Users Worldwide Said “Stop Scanning Us”: 2022 in Review
By Joe Mullin The online conversations that bring us closer together can help build a world that’s more free, fair, and creative. But talking to…
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The Battle For Online Speech Moved To U.S. Courts: 2022 in Review
By Aaron Mackey and Joe Mullin EFF and our supporters have fought off numerous wrongheaded attempts by Congress to regulate online speech, including several that…
VICTORY! Apple Commits to Encrypting iCloud, Drops Phone-Scanning Plans
By Joe Mullin Apple has announced it will provide fully encrypted iCloud backups, meeting a longstanding demand by EFF and other privacy-focused organizations. We applaud…
Experts Condemn The UK Online Safety Bill As Harmful To Privacy And Encryption
By Joe Mullin The British Parliament may start debating the Online Safety Bill again as soon as this week. The bill is a deeply flawed…
The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
By Joe Mullin The UK government has had more than a year to revise its Online Safety Bill into a proposal that wouldn’t harm users’…
State by State, We’re Making Progress Against Anti-Speech Lawsuits
By Joe Mullin The First Amendment grants us all the right to say our piece. The government can’t shut down our rights to speak out,…
The EU Commission’s New Proposal Would Undermine Encryption And Scan Our Messages
By Joe Mullin The executive body of the European Union published today a legislative proposal (text) that, if it became law, would be a disaster…
Key Senators Have Voted For The Anti-Encryption EARN IT Act
By Joe Mullin Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill. We’re disappointed to see the committee advance this…
EFF Joins Activists And Human Rights Groups To Reject Attacks on Encryption
By Joe Mullin Encryption is under attack. In liberal democracies, elected leaders are giving lip service to our right to privacy—while seeking to create a…
It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
By Joe Mullin People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages—not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and…
The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.
By Joe Mullin This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency…
2021 Was the Year Lawmakers Tried to Regulate Online Speech
By Joe Mullin On the biggest internet platforms, content moderation is bad and getting worse. It’s difficult to get it right, and at the scale…
On Global Encryption Day, Let’s Stand Up for Privacy and Security
By Joe Mullin At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. It’s critical for our privacy and security online. That’s why we litigate in…
Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives
By Joe Mullin The dangerous EARN IT Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, and now it’s been introduced in the House of Representatives….