The so-called TikTok ban “has only resulted in turning over the platform to the allies of a president who seems to have no respect for the First Amendment,” EFF’s @npub124we...wttl told the @The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/23/tiktok-sale-investors-china-ellison/
Meta’s rules for “Dangerous Organizations and Individuals” were supposed to be narrow—but over the years, we’ve seen these rules applied in far broader and more troubling ways, most recently in this story about reproductive health care.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Companies Must Provide Accurate and Transparent Information to Users When Posts are Removed
At a time when access to abortion information is already under political attack in the United States and around the world, platforms must be especi...
“What we see with police surveillance technology in general is that there’s a lot of lip service paid up front to the privacy concerns, but then there is mission creep that happens,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Bloomberg Opinion.
Bloomberg.com
The Future of Drones Is Policing, Not Delivering Packages
The small flying machines can be a powerful law enforcement tool as long as privacy can be safeguarded.
Meta admits that some categories of speech aren’t eligible for recommendation. Abortion content doesn’t clearly fit those rules, but content creators who use their platforms to spread educational information about abortion are feeling the consequences of being shadowbanned anyway.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Going Viral vs. Going Dark: Why Extremism Trends and Abortion Content Gets Censored
BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 22, 2025This is the fourth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abor...
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six years, state media and his family say.
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.
Drones from Flock Safety are also flying ALPR cameras, a terribly dangerous combo for privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car
Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enfo...
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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...
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you.
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the ...
Want safer tech? It starts with real consent.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dating Apps Need to Learn How Consent Works
Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws s...
Zero‑Knowledge Proofs let users prove they are over 18 without exact birthdates, but they don’t stop verifiers from collecting information like your IP address. These alone aren’t enough to protect privacy and shouldn’t be pushed forward without proper protections in place.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online co...