Freedom Index#DigitalRights
Government invasion of a reporter’s home, and seizure of journalistic materials, is exactly the kind of abuse of power the…
EFF asked a California appeals court to uphold a lower court’s decision to strike a tech CEO’s lawsuit against a…
EFF last summer asked a federal judge to block the federal government from using Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants.…
ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also…
Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for…
This guide was co-written by Andrew Zuker with support from the Heinrich Boell Foundation. The U.S. government publishes volumes of…
Our Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) guides, which provide practical advice and explainers for how to deal with government and corporate surveillance,…
Lawmakers in at least a dozen states believe that they can pass laws blocking young people from social media or…
It’s no secret that digital surveillance and other tech-enabled oppressions are acute dangers for liberation movement workers. The rising tides…
In 2025, elected officials across the country began treating surveillance technology purchases differently: not as inevitable administrative procurements handled by…
This year, you may have heard EFF sounding off about our civil liberties on NPR, BBC Radio, or any number of…
A functioning patent system depends on one basic principle: bad patents must be challengeable. In 2025, that principle was repeatedly…