If you’re a Californian, there are a few new state laws that you should know will be going into effect in the new year. EFF has worked hard in Sacramento this session to advance bills that protect ...

Age verification laws are rapidly proliferating around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about ...

The final EFFector of 2025 is here! Just in time to keep you up-to-date on the latests happenings in the fight for privacy and free speech online.In this latest issue, we're sharing how to spot sneaky ...

Ahead of today's Parliamentary petition debate on the Online Safety Act, EFF joined Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship in sending a briefing to UK politicians urging them to ...

Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. And those differences matter a lot when we're talking ...

Ahead of the UK Parliament convening to debate a petition signed by almost 2.9 million people calling for an end to the government’s plans to roll out a national digital ID, EFF and 12 other civil ...

A massive wave of public comments just told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): don’t shut the public out of patent review.EFF submitted its own formal comment opposing the USPTO’s proposed ...

Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for everyone—not just young people. Age-gating laws generally require ...

Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. Like all journalists and ...

POWER UP WEEK ENDS DECEMBER 9! Technology can uplift democracy, or it can be an authoritarian weapon. EFF is making sure it stays on the side of freedom and you can help. It’s Power Up Your Donation ...

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious ...