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Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025. Though the concept has been around since 2018, this…

Defending encryption has long been a bedrock of our work. Without encryption, it’s impossible to have private conversations or private…

In 2025, elected officials across the country began treating surveillance technology purchases differently: not as inevitable administrative procurements handled by…

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

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,…

Each December we take a moment to publish a series of blog posts that look back at the things we’ve…

The world has been forced to bear the weight of billionaires and politicians who salivate over making tech more invasive,…

On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community…

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What a year it’s been. We’ve seen technology unfortunately misused to supercharge the threats facing democracy: dystopian surveillance, attacks on…

Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly sent a memo two weeks ago indicating how the federal government intends to target “domestic…