eff.org / .eff-org-updates / Page 2

2025 was the year age verification went from a fringe policy experiment to a sweeping reality across the United States. Half of the U.S. now mandates age verification for accessing adult content or social media platforms. Nine states saw their laws . ...

Our Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) guides, which provide practical advice and explainers for how to deal with government and corporate surveillance, had a big year. We published several large updates to existing guides and released three all new ...

In the name of 'protecting kids online,' Congress pushed forward legislation this year that could have severely undermined our privacy and stifled free speech. These bills would have mandated invasive age-verification checks for everyone online- ...

Lawmakers in at least a dozen states believe that they can pass laws blocking young people from social media or require them to get their parents' permission before logging on. Fortunately, nearly every trial court to review these laws has ruled that ...

Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible to grave abuses. Our research sparked state and .. ...

This year, we fought back against the return of a terrible idea that hasn't improved with age: site blocking laws. More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA--two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright . ...

You might not know it, given the many headlines focused on new questions about copyright and Generative AI, but the year's biggest copyright case concerned an old-for-the-internet question: do ISPs have to be copyright cops? If the Supreme Court ...

It's no secret that digital surveillance and other tech-enabled oppressions are acute dangers for liberation movement workers. The rising tides of tech-fueled authoritarianism and hyper-surveillance are universal themes across the various threat ...

EFF's attorneys, activists, and technologists don't just do the hard, endless work of defending our digital civil rights -- they also spend a lot of time and effort explaining that work to the public via media interviews. And EFF had thousands of ...

Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025, normalizing this invasive technology while incorporating AI and automated directions to replace human operators-- while integrating it into more real-time crime center structures. ...