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Join EFF Lists Copyright (CC BY) Trademark Privacy Policy Thanks Electronic Frontier Foundation Donate If you use technology, this fight is yours.Donate today Electronic Frontier Foundation AboutContact Press People Opportunities IssuesFree Speech Privacy Creativity and Innovation Transparency International Security Artifical Intelligence Our WorkDeeplinks Blog Press Releases Events Legal Cases Whitepapers Podcast Annual Reports Take ActionAction Center Volunteer Follow EFF ToolsPrivacy Badger Surveillance Self-Defense Certbot Atlas of Surveillance Cover Your Tracks Street Level Surveillance apkeep Shop Donate DonateDonate to EFF Shop Giving Societies Sponsorships Other Ways to Give Membership FAQ The leading nonprofit defendingdigital privacy, free speech, and innovation.Donate The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. FEATURED UPDATE Victory! 702 has Expired! EFF has said for decades, every time this program is up for renewal: Section 702 should require a warrant before the Federal Bureau of Investigation can look at digital communications collected from Americans. If not, we should let the whole thing expire. FEATURED UPDATE Yes to California’s Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location . One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on scrutiny of these people’s respective personal data. Surveillance pricing is bad for privacy, equity, and price transparency. So EFF supports a California bill, S.B. 2564 , which would ban this creepy practice. How Surveillance... FEATURED UPDATE LGBT Q&A: We’re Back With Season 2!  Last June during Pride, we launched a new initiative— LGBT Q&A —where we answered your most pressing queer-related digital rights questions on EFF’s Instagram and TikTok accounts. No question was too big or too small! You asked us things like what pictures to use on dating apps; how to remove your name from internet searches; why homophobic content doesn’t get removed after you report it; and how to stay safe at Pride marches. And this year, we’re doing it all... If you use technology, this fight is yours.EFF defends your privacy and free expression because technology should serve all people, not just the powerful. We’re a nonprofit powered by members, and we need you in this fight.Donate Today! Banner Graphic: Resource Surveillance Self-Defense Issues Artificial Intelligence AI technologies are affecting our civil liberties as never before. Ensuring that AI serves people, not power, starts with cutting through the hype. AI technologies are not magic wands—they are general-purpose tools. If we want to regulate those technologies to reduce harms without shutting down benefits, we have... Storypage Privacy's Defender EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today’s Internet The Latest Deeplinks Blog by Tori Noble | June 17, 2026 The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful tools for locating, preserving, and analyzing online information. For example, crawling and scraping helps journalists, researchers, and watchdog organizations... Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 17, 2026 The NO FAKES Act Could Silence Satire, Commentary, And News The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to suppress commentary, satire, and other lawful speech. That’s why EFF has signed a letter urging the Senate Judiciary Committee not to advance the bill in its current... Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn | June 16, 2026 Onward, Friends After 26 years, today is my last day at EFF. It’s been a terrific and wild ride — the organization has grown from a tiny band of fighty people trying to plant a flag for freedom and justice in the coming digital world into a large, established band of fighty... Deeplinks Blog by Melissa Srago | June 15, 2026 EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, how platform policies and government pressure are reshaping the digital landscape, and what platform accountability actually looks like. Our... Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | June 12, 2026 Victory! 702 has Expired! EFF has said for decades, every time this program is up for renewal: Section 702 should require a warrant before the Federal Bureau of Investigation can look at digital communications collected from Americans. If not, we should let the whole thing expire. Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | June 11, 2026 Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on scrutiny of... Deeplinks Blog by Josh Richman | June 11, 2026 ‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers What do EFF staffers Sarah Chen, Javier Morales, Caitlin Chin, Emma Rodriguez, and Mikko Kopponen have in common? For one thing, they don’t exist. For another, all have been quoted... Deeplinks Blog by Paige Collings | June 11, 2026 LGBT Q&A: We’re Back With Season 2!  Last June during Pride, we launched a new initiative—LGBT Q&A—where we answered your most pressing queer-related digital rights questions on EFF’s Instagram and TikTok accounts. No question was too big or too small! You asked us things like what pictures to use on dating apps; how... Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | June 10, 2026 Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office, and not... Deeplinks Blog by Matthew Guariglia | June 10, 2026 The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust For months now, Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass surveillance authority Section 702 of FISA in hopes that some consensus could be reached. Now, with the deadline looming, the stakes have never been higher. Nearly every time the statute... More Updates Back to top Follow EFF: mastodon facebook instagram Blue Sky youtube flicker linkedin tiktok threads Check out our 4-star rating on Charity Navigator. 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