Publications

Anna’s Archive has had its fair share of domain troubles over the past two weeks. First, the site lost control over its original annas-archive.org domain after the U.S.-based Public Interest Registry (PIR) placed it on serverHold. PIR typically only...

Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental health. But according to Congress, Big Tech is somehow both the problem and the solution. The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today on “examining the effect of tech...

The Baton Rouge Police Department announced this week that it will begin using a drone designed by military equipment manufacturer Lockheed Martin and Edge Autonomy, making it one of the first local police departments to use an unmanned aerial vehicl...

EFF asked a California appeals court to uphold a lower court’s decision to strike a tech CEO’s lawsuit against a journalist that sought to silence reporting the CEO, Maury Blackman, didn’t like. The journalist, Jack Poulson, reported on Maury Blackma...

Government invasion of a reporter’s home, and seizure of journalistic materials, is exactly the kind of abuse of power the First Amendment is designed to prevent. It represents the most extreme form of press intimidation. Yet, that’s what happened o...

Institutions are failing. Confidence in government, big tech, and corporations has hit historic lows across Western civilisation. Banks are bailed out while the middle class languishes. Social media platforms censor speech arbitrarily. Central banks...

Since 2024, the Paris Judicial Court has expanded the typical piracy site blocking orders beyond Internet providers. Initially, rightsholders set their aim at DNS resolvers. This resulted in orders targeted at Cloudflare, Google, and others, requirin...

EFF last summer asked a federal judge to block the federal government from using Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. We also warned about the danger of the Trump administration consolidating all of the government’s information into a s...

The UK government planned “covert” measures to monitor “everything” which was said and written by Irish republican hunger strikers in prison in 1980, declassified files reveal. The strike had been called in response to the removal of political status...

The battle against online piracy takes place on many fronts. In addition to tackling infringing content at the source, copyright holders are increasingly focused on the platforms where these services are advertised and promoted. These advertisement...