EU candidate countries are lining up to integrate the EU's Digital Services Act. But are their institutions and laws ready in practice? A new IMS checklist breaks down what readiness actually requires…
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“We know that information that's been anonymized can very easily be reidentified,” EFF’s Tori Noble told Proof News. “[HIPAA] is not enough protection.” https://www.proofnews.org/womans-talkspace-ther…
NEW: Read how an unexpected visitor gave EFF the evidence to prove the government was secretly wiretapping Americans - an excerpt from Cindy Cohn’s book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Agai…
Join Cindy and Adam Savage as they discuss “Privacy’s Defender” at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club at 5:30pm PDT on Wednesday, May 13. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-05-13/fight-agains…
Transaction Denied, a new book by former EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman, explores the often-hidden practice of financial companies shuttering the accounts of online speakers who haven’t broken a…
W3C opened a Representative Office in China following approval by the W3C Board of Directors, to fulfill a primary role in legal compliance and to expand the reach of W3C’s existing Partner Beihang Un…
The FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group is seeking community input to help inform its priorities going forward. Since 2023, the Working Group has focused on identifying and addressing gaps that impact en…
“In the past, to get location data, law enforcement had to use a warrant approved by a judge,” Mario Trujillo told Prism. “Without that judicial oversight, these kinds of tools can be abused. People c…
@hopeconf is returning to Midtown, and today is the last day to have your ticket purchase support EFF. Ten percent of every HOPE 26 ticket purchased before midnight tonight will be donated to support …
Massachusetts's H.5349 is an unconstitutional censorship and surveillance mandate that will kick young people and adults alike off of social media while ruining their privacy and anonymity in the proc…
Part of the movement to reclaim social media? Here are some ways to limit your liability risk under U.S. copyright law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fedivers…
EFF contributed to the UN SR OPT consultation into attacks against Palestinian journalists and media workers, and destruction of media infrastructure. We discuss: government takedown requests, disinfo…
The Open Social Web’s kryptonite is the liability participants can face as intermediaries. Laws aiming to change Section 230 put decentralized projects in a uniquely precarious position. https://www.e…
California’s AB 1709 may be framed as a safety measure, but really it’s a blunt instrument of censorship that severs vital lifelines for California’s young people. Act now to stop this social media ba…
Free software offers trust and privacy; #Ring offers mass surveillance: https://u.fsf.org/4aw #Flock #privacy #surveillance
A #ThankGNU! to Podbielniak Giving Fund and Ramana Kumar for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom…
Organizing a #FreeSoftware meetup can be more fun with a buddy! Add your name to the #LibreLocal organizing page: https://u.fsf.org/4af
March in Servo… ➡️⌨️ tab and accesskey navigation 🔬🐞 see live values in the debugger 📝✅ better carets and form fields 📜📦 JS modules in web workers 😈🔱 Servo now runs on FreeBSD! https://servo.org/blog/20…
Supporting #FreeSoftware was more than enough of a reason for Henry Chaney to become a #FSF associate member: https://my.fsf.org/join
If you're driving in Texas, you may see one of these billboards. The reason? Texas deputies have already used Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation — and they tried to deny it.…