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Barry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF's president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Vermont and Pennsylvania ...

No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that's precisely the choice the Trump administration's mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in the U.S. Last fall, we sued on ...

EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state's constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by law enforcement in four cities.

EFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) ...

No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other defenders of free speech are fighting back. In our latest ...

In an extremely disappointing ruling, a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose, our case challenging the city of San Jose's warrantless searches of its vast stores of automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. EFF and the ACLU of ...

Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued the federal government.

In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data ...

EFF was thrilled to join organizers, advocates, and activists in the East Bay for the second annual Oakland Tech Week last week. We are grateful to our friends at MediaJustice and Upturn for inviting us co-present this all-day event, "Building Beyond ...

EFF strongly condemns Turkey's state-led discriminatory, oppressive attacks on feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations, media platforms, student groups, and rights defenders and activists within the country. Since mid-September, access to the websites and ...