Both Windows and Mac computers include a free way to encrypt your entire storage drive. You should turn it on, if you haven't already.
How to: Encrypt Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer
Encrypting your computer's storage drive is a simple, but powerful tool to secure your data. When enabled, "full-disk" encryption (also known as de...
When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host con...
EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down. What did we find? Over and over again, the policies say one thing, but the actual enforcement says another.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis
For months, EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down or otherwise suppressed by major socia...
Learn what makes Privacy Badger, our free browser extension to stop companies from spying on you, different from other “ad blockers.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy Badger
“It is troubling that corporate interests are spying on activists who are trying to protect the public from the actions of these corporations,” EFF’s [@Adam_D_Schwartz](
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Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry - DeSmog
“We urge platforms to not voluntarily comply with these (ICE) requests before any enforcement proceeding is initiated,” EFF’s @David Greene (no not that one) told @npub1s89f...rdtv - without enforcement, “the platform is under no legal obligation to do anything.”
The Intercept
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Summer 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of February 15. See below for instructions and a link to the applicatio...
“This extension and expansion of ICE’s PenLink contract underlines the federal government’s enthusiasm for indiscriminate and warrantless data collection on as many people as possible,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Forbes.
Forbes
ICE Just Spent Millions On Surveillance Tech Banned By Facebook
ICE has spent over $5 million on social media and dark web monitoring software that critics say enables warrantless surveillance.
Unequal enforcement of Meta’s content policies and the time people spend in “content jail” is silencing speech. The chilling effect is real. It’s time for Meta to live up to its claims of supporting free expression.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of “Content Jail”
BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025This is the second installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abor...
EFF compiled dozens of cases in which abortion-related information was censored from social media sites, and “we found that almost none of the reported posts actually violated any policies,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told Jezebel.
Jezebel
Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media
A new report reveals nearly 100 instances of anti-abortion censorship across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn.