rights Community

When governments shut down spaces for dialogue, dissent, and collective organizing, the damage extends far beyond a single event.…

The spy who logged me in.

Congress Narrowed the GUARD Act, But Serious Problems Remain

Following criticism, lawmakers have narrowed the GUARD Act, a bill aimed at restricting minors’ access to certain AI systems. The…

Free Signal Guide

EFF friend Guy Kawasaki* has written a book: Everybody Has Something to Hide: Why and How to Use Signal to Preserve Your Privacy,…

Milestone 1.0.0 Release of APK Downloader `apkeep` Powers Research on Android Apps

Last week, we released apkeep version 1.0.0, the latest edition of our command-line Android package downloading software. Rather t…