Tech & Big Tech

This year, you may have heard EFF sounding off about our civil liberties on NPR, BBC Radio, or any number of…

Age verification mandates won’t magically keep young people safer online, but that has not stopped governments around the world spending…

A tidal wave of copyright lawsuits against AI developers threatens beneficial uses of AI, like creative expression, legal research, and…

As reproductive rights face growing attacks globally, access to content about reproductive healthcare and abortion online has never been more…

A functioning patent system depends on one basic principle: bad patents must be challengeable. In 2025, that principle was repeatedly…

State legislatures—from Olympia, WA, to Honolulu, HI, to Tallahassee, FL, and everywhere in between—kept EFF’s state legislative team busy throughout…

Across ideologically diverse communities, 2025 campaigns against automated license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance kept winning. From Austin, Texas to Cambridge,…

It’s been a great year to be on EFF’s membership team. There’s no better feeling than hanging out with your fellow digital freedom supporters and being…

State and federal lawmakers have introduced multiple proposals in 2025 to curtail or outright block children and teenagers from accessing…

from the ghosts-of-christmas-past dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Congress sold out to Hollywood yet again by sneaking…

from the support-techdirt-and-feel-good-about-it dept We’re a few weeks into our end of year crowdfunding campaign—donate $100 or more (check out…

from the but-the-good-stuff-works-too-well! dept While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial…