Our next EFFecting Change is all about breaking down how age verification laws work, who they exclude, and how these mandates threaten privacy and free expression for people of all ages. Join the livestream on January 15th so you can also take part in the live Q&A!
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EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification
Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for everyone—...
Age verification mandates are spreading rapidly, despite clear evidence that they do not work and actively harm the people they claim to protect. 2026 will be the year we push back harder.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Year States Chose Surveillance Over Safety: 2025 in Review
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 mandat...
Utah and California are the first states to step up to regulate how police use AI to write their reports. Who will be next?
Electronic Frontier Foundation
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated ...
Data breaches affect everyone, and in 2025 we saw plenty of them, ranging from the novel to the predictable.
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The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year
Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my info...
Tell companies to stop tracking you by installing Privacy Badger today!
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Privacy Badger
There’s never been a better time to learn what’s at stake and how to protect yourself from invasive age verification mandates. Head over to https://www.EFF.org/Age to explore our explainers, user-friendly guides, technical breakdowns, and advocacy tools. The fight to protect the internet begins with you.
If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all.
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Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the Terminology
Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. A...
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Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 to support digital privacy and free speech!
It’s time for Big Media and its friends to drop their quest for dangerous new site-blocking laws. But every time they bring it up, we’ll rally internet users of all stripes to fight it. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/site-blocking-laws-will-always-be-bad-idea-2025-review
If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips.
Want a security starter pack?
Start from the beginning with a selection of simple steps. Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us...