Favorite Hacker Summer Camp is almost here… and with it comes the Third Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 33 hosted by security expert Tarah Wheeler. Please join us at the same place and time as last year: Friday, August 8th, at high noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room. The fees haven’t changed; it’s…
Connectivity is a Lifeline, Not a Luxury: Telecom Blackouts in Gaza Threaten Lives and Digital Rights
Favorite For the third time since October 2023, Gaza has faced a near-total telecommunications blackout—plunging over 2 million residents into digital darkness and isolating them from the outside world. According to Palestinian digital rights organization 7amleh, the latest outage began on June 11, 2025, and lasted three days before partial service was restored on June…
A New Digital Dawn for Syrian Tech Users
Favorite U.S. sanctions on Syria have for several decades not only restricted trade and financial transactions, they’ve also severely limited Syrians’ access to digital technology. From software development tools to basic cloud services, Syrians were locked out of the global internet economy—stifling innovation, education, and entrepreneurship. EFF has for many years pushed for sanctions exemptions…
EFFecting Change: Pride in Digital Freedom
Favorite Join us for our next EFFecting Change livestream this Thursday! We’re talking about emerging laws and platform policies that affect the digital privacy and free expression rights of the LGBT+ community, and how this echoes the experience of marginalized people across the world. EFFecting Change Livestream Series:Pride in Digital FreedomThursday, June 12th4:00 PM – 5:00…
Congress Can Act Now to Protect Reproductive Health Data
Favorite State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly concerned about the harms they believe the internet and new technology are causing to users of all categories. Lawmakers are currently considering many proposals that are intended to provide protections to the most vulnerable among us. Too often, however, those proposals do not carefully consider the likely…
Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe
Favorite A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829), which would undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content. TAKE ACTION Tell Congress Not to Outlaw Encrypted Apps…
Despite Changes, A.B. 412 Still Harms Small Developers
Favorite California lawmakers are continuing to promote a bill that will reinforce the power of giant AI companies by burying small AI companies and non-commercial developers in red tape, copyright demands and potentially, lawsuits. After several amendments, the bill hasn’t improved much, and in some ways has actually gotten worse. If A.B. 412 is passed,…
Feds Seek “Unprecedented” Sentence Boost for CIA Leaker, Leaning on His Use of Signal
Favorite Top U.S. Justice Department officials are worried that Asif William Rahman, a former CIA analyst who leaked reports about Israel’s plans for a strike on Iran, isn’t going to get a harsh enough sentence. That’s why, his defense lawyers said, the government is making an “unprecedented” request for Rahman to get a sentence 50…
Investing in Open Source sustainability: OSI supports Open Forum Europe’s EU Sovereign Tech Fund proposal
Favorite As the European Union (EU) prepares its budget for the coming years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has endorsed a proposal by Open Source think tank “Open Forum Europe” to create an EU Sovereign Tech Fund. The fund, modeled on the German Sovereign Tech fund, would support maintenance and development of key Open Source…
35 Years for Your Freedom Online
Favorite Once upon a time we were promised flying cars and jetpacks. Yet we’ve arrived at a more complicated timeline where rights advocates can find themselves defending our hard-earned freedoms more often than shooting for the moon. In tough times, it’s important to remember that your vision for the future can be just as valuable…