The European Commission (EC) is considering a “Digital Omnibus” package that would substantially rewrite EU privacy law, particularly the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s not a done deal, and it shouldn’t be.
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EU's New Digital Package Proposal Promises Red Tape Cuts but Guts GDPR Privacy Rights
The European Commission (EC) is considering a “Digital Omnibus” package that would substantially rewrite EU privacy law, particularly the landm...
Join EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock along with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience for our next EFFecting Change stream about what we stand to lose as more governments push to age-gate the web.
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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—...
Big thank you to everyone who participated in our AMA on the harms of age-verification mandates over on Reddit’s r/privacy this week. We got some really good questions—did we answer any of yours? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/comment/nuwpiui/
From photo IDs and selfies to social security numbers and location information, data breaches hit a wide variety of companies this year.
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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...
It may often feel like the whole idea of protecting yourself online is too big of an issue to tackle. But we can take small steps to better protect our own privacy, as well as to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world.
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Privacy Loves Company
Most of the internet’s blessings—the opportunities for communities to connect despite physical borders and oppressive controls, the avenues to ...
It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face.
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Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender People
Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under ...
Data breaches affect everyone, and this year 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...
Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist in-person when a bartender just glances at your ID.
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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, wh...
EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between.
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How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local a...
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences.
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Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should h...