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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….